Instructors from the U.S. Military Academy can attest, profoundly, to the saying “show, don’t tell.” The act of leadership and its description are not always one and the same, as the officers would put it. It is not enough to simply bark orders or appear as if a person knows what they are doing. As Maj. Will Fuller would explain, a true leader not only “talks the talk,” as it were, but takes the proverbial leap into the unknown to show their cadets how to navigate uncertainty. ...

It was November 2008, during the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS). Robert Shane Kimbrough, U.S. Military Academy Class of 1989 graduate and National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronaut, went on his first space flight to the ISS. Class of 2022 Cadet Zachary Kimbrough was 8 years old at the time and could not fathom the magnitude of his father’s interstellar journey. ...

The weekends usually mean a time to catch up on sleep and relax before the next week ahead. For nearly 1,500 cadets, staff and faculty at the U.S. Military Academy, the weekend for them meant an opportunity to participate in the grueling Norwegian Foot March over the course of several days on April 3, 11 and 25. ...

When Gen. Douglas MacArthur articulated the phrase “Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields, will bear the fruits of victory,” it fundamentally gets to the heart of being a competitor, through character, that goes beyond winning and losing, and the lessons learned through athletics leads to a confident, competent officer who has the mental and moral qualities to be a great leader on the battlefield. ...

To discover breakthroughs in engineering and give way to innovation in the military, the Warfighter Innovation and Science and Engineering (WISE) Challenge is the competing grounds in which the U.S. Naval, Coast Guard and Air Force Academies showcased projects they developed within the realm of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) throughout the academic year. As the U.S. Service Academies worked hard on their respective projects to win first prize, creating a distinct, pioneering technology that is service-specific or joint mission-related was their ultimate goal and was displayed on Monday at West Point. ...

The streets of Little Haiti gave him his bearings. He knew the neighborhood well enough, at a young age, to avoid the stereotypical traps that landed his father in prison and kept his old friends stuck in the slums of Miami. ...

The Academy Research Council and the Center for Enhanced Performance presented the 2021 Outstanding Pitch Award to three cadets April 13 at the Jefferson Hall Library. ...

Where does creative genius come from to produce artistic brilliance? It commences in the moment where ingenuity strikes from the deep recesses of the mind to the juncture when originality becomes an intellectual asset. For every artist of any form, the diligent work of the craft is worth every bead of sweat from the brow when the world positively recognizes the invested, exceptional outcome. ...

How do you host what is traditionally a four-day, on-site conference at West Point during a global pandemic? Through a virtual Microsoft Teams event, of course. ...

The Microsoft Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS), in coordination with the U.S. Military Academy, performed a multi-day data collection exercise to enhance and train the IVAS device Squad Immersive Virtual Trainer (SiVT) AI-powered environmental mapping and device positional-tracking technology March 18-22 and April 8-12 at Range 16....