One of Barstow’s lesser-known clubs is the Cyber Security Club. For the most part, the entire club consists of participating in the CyberPatriot competition. The Cyber Security Club had its first round and was able to perform well despite being a rather inexperienced team.

“It went well, we got 60 out of 100 points on the Linux, which was amazing since a few students were still learning it and it is the hardest program that is. Overall, we got 220 out of 300 points.” Mr. Daniel said, the Cyber Security mentor.

“The round went great. I think we did good and hopefully, we continue to improve as the year goes on.” Justin Jeong (‘24) said.

The way a round works is the team is split into groups of twos or threes and is given a computer that has an operating system with built-in flaws. Each group has to identify and correct all of the security flaws. Each correction is worth a point and the total number of points a team can get is 300. 

The team graduated a fair amount of seniors, so this year, the team is relatively inexperienced. This year may be more of a teaching year for the team’s newer additions.

“We have already discussed that to ensure we are not in the same situation next year, juniors will have the opportunity to learn the other operating systems. We also want to make sure the underclassmen have the chance to learn as well.” Mr. Daniel said. 

All teams will advance to the second round, no matter how the team performed, but after that, it will become more competitive. While it is not possible to physically go to an event, students are able to support their peers that participate in the Cyber Security Club.