With more than 415 teams in 47 states already being organized,
educators across the country are securing their spot in the nation’s largest
and fastest growing high school cyber defense competition, CyberPatriot V!
CyberPatriot is a team-based activity, where
students learn to defend a computer network from real-life computer threat
scenarios. Among those now registered are also teams
from U.S. Department of Defense Dependent Schools in Korea and Italy, and teams
from the Manitoba Province of Canada. Iowa, Montana, and South Dakota are the
only U.S. states yet to be represented.
AFA President Michael Dunn (left) and Executive
Director of U.S. Naval Sea Cadet Corps Jim Monahan (right) signing the MoU for the Sea Cadets' participation in CyberPatriot V |
The United
States Naval Sea Cadet Corps is a U.S. Navy-based organization that serves to
teach individuals 13 to 17 years old about the sea-going military services,
U.S. Naval operations and training, community service, citizenship, and an
understanding of discipline and teamwork. For more than 50 years, the mission
of the Naval Sea Cadet Corps has been to provide American youth with leadership
abilities through hands-on training.
CyberPatriot
IV saw more than 1,000 teams register. Top winners from each division received more
than $50,000 in college scholarships from the Northrop Grumman Foundation,
CyberPatriot’s presenting sponsor. Other CyberPatriot sponsors include founding
partners SAIC and CIAS at the University of Texas-San Antonio, as well as
AT&T, Boeing, General Dynamics, Microsoft, Raytheon, the Air Force Research
Laboratory, MIT-Lincoln Laboratory, Cisco, URS and K2Share.
Registration
for CyberPatriot V closes on September 30, 2012. Learn more about CyberPatriot and
sign up at www.uscyberpatriot.org (or from the CyberPatriot staff at info@uscyberpatriot.org).
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