Cycersecurity Students Advance In Competition

UNION CITY, CA — A group of 16 James Logan High School students are building skills for the future workforce. The school's computer science program added a class in Cybersecurity this year and created four teams to compete in the Air Force's CyberPatriot competition.

CyberPatriot is a National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association (AFA) to inspire K-12 students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. According to their website, here's how it works, "The competition puts teams of high school and middle school students in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. In the rounds of competition, teams are given a set of virtual images that represent operating systems and are tasked with finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the images and hardening the system while maintaining critical services in a six hour period. Teams compete for the top placement within their state and region, and the top teams in the nation earn all-expenses paid trips to Baltimore, MD for the National Finals Competition where they can earn national recognition and scholarship money."

Even though this is the first year that Logan has competed, three of the teams are continuing to the Gold Tier Semi-Finals.

According tot he school district, during the State Round, Logan Team 1 finished third in the state in the Gold Tier. They placed ahead of over 200 other California Gold High School teams.

Here's a roster of Logan's CyberPatriot Team members:

• Arabella Abad
• Riya Arora
• Alyssa Barrientos
• Ho Chan
• Breanna Dulay
• Garima Gupta
• Mili Gupta
• Tara Len
• Jordan Magat
• Albert Pei
• Gabriel Ramirez
• Ritvik Seshadri
• Aamani Sharma
• Vinh Tran
• Amar Waraich
• Victor Zhang

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