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St Louis Girls Senior High School (SHS) has won the maiden edition of the National Cyber Champions Competition (NCCC).
The girls garnered 99.5 points to win the competition involving 14 SHSs from across the country.
Aggrey Memorial SHS and Kpando SHS scored 98.16 and 97 points to place second and third positions, respectively.
The event which took place at the CCB auditorium, KNUST was witnessed by over 1,900 students in and around Kumasi.
The participating schools were Archbishop Porter Girls, Aggrey Memorial AME Zion, Bishop Herman College, Boa Amponsem, Bolgatanga Girls, Kpando SHS, Methodist Technical Institute, OLA Girls, Kenyaase, Sunyani SHSM, St Augustine College, St Hubert Seminary, St Louis SHS, TI Ahmadiyya, Yaa Asantewaa.
The NCCC, an initiative of CyberGhana is a hands-on and project-based STEM and cyber program that motivates students to learn advanced concepts while schooling at the high school level in a competitive environment.
The program is intended to develop a cybersecurity workforce among the youths in Ghana and Africa.
It is part of CyberGhana's commitment to promoting cybersecurity engineering education and helping build Ghana's pool of diverse talent in cybersecurity from the high school level.
The program puts teams of high school students in the position of newly hired cybersecurity professionals performing cybersecurity operations tasks in a small company.
In the rounds of competition, high school teams are given a set of virtual tools that represent a natural business environment.
Teams are tasked with carrying out real consulting projects.
Teams first attend free boot camp training. Qualified teams (schools) and the top teams meet at the zonal and national levels to compete.
Individual students who exhibit unique skills are enrolled in CyberGhana's ongoing magnet program, a free program that seeks to introduce advanced security skills to students while schooling in high schools and universities.
The programme coordinator of CyberGhana, Bright Edujih Kuleke, said the competition seeks to develop a cyber-security workforce among the youth in Ghana and Africa.
It is part of CyberGhana’s commitment to promote cyber security engineering education and help to build a large pool of talents from the high school level.
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