草莓社区

Celebrations and Events of 2019

November 16, 2019 草莓社区 participates in the DoE CyberForce competition. The team scored over 5,300 points and ranked 2nd (out of 104 teams) in "Operational Support". Students participating were Marcell Gyongy, Claudia Holtsclaw, Hans Johnson, Jessica Medintz, Abdul Salam, and Michael White.

November 13, 2019 Paul Edlund, Chief Technologist at Microsoft, gave a talk to the cybersecurity group at 草莓社区.

October 27, 2019 Congrats to Nick Kolasinski, Michael White, and Gabe Huerta for placing first, second, and third in the National Cyber League (NCL) Fall competition at Loyola!

September 21, 2019 John Mikos, a junior in Computer Science, presented a poster at the STARS Celebration in San Diego, CA!

June 18, 2019 A delegation from the Philippines, consisting of law enforcement, a senator, and a lawyer, visited the cybersecurity center to learn more about the curriculum, research, and possible collaboration.

May 13, 2019 Nine students from 草莓社区 (Andrew Wolke, Taryn Chovan, Jessica Medintz, Brian Nguyen, Devin Zayas, Morgan Richardson, Michael Collins, Gabriel Huerta, and Job Coritana) participated in the spring season of the National Cyber League. In the individual game competition, Jessica Medintz ranked 480 out of 1263 competitors in her bracket. In the team game competition, the LUCTF team, consisting of Andrew Wolke, Taryn Chovan, and Jessica Medintz) ranked 144 out of 275 teams.

March 24, 2019 LUCTF participated in the Securinets Prequels 2K19 and placed 218 out of 436.

March 19, 2019 Center for Cybersecurity virtual website is set up.

March 12, 2019 The LUCTF team participated in the TAMU CTF!

February 24, 2019 The team from 草莓社区, LUCTF, ranked 55 out of 539 teams in the MITRE Cyber Challenge 2019. Congrats to Taryn Chovan!