Huntsville High School’s Open Division team, along with Lee/New Century Technology High Schools’ All Service team, and the Challenger Middle School’s team are State Champions in the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition for the 2018-2019 season.  Huntsville City Schools earned a clean sweep in the Middle School and Open divisions with all three place earners being district schools.  In the All Service division, the top two teams are district schools.

CyberPatriot the 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 critical to our nation's future. ​

At the center of CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. 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.  Top teams from Huntsville City Schools have earned a spot in the National Semi-Final on February 3^rd, 2019 which gives them a chance to qualify for the National Finals held in the Baltimore area in April.

CyberPatriot Alabama State Standings:

Open Division

First Place:  Huntsville - Huntsville City, Coach Jim Morse

Second Place:  Grissom - Huntsville City, Coach Richard Kitchings

Third Place:  Lee/New Century - Huntsville City, Coach Thomas Archer

All Service Division

First Place:  Lee/New Century - Huntsville City, Coach Diane Richie

Second Place:  Grissom - Huntsville City, Coach Johnnie Richardson

Third Place:  Hazel Green - Hazel Green, Coach Cameron Case

Middle School Division

First Place:  Challenger - Huntsville City, Coach Teri Mitchell

Second Place:  Challenger - Huntsville City, Coach Teri Mitchell

Third Place:  Hampton Cove - Huntsville City, Coach Vivian Johnson

Official standings were released January 24, 2019 at http://uscyberpatriot.org/competition/current-competition/scores

Look for information on an Awards Ceremony to honor these students coming soon!

Lockheed Martin’s new STEM Scholarship Program is now open for applications through March 12, 2019.

• The program is open to high school and college undergraduate students planning to pursue a major in engineering or computer science.
• This program has significant scale with up to 1,000 students each receiving $10,000 annually. When the program is running at full capacity, we will be awarding $10 million in scholarships annually.
• Mentoring opportunities will be a key component of the program, and recipients will be eligible for a Lockheed Martin internship following their freshman year of college.
• The application is administered by Scholarship America, an organization with more than 60 years of experience designing and managing scholarship programs.
• To see detailed eligibility requirements and the application, visit https://lockheedmartin.com/scholarship. Questions about eligibility and the selection process can be answered by Scholarship America.

 

Huntsville, AL - A new state magnet school is being established in Huntsville. The Alabama School of Cyber & Engineering Foundation will be handling donations and local contributions for the project. 

AeroJet Rocketdyne donated $5,400 to the ASCE Foundation to assist with the development of vision and concepts in support of Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering.   John Myers, Vice President, Finance Operations and Carla Broussard, Director, Strategy, Marketing, and Community Ventures at Aerojet Rocketdyne presented the check to ASCE Foundation President Alicia Ryan and Board Members at a reception on November 12, 2018.

In 2020, it will start 10 & 11 grade with 50 students in each class. In the second year, 9th grade will be added. And it will continue to expand until it goes from 7-12th grade. 

"We need the support from our community if we're going pull to this together and get it open in 2020. We need industry to stand up and take a stand to help us create a technology-driven high school," Ryan stressed. "It's exciting to me to see children who didn't even know they had these abilities and now they have the access to the right people to help teach it to them." 

 

For more information on how you can donate infor@cyberhuntsville.org

 

  

 

Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States September 2018

On July 21, 2017, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 13806 on Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States.

The EO directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a whole-of-government effort to assess risk, identify impacts, and propose recommendations in support of a healthy manufacturing and defense industrial base – a critical aspect of economic and national security.

Read the full report Executive Order 13806 Industrial Base Report

 

The National Cyber Summit conducts a Cyber Cup Challenge each year on show floor at the Von Braun Center, South Hall.  The challenge brings in students and professionals interested in the field of cybersecurity to test their skills and have an opportunity to win cash prizes.

Read the rest of the article from The City of Huntsville.

The FBI is working with state agencies to build a multi-million dollar computer forensics lab at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. The lab will be the first of its kind in the southeast.

Read this Article at AL.com.

A new lab specializing in digital forensics will break ground in Huntsville. This will be the only lab of its kind on a military installation.

Read the rest of this article at WHNT News 19.

Huntsville will be home to a new state magnet school in 2020. Alabama legislators passed a bill to green light the build of the school, which will be the third of its kind. The school will begin with 10th and 11th graders and eventually expand to 7th-12th grade.

Read the rest of the article at WAFF 48 News.

Cyber Huntsville is working with the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and the University of Alabama in Huntsville to develop a U.S. Cyber Camp for high school students.

Read the article at WAFF 48 News.

Learn more about the camp here.

Click here to watch an interview with Pat Sullivan, VP of Cyber Camp and Cyber Huntsville.