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Goshen. CTE Computer Networking students advance to the CyberPatriot Competition National Semifinals
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| 29 Jan 2020 | 05:48
First-year CyberPatriot National Semifinal participants: Caleb Garver (Chester Academy), Joseph Cloidt (Minisink Valley High School), Travis Lysyczyn (Minisink Valley High School), Dominick D'Amico (Warwick Valley High School) and Nicholas Petraro (Monroe-Woodbury High School). (
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A team of five first-year STEM Academy students in Robert McMann’s Computer Networking class at the Orange-Ulster-BOCES Career and Technical Education Center placed second in the Gold Division of the New York State round of the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition.
The team’s outstanding placement in the state round enabled them to advance to the National Semifinals round.
The participants are Caleb Garver of Chester Academy, Joseph Cloidt and Travis Lysyczyn of Minisink Valley High School, Dominick D'Amico of Warwick Valley High School and Nicholas Petraro of Monroe-Woodbury High School.
CyberPatriot is a youth cyber education program conceived by the Air Force Association to inspire high school and middle school students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to the future and security of the United States.
The competition
At the center of CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, which 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.
Through a series of online competition rounds, teams are given a set of virtual operating systems and are tasked with finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities while maintaining critical services.
Each round lasts six hours and involved 4316 teams that entered this year in the open division from across the United States and Canada.
Orange-Ulster BOCES Career and Technical Education programs give students the opportunity to graduate from high school with technical experience, professional skills, national industry certifications, and college credit in a wide variety of high-demand occupations. The Career and Technical Education Division has programs located on two campuses in Goshen, one on Gibson Road and the other at the Regional Education Center at Arden Hill.
For more information about BOCES Career and Technical Education programs, call 845-291-0300.
National Semifinals
The national semifinals took place Jan. 24. The students participated online in their Orange Ulster BOCES classroom. The team was competing for first, second or third place in their tier. The semifinal results have not been announced yet, according BOCES spokeswoman Rebecca Lindland.