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Gannon University is proud to be a CyberPatriot Cyber Partner for the 2024-2025 competition season! CyberPatriot's National Youth Cyber Defense Competition is the world's largest cybersecurity competition and is open to all schools and approved youth organizations. CyberPatriot’s National Youth Cyber Defense 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.
Gannon University has continued their sponsorship program, providing resources and support to local and national teams in their competition season. Gannon University will be sponsoring 7 schools and approximately 20 teams in the Open and All-Service divisions. Sponsored teams and all other national teams competed in Round 1 of the competition from October 24th-27th. Teams from Erie County Technical School and McDowell High School competed using lab facilities and equipment in the I-HACK building to enhance their chances of performing well.
While Gannon University is proud of all sponsored teams performance, 名媛直播 is proud to announce that teams from every sponsored school placed in the top 20 for their respective state and more than half the schools placed in the top 20 for the nation! The full placement is as follows:
-South Forsyth High School, GA: All teams tied for 1st in state and tied for 1st in the nation
-Erie County Technical School, PA: All teams averaged 4th in the state and 10th in the nation
-Kenai Peninsula, AK: Placed 1st in state and 11th in the nation
-Centennial High School, TX: All teams tied for 1st in state and for 1st in the nation
-McDowell High School, PA: Tied for 30th in the state and for 1st in the nation
-Cheltenham High School, PA: All teams averaged 23rd in the state and 73rd in the nation
-Erie High School, PA: All teams averaged 24th in the state and 64th in the nation
Teams from South Forsyth High School in Georgia and Centennial High School in Texas were awarded perfect scores for Round 1 of the competition! All sponsored teams competed incredibly in the first round and Gannon University is ready to support in the upcoming rounds in November.
To check out the full competition schedule and for more information on CyberPatriot, visit
