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Grossmont Students Attack Hacking Competitions
Grossmont High School Student Hacking Team
It's been quite a banner year for the student hackers and Grossmont High School. In October, the girls won the grand prize at the Cal State San Marcos Hackathon. In November, their app challenge team won for Congresswoman Davis' district and secured a trip to Washington, DC, to present at the congressional House of Code. In March, the school's primary hacking team finished the CyberPatriot competition in 3rd place for the Western Region Silver Division.
On March 25, the all-star hacking team of eight students took third place at the SoCal Cyber Cup finals at the UCSD Super Computer Center. They received a $2,000 check for their efforts. The primary sponsor for the Cyber Cup was Booz Allen Hamilton and representatives were present for the awards ceremony. They are looking to partner with Grossmont High and the University of San Diego Computer Science department to offer some courses on Grossmont's campus to further the pursuit of cyber security.
On Saturday, April 22, a new team of girls competed in the Spring edition of the Cal State San Marcos Hackathon. This group consisted primarily of girls who have never competed in any event like this but are intrigued by the idea and positive experiences of the students that have participated in similar events.
Congratulations to all!
Grossmont Hacking Club Competes Again!
Click here to read the article: "3 reasons why
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Grossmont took 6th out of 125 teams in the hacking competition on Saturday at the UCSD Super Computing Center. During the 7 hour competition there were 3 Windows virtual machines, 2 Linux virtual machines, and a computer forensics challenge that the boys had to complete.
G Team Six (yes, I just made that up) was led by team captain Trentin Wilkins, Nathan Jones, Bradley Justice, Matthew Linquist, Charles Sanders, and Gabriel LeBon.
They won a cash prize of $700 for the school and a week long summer cyber boot camp sponsored by General Atomics. The competition was exceptionally good with Westview winning the top spot. We finished 2 places in front of a very capable Oak Valley middle school team coached by a Northrup Grumman tech that just won a national hacking competition in Baltimore last week.
The boys are all interested in doing more competitions and we are in the process of enrolling in the national Cyber Patriot competition. Curtis Sharon a computer science instructor from Cuyamaca College has offered to assist in mentoring us and providing facilities anytime we need them.
I couldn't have been more proud of the boys and especially our own site tech Jeff Blount who was an outstanding mentor that took many hours of his personal time to work with the boys and get them up to speed with securing machines and detecting security vulnerabilities.
- Pat Giovengo, Club Advisor
Grossmont Tops La Mesa Urban Trails Design Competition
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Grossmont Students win La Mesa Urban Trails Design Competition
Last fall, students at Grossmont High School accepted an invitation from the La Mesa Urban Trails Design Committee to participate in a high school competition to redesign University Avenue in La Mesa from Troy Street to La Mesa Boulevard. Students were encouraged to use Sketchup, a 3D modeling and design application for the drawings. Teacher Patrick Giovengo introduced the idea to his AP Computer Science students and had seven teams from freshmen to seniors prepare designs using Sketchup, Maya 3D animation software, and paper drawings.
Design firm KTU+A sent two representatives who presented to students the general parameters and displayed some creative urban ideas from other cities. The students made decisions based on the amount of space to work with and the general layout of University Avenue. Students had about four weeks to complete their designs and submit them to KTU+A. The designs were printed and mounted for display at the La Mesa Block Party in downtown La Mesa.
Students Jacob Ennis and Jack Curtin won the overall contest by designing a dry creek bed with designated bicycle and pedestrian paths. Their design beat out nine other submissions that came from Grossmont and Helix Charter High Schools. The design greatly improves the concrete landscape that currently exists and made it a more natural area to walk or ride.
The picture that follows is the winning design. I think you will agree that exceptional student talent is on display here:
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