The Chronicle 2020
In The News
ST MARGARET’S CODEBREAKERS REACH SEMI-FINAL OF CYBER SECURITY COMPETITION
On Saturday the 7th February, team Minerva with team members Joy Olanrewaju, Shaneka Hapuarachchi, Emma Murray and Marcy Bryce from II Senior, travelled down to Glasgow to compete in the semifinals of the cyber first girls’ competition against the top 9 schools in Scotland after qualifying in the first round. The semi-final was held in the newly built offices of Morgan Stanley which created a professional environment for us to work in.
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or the competition we had two 1.75hr slots to complete as many tasks as we could to get as many points as possible. This was to move up the leaderboard, as we competed against the other schools. The tasks were challenging but we worked well as a team, using all our knowledge from the qualifying round to help and we didn’t stop working until the very last second. As well as participating and coming 3rd in the competition we learnt many new skills and were also surprised to hear that there are 4.5 million jobs in cyber security across Britain that are vacant. This competition has definitely inspired us to consider taking up this career in the future.
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