St Kentigern's Academy Girls are CyberFirst Scottish Champions
St Kentigern's Academy's S2 girls were invited to participate in a UK wide Cyber Competition run by the National Cyber Security Centre.
This was part of GCHQ, and sponsored by Morgan Stanley. The girls formed teams of up to four members and solved a range of coding, logic and encryption puzzles and were competing against schools from all over the UK. This year 28 S2 girls from St Kentigern's took part. The competition had 3608 teams from over 750 schools across the UK enter (12,500 girls in total). One of the school's teams, made up of Julia, Elisana, Julia and Akosua won, becoming Scottish Champions.
As Scottish Champions they were invited to Oxford to attend the CyberFirst winners' event. The girls met with winners from each of our four nations, explored Oxford University and attended an Awards Ceremony and Gala dinner.
Also, in recognition of all the good work undertaken at St Kentigern's, the school was awarded a CyberFirst Silver Award as one of the UK's leading Cyber Schools.
The winning team were recently invited to speak to a meeting of West Lothian Council Education Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel.
Executive councillor for education, Andrew McGuire said: "Thank you very much to the team for coming along to speak at committee. It was a huge honour to hear from them following their success at a national level. I hope the pupils continue to explore the world of cyber security and I hope their outstanding achievement inspires their peers to looking into the subject."
