By Bill O'Neil & Johnny Shannon
The problem solvers of tomorrow will be in Washington D.C next week.--vying in a special competition on computer security.
Out of a field of more then 12-hundred teams that entered the competiton, just 28 teams remain--including one from East Central High School and another from John Jay.
"We had 143 teams from Texas--and six of them made it in to the finals" said Diane Miller with Northrop Grumman. They are taking part in Cyber Patriot Five, what she called the coutnry's fastest growing high school cyber defense competition.
"We had 143 teams from Texas--and six of them made it in to the finals" said Diane Miller with Northrop Grumman. They are taking part in Cyber Patriot Five, what she called the coutnry's fastest growing high school cyber defense competition.
"It was created by the Air Force Association as a way to get students excited about science, technology, engineering,and mathematics--and it's working" Miller said. She told 550 KTSA News the competition is very straight 
forward.
forward.
"We provide to them a virtual machine image of a network. Their job is to install that on their computer--and find the vulnerabilites that we've implanted on their image" Miller said, adding what might begin as an interest in computers, because of an interest in social media, could well launch these youngsters on a career path of protecting our computers--perhaps systems that might have a large impact on the country as a whole.
"They never really thought about the other aspects of computers such as protecting the information in them" Miller said.
The finals are set to take place Friday, March 15th. Members of the winning teams will receive scholarships from Northrop Grumman.
"They never really thought about the other aspects of computers such as protecting the information in them" Miller said.
The finals are set to take place Friday, March 15th. Members of the winning teams will receive scholarships from Northrop Grumman.
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