Over the winter, John Bapst’s Cyber Defense team was working hard on the CyberPatriot challenge – hard work which paid off as the teams won the State Award for the Air Force Association’s competition for the for having the highest scoring “Open Division” team in Maine.
The contest, which had three rounds of challenges in November, December, and Jaunary, is designed to give hands on exposure to the foundations of cyber security. The competition’s purpose is to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
In each competition round, students are provided one to three virtual machines. These machines contain several vulnerabilities, and students must clean the image of them. The virtual machines can have Windows or GNU/Linux Operating systems. They are given a set amount of time on the competition day to do so. The goal is to find the most vulnerabilities within the system.
The students who participated in the contest (both teams were combined and awarded the State Award) are:
Team 1
Isaac Webb
Bethany Waanders
Noah Phillips
Melissa Smith
Douglas Kaelin
Brian Roy
Caleb Chesley
Leland Mushrall
Team 2
Noah Potvin
Frank Wu
Kyle Kenney
Owen Leaden
Malcolm Laughlin
John Parrick
Jensen Yu