By Tech Assistant
May 01, 2018

Congratulations to Renée Schmidt, Ethan Hoadley, and Kirsten Springer for their recent victory at the RUSecure Cybersecurity/Forensics/Cryptography competition at Radford University. Out of about 125 total teams, their team DownloadMoreRAM was one of the eight invited to compete in the RUSecure finals after they placed 6th in the preliminary rounds. At the finals, they moved up two spots and finished in 4th place. The final scoreboard for the top 5 teams was as follows:

The Final RUSecure CTF Scoreboard
Team School
TJCSC Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
The Defense Mechanisms New River Community College
CTRL+ALT+DEFEAT Lord Fairfax Community College
DownloadMoreRAM Marshall Academy/ George C. Marshall High School
Los Pollos Hermanos Poolesville High School

 

From left to right: Greg Schmidt (Chaperone), Kirsten Springer, Renée Schmidt, Ethan Hoadley, and Mark Nagurney (Coach)
From left to right: Greg Schmidt (Chaperone), Kirsten Springer, Renée Schmidt, Ethan Hoadley, and Mark Nagurney (Coach) at the RUSecure CTF Competition