The Lynx Way

Members of the 2023 CCDC team from Dakota State include: Gwen Vongkasemsiri (back left), Jonny Derenge, Tyler Thomas, Jackson Heiberger; Tristan Stapert, (front left), Gaelin Shupe, John Brumels, and Aaron Baker.

 

Moore wins BV Optimist Club’s

essay contest

Mazzi Moore took top honors in the Brandon Valley Optimist Club’s essay contest last month. Second and third place were won by Isabela Anders and Amber House, respectively. Moore now advances to the District level, where the winner will receive $2,500.

 

Dodds on UMGC Dean’s List

Peggy Dodds, of Brandon, is one of more than 9,800 University of Maryland Global Campus students named to the Dean’s List for the fall semester. To be eligible for the honor, students my complete at least six credits during the term, earn a grade point average of at least 3.5, and maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.5.

 

Candy qualifies for national

tourney in humorous interp

Ian Candy, a member of the BVHS Speaking Lynx speech teach, qualified for the national tournament this summer in humorous interp. Candy earned the right to advance at the Rushmore District National Qualifiying Tournament last month at Harrisburg High School. 

 

BVHS Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra achieve success

The Brandon Valley High School Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra both received Superior I ratings at Festival of Orchestras last week.

 

Local students selected to University of

Minnesota Twin Cities Dean’s List

The following local students have been named to the 2022 fall semester Dean’s List at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. From Brandon are: Rachel Desmet, senior, College of Continuing & Professional Studies; Nathan Greene, freshman, College of Biological Sciences; Julia Jacobson, sophomore, College of Liberal Arts; Paige Keller, sophomore, Colegel of Food, Agriculture & Natural Resource Sciences; Jessica Krogman, senior, College of Liberal Arts; and Kate Livingston, junior, College of Liberal Arts; Valley Springs: Sophia Schmaltz, junior, College of Liberal Arts.
To qualify for the Dean’s List, a student must complete 12 or more letter-graded credits while attaining a 3.66 grade point average.

 

South Dakota State announces summer, fall 2022 graduation list

The following local students graduated after the summer and fall 2022 semesters at South Dakota State University: Brandon –  McClane Archer graduated Cum Laude, Bachelor of Arts in SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Elizabeth Braley, Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science in SDSU’s College of Education and Human Sciences; Aeriell Jastorff, B.S., SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Christy Marcotte, B.S. in Nursing in SDSU’s College of Nursing; Tatum Mork, Cum Laude, B.S., SDSU’s College of Education and Human Sciences; Rylie Nettestad, Magna Cum Laude. B.S. in Nursing in SDSU’s College of Nursing; Jada Tschetter, Summa Cum Laude, B.S., SDSU’s College of Natural Sciences; Grace Wright, Summa Cum Laude, B.S., SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Jasmine Boeke, Master of Science in SDSU’s Graduate School; Jamie Fick, B.S., SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Jessica Tofteland, B.S. in Nursing, SDSU’s College of Nursing; Garretson – Collin Flahaven, B.S,, SDSU’s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering; Emily Malsom, Magna Cum Laude, B.S. in SDSU’s College of Education and Human Sciences; Zebadiah Johnson, Magna Cum Laude, B.S. in SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Alex Uhl, B.A., SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Skylar Halverson, Master of Science in SDSU’s Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering; Valley Springs – Taylor Dawley, B.S., SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Gage Ruhlman, Bachelor of Music Education in SDSU’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Sioux Falls – Felicity Klinkhammer, B.S. in Nursing in SDSU’s College of Nursing; Giana Pardee, B.S., Nursing in SDSU’s College of Nursing; Renner – April Nelsen, Doctor of Philosophy in SDSU’s Graduate School.

 

DSU team headed to national

cyber defense competition

A cyber team from Dakota State University is headed to a national competition.

Eight students competed in the Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC) in February and won in the At Large region event. April 28-30, they will compete against nine other teams from across the country in the National CCDC competition.

CCDC was created in 2005 to establish a cyber security exercise for post-secondary students. The intent was to bring the worlds of operations and education together to better prepare graduates for the future.

“While CCDC is definitely gamified, almost all of the skills that we learn and train here are very applicable to the real world,” said team captain Gaelin Shupe, a Master of Science in Cyber Defense major from Boulder, Colo.

For the competition, teams work with a simulated business, providing IT services while fending off attackers, called red teamers, which are meant to disrupt those services. Further, teams must work to resolve “injects,” or assigned tasks that might involve technical or business-oriented skills.

Each student brings a variety of skills necessary to find and fix vulnerabilities and methods to detect and stop malicious actors, Shupe said. With this, the team can assign roles based on those capabilities, such as defensive experience with Linux or Windows, or business experience for injects. Depending on where they are in the competition, team members have to be agile on that day, said Jackson Heiberger, a Cyber Operations and Network Security and Administration double major from Beresford.

To be prepared for any situation, “every team member is expected to be practicing technical skills on their own outside of our weekly trainings,” said Shupe.

“We all need to take the initiative to learn what will help us win the competition, and what will help us tackle any challenge that the competition throws our way,” he stated, including quick analysis and prioritization during incidents to the professional communication skills required. 

Leadership skill is another advantage of this team competition. Shupe is in his fourth year on the team, and being team captain “has provided me personally with a great opportunity to learn team leadership, communication, and organization skills.” He organizes and leads their weekly meetings, sets up practice/training exercises to build the team’s technical skills, helps to resolve internal conflicts, and works on some of the challenges that come with training on communication and teamwork skills for the whole team.

The 2023 team members include: Aaron Baker, Cyber Operations major from Sheridan, Wyo., John Brumels, Cyber Operations and Network Security and Administration double major from Sioux Falls; Jonny Derenge, Cyber Operations from Sioux Falls, Jackson Heiberger, Cyber Operations and Network Security and Administration double major from Beresford, Annabelle Klosterman, Master of Science in Cyber Defense major from Brandon, Gaelin Shupe, Master of Science in Cyber Defense major from Boulder, Colo., Tristan Stapert, Cyber Operations from Tumwater, Wash., and Tyler Thomas, Cyber Operations and Network Security and Administration double major from Forest Lake, Minn.

Alternates for the CCDC team are Gwen Vongkasemsiri, Michael Fahnlander, and Tyler Sternod.

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