In the 2022-2023 school year, we began our partnership with the Longmont Senior Center. This project idea was developed from a desire from one of our project team members to help his grandfather cipher through all of his spam emails. Our team decided they wanted to do something more to help this population so we reached out to the Longmont Senior Center and they agreed to partner with us!

Our student team created the curriculum and activities, taught the courses, and worked with all of the employees at the Senior Center to make it happen. It has been a great experience for both the students and senior citizens.

Cyber Patriot is a middle school and high school cybersecurity competition that was developed by the Air Force and Northrup Grumman. Students are given three insecure systems - Windows 10, Windows Server, and Ubuntu. In teams, students find the vulnerabilities, patch them, and get points! Teams compete against schools from all over the country.

Our Cyber Tech Team offer practices in a whide variety of topics that is available to any Cyber Patriot competitor in the district. They also provide resource videos if they are unable to make the practices. The majority of the team also compete on a team themselves!

As you can see on the competition page, the Innovation Center takes high school students and their teams to several coding competitions. At the time, there were not any available to any middle school students (and the interest was high).

Our team decided to create our own coding competition specifically for middle school students. They created the platform to submit code, created all the problems, communicated with all of the middle schools, offered to provide lesson for them, created t-shirts, and ran the event!