Ponus Ridge's "De-TECH-tives" Place 2nd in CyberPatriot Competition State Round
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Ponus Ridge
Congratulations to the Ponus Ridge STEAM Academy “De-TECH-tives”!
This talented team of student coders placed second in the state round of the CyberPatriot Competition, their best performance to date! Great job representing Ponus and NPS on the digital stage!
CyberPatriot's National Youth Cyber Defense Competition is the world's largest cybersecurity competition. The competition challenges teams of high school and middle school students to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual operating systems.
Using a proprietary competition system, teams are scored on how secure they make the system. Top teams advance through the online round of competition, and the best of the best advance to the in-person National Finals Competition.