MGM's CyberVikings
CyberVikings are MGM Students
interested Computer programming and cyber security
Our CyberVikings participate
in Various programming and Cyber Security Competitions


Congratulations to the following students who have earned
Information Technology Specialist Certification in Java:





Mary G. Montgomery High School's CyberVikings
came in 4th out of 116 teams competing in the 2022-2023 PowerUp Cyber Competition.
MGM's Team Members this year:
Michael Hofelich
Preston Vardaman
Benjamin Russ
Avery Webb
Congratulations to the following students who have earned
Information Technology Specialist certification in Python:









Mary G. Montgomery Students Earn GOLD!!

Each of these young men have earned Gold badges competing in CyberStart America.
To earn their Gold badge in CSA, students are required to earn at least 100,000 points solving challenges involving steganography, networking, code-breaking, Python programming, and digital forensics.
Benjamin Russ
Avery Webb
Preston Vardaman
MGM Students Earn GIAC Foundational Cybersecurity Technologies Certification
Earning the GFACT certification validates a practitioner's knowledge of essential foundational cybersecurity concepts.
GFACT-certified professionals are familiar with practical skills in computers, technology, and security fundamentals that are needed to kickstart a career in cybersecurity.
https://www.giac.org/certifications/foundational-cybersecurity-technologies-gfact/
Congratulations on your GFACT Certification:
Preston Vardaman
Avery Webb
Lydia Stroud
MGM's Computer Science students
have been enhancing their programming skills with the SkillsForAll website from CISCO
At SkillsForAll they completed the 30-hour Python Institute - Pythons Essentials 1 course, and earned a verified digital badge from CISCO Networking Academy.

Seth Shell
Braxton Fuller
Ben Walzak
Michael Hofelich
Noah Gates
Not Pictured:
Hunter McCammon, Benjamin Russ, Brayden Grzybowski
National Cyber Scholarship Foundation
2022 Scholars

Preston Vardaman Avery Webb
Darian Hill Braxton Fuller
Jose Wheeler Lydia Stroud
Seth Shell

PowerUp Cyber Games, which is powered by Cyber Skyline, is a cybersecurity competition. It takes place over most of an academic year with a different competition round each month.
October 2021 - warmup problems in the Practice Gym.
November 2021 - Cryptography Round
December 2021 - OSI Round
January 2022 - Log Analysis Round
February 2022 - Network Round
March 2022 - Linux Round
April 2022 - Software Security Round
In between rounds, the students have access to learning materials and presentations to help them enhance their knowledge of the topic of the next round of competition.
The 2021-2022 school year was Mary G. Montgomery's first year to enter a team in this competition.
MGM finished at 37th out of 216 teams.
Skol Vikings to:
Darian Hill
Reagan Hood
Lydia Stroud
Alexandria Tillman



Ben Russ
Preston Vardaman
Avery Webb

Michael Hofelich
Jose Wheeler
Lydia Stroud
2022 Aspirations in Computing Award

MGM CyberViking - Lydia Stroud
2002 Aspirations in Computing
NCWIT Honorable Mention
Florida Panhandle & Southern Alabama Affiliate
2021 SkillsUSA Alabama Chapter - State Programming Contest
MGM CyberViking Elvin Lin - 1st Place


2021 IBM© Summer Skills Build Challenge

Students took online courses on different topics ranging from Job Readiness skills to Cybersecurity, and had the opportunity to earn digital badges if they were successful on the end of course assessments. You can see snips of some of the badges our students earned above.
Three young women from MGM not only earned digital badges for their learning efforts, but they also earned prizes from IBM© for winning some of the Weekly Challenges.
Pictured are Alexandria Tillman, Lydia Stroud and Reagan Hood with some of the items they won.



MGM has been named a
2021 Gold Level Cyber Opportunity School