PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps CyberPatriot Team will compete in a multistate contest in January after winning at the state level.
The team won the state round of the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Education Program, held at the high school, on Dec. 6.
Team members competed against several hundred JROTC, Sea Cadet and high school academy teams from throughout the state during the six-hour contest.
They were given a set of virtual images that represented operating systems and were asked to find “cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the images and hardening the system while maintaining critical services,” according to the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Education Program website, www.uscyberpatriot.org.
Headed to finals
The top teams in the nation earn all-expenses-paid trips to Washington, D.C., for the National Finals Competition, where they can earn national recognition and scholarship money.
The CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Education Program was created by the Air Force Association to inspire high school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
