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[LA Daily] North Hollywood High school CyberPatriots with two Issac Kims ready to defend title

February 12, 2015
North Hollywood High School's CyberPatriot team (Korea Times)

North Hollywood High School’s CyberPatriot team (Korea Times)

[LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS]

With much of their school year focused not on the three R’s but on the big D — cyber defense — kids from North Hollywood High are working to defend computers and their networks against attack.

Their efforts culminate March 28 in the finals of Cyber­Patriot VI, in which 26 teams in two divisions vie for trophies, scholarships and, for some, internships. The months-long event is part of the Air Force Association’s National Youth Cyber Education Program, established six years ago to give students a taste of what it would be like to work in a growing sector tasked with protecting the nation’s all-important information super­highway.

North Hollywood High School’s Azure team — Travis Raser, Henry Birge-Lee, Isaac Kim, Issac Kim and Jake King — is one of the school’s six teams to enter the competition. But it’s one of only 12 Cyber­Patriot groups from around the country to qualify in the Open High School Division. Also representing Southern California are El Segundo and Palos Verdes Peninsula high schools.

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