Congratulations to our Cyber Team, who finished 10th place in the Advanced Category in Saturday's Loyola Blakefield's Cyber Challenge. The challenge was the largest yet, with 52 teams and over 180 participants registered.
Pictured above from left to right: Olivia LaRocco '25, Lauren Thomas '26, Lucy Goldman '26, Abena Poku '25, and Harper Jackson '26.
The challenge was comprised of many different parts:
- Capture the flag tournament where students needed to solve complex puzzles, problems, and cryptology problems;
- Solving real-world network administrator problems on a virtual Linux server with only command line code;
- Gaining access to a small-scale model of a "Internet of Things" city, where the city was in chaos because hackers had turned off the street lights and highjacked a billboard (Maryvale was able to restore the streetlights and order to the roads - earning 2000 points on that challenge);
- Escape room challenge where a nuclear plant had been compromised and the students had to rescue a scientist who had been locked inside.
Abena successfully challenged the answer to a complex polynomial question:
import sympy as sp
x = sp.Symbol('x')
f = sp.sin(x)
z = 7
taylor = sp.series(f, x, x0=z, n=5)
print(taylor)
We were awarded the points for this problem because Abena successfully showed the wording of the problem was unclear and could lead to a different result.
Congratulations to the students who represented Maryvale so excellently!
