skills and knowledge.
competitions and challenges.
Timeline.
History of Norwich Univeristy.
core abilities and life skills.
100

This skill, focused on guiding and motivating others, is learned during Years 2, 3, and 4.

What is Leadership Development?

100

This competition helps JROTC cadets build academic skills while learning the importance of leadership and teamwork.

What is the JROTC Leadership and Academic Bowl?

100

In this year, the National Defense Act was passed, allowing the federal government to loan military equipment to schools to support JROTC programs.

What is 1916?

100

This man founded the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont, in 1818, which later became Norwich University.

Who is Captain Alden Partridge?

100

By engaging in community service, you help develop this trait, which is critical for good citizenship and includes being honest, responsible, and respectful.

What is Character?

200

This concept, learned every year, helps students grow emotionally and socially by improving their behavior, self-discipline, and confidence.

What is Personal Growth and Behaviors?

200

In this one-week residential program, JROTC cadets engage in STEM labs and interact with college-level professors and students.

What is the JROTC STEM Program?

200

In this year, female cadets were officially allowed to join JROTC.

What is 1973?

200

Captain Partridge believed that a good education wasn’t complete without learning how to do this – a skill that was a major focus at his academy.

What is Military Training?

200

One of the most rewarding aspects of community service is experiencing this feeling, which comes from helping others and making a positive impact.

What is Satisfaction (fulfillment)?

300

JROTC students practice this process in Years 1, 2, and 3 to help them make good choices and solve problems.

What is decision making?

300

In this competition, cadets demonstrate their precision and discipline in both regulation and exhibition drills.

What is the Drill Competition?

300

By this year, the number of JROTC units had grown to 1,709 across the country.

What is 2017?

300

In addition to military training and math, cadets at Captain Partridge’s academy also studied five types of this subject, which helps people understand laws and government.

What is Law?

300

Through JROTC and community service, cadets learn how to work together to achieve a common goal, developing this key skill.

What is Teamwork?

400

JROTC teaches students to work together and achieve common goals in this area, which is emphasized throughout all four years.

What is team building?

400

This program gives cadets a hands-on opportunity to practice leadership and teamwork skills in a real-world, leadership-focused setting.

What is the JROTC Cadet Leadership Challenge?

400

This act, passed in 1964, expanded the JROTC program to include branches of the military other than the Army.

What is the Revitalization Act of 1964?

400

Along with military training, cadets at Captain Partridge's academy studied ten different types of this subject.

What is Mathematics?

400

Participating in community service projects helps you develop this essential skill, which includes motivating and guiding others.

What is Leadership?

500

This is the focus of health and fitness in JROTC, which is taught throughout all four years to keep students strong and healthy.

What is Physical Fitness?

500

This competitive marksmanship program helps cadets build teamwork, self-confidence, and a strong sense of esprit de corps.

What is the Air Rifle Competition?

500

The passage of the National Defense Act of 1916 led to the establishment of this number of JROTC units across the United States.

What is 6?

500

Captain Partridge’s idea of combining military training with regular education was so successful that it spread to other schools across the U.S. This is the program that was influenced by his vision.

What is JROTC?

500

The life skills developed in JROTC, like problem-solving and responsibility, are often called this.

What are Core Abilities?