Christ Chapel Academy to compete in National Youth Cyber Defense Competition

For Immediate Release

October 14, 2014

Christ Chapel Academy to compete in National Youth Cyber Defense Competition

Woodbridge, VA – Christ Chapel Academy announced today its participation in the seventh season of CyberPatriot’s National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. Beginning in October 2014, students from the High School out of Woodbridge, VA will compete in the Open Division against similar teams across the country. This is the second straight year Christ Chapel Academy will be competing.

CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association to inspire high school and middle school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our nation’s future. The program features an annual online and in-person competition, in which teams across the United States and Canada, as well as from Department of Defense Dependent Schools abroad compete in a series of online rounds for a chance to earn an all-expenses-paid trip to the CyberPatriot National Finals Competition in Washington, DC in the spring. Their students have the opportunity to win scholarships and network with industry leaders.

[Quote from Coach Deborah Palmer: The Students are currently enrolled in the iForCE Cybersecurity Education Program and this gives them the opportunity to practice the skills they have learned as well as advance their potential within an innovative, exciting STEM and IT environment.

CyberPatriot greatly benefits from the support and technical expertise of its presenting sponsor, the

Northrop Grumman Foundation. Other sponsors include Cyber Diamond sponsors AT&T Federal and the

AT&T Foundation, Cisco, Microsoft, USA Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the

Office of the Secretary of Defense; Cyber Gold sponsors URS, Splunk, Symantec, and Riverside Research; and Cyber Silver sponsors Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Leidos, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and University of Maryland University College.

More information is available at www.uscyberpatriot.org or from the CyberPatriot staff at info@uscyberpatriot.org.

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association. Our mission is to promote a dominant United States Air Force and a strong national defense, and to honor Airmen and our Air Force Heritage. To accomplish this, we:

§ EDUCATE the public on the critical need for unmatched aerospace power and a technically superior workforce to ensure U.S. national security.

§ ADVOCATE for aerospace power and STEM education.

§ SUPPORT the Total Air Force family and promote aerospace education.

AFA has 200 chapters nationally and internationally representing more than 100,000 members. Visit AFA

at www.afa.org.