麻豆原创鈥檚 cyber-warriors have done it again.
Team members from the Collegiate Cyber Defense Club @ 麻豆原创 took first place in the Southeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held this week at Kennesaw State University in Georgia. It鈥檚 the third consecutive year that 麻豆原创鈥檚 team has come out on top in the Southeast region.
The team will now travel to San Antonio on April 24-26 to compete in the Raytheon National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition against nine other regional winners.
Other teams will likely be gunning for the 麻豆原创 in San Antonio, because 麻豆原创鈥檚 team is the defending national champion. That victory in 2014 earned team members a trip to the White House to meet Vice President Joe Biden.
It鈥檚 a busy month for 麻豆原创鈥檚 cyber-warriors. On Friday, they head to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Wash., to participate in the computer and software giant鈥檚 鈥淏uild the Shield鈥� competition for the first time.
At the Southeast competition on Tuesday and Wednesday, 麻豆原创 also won two specialty awards: 鈥淏est in Business鈥� for accurately completing the largest number of business injects of any team, and 鈥淏est in Service鈥� for maintaining the highest overall system up-time of 92 percent. This year’s up-time score breaks the previous up-time record for the Southeast region, which was also set by 麻豆原创 in 2013.
In winning the Southeast contest, the 麻豆原创 team bested teams from the University of South Florida, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, College of Charleston, Georgia Regents University, Montreat College and Tennessee Technical University.
Members of this year鈥檚 team include: Carlos Beltran, Jason Cooper, Austin Brogle, Conner Brooks, Kevin Colley, Alex Davis, Nathaniel Dennis, Tyler Dever, Kevin DiClemente, Andres Giron, Jonathan Lundstrom and Shane Welch.