Local students take part in ‘hack’ event | News

About 100 seventh through 12th grade students from Bedford, Blair and Cambria counties, including students from Bedford and Everett school districts and HOPE for Hyndman Charter School, recently participated in Major League Hacking’s Global Hack Week, hosted by South Hills School of Business & Technology in Altoona.

The event included multiple interactive STEM sessions designed by South Hills students, faculty and area technology professionals including “A Scavenger Hunt ‘Capture the Flag’ Challenge in the Cloud”; “Creating Your First Website on GitHub”; “Computers Worldwide”; “Moving Data for the Olympic Games”; “Building a Computer and Hardware in the Cloud”; “Create a Minecraft Server in the Cloud and PLAY”; “Cloud Security for the US Department of Defense”; and “Cybersecurity Careers.”