I got a phone call yesterday from the West Point public affairs office letting me know that a TV team would be filming in my classroom this morning. They were following cadet Will Sullivan, a first classman (senior) who is on the football team.

As it happened, what I had scheduled for the day was impromptu "stand up" briefings on the project work the cadet teams had done this term. (The course is SE450 Project Management and System Design, an integrative project course for non-Systems Engineering majors. The cadets use a structured project approach based mainly on multiple objective decision analysis and some basic computer simulation techniques.) Will briefed the implementation plan his team devised for their recommended sensor package to put on High Altitude Airships for battlefield reconnaisance. Three other cadets presented the implementation plans for their projects, as well.

I think the resulting spot will run on CNN sometime in the day or so before the Army-Navy football game this weekend. As soon as I hear details, I'll post them here. There's a good chance no footage from my own classroom will be aired -- they followed several cadets for 2 days -- but it should be an interesting window into life at the Point in any case.