左起为阿卜杜拉·哈萨尼, Major League Hacking; Bonnie Cui, 宾州州立银行; Louis Cubero, 皇后学院, 纽约城市大学; and Cameron Wills, 宾州州立大学公园.
WYOMISSING,爸爸. — This spring, 宾州州立银行 students have developed two new apps that won awards in Penn State's HackPSU春季2024 竞争. They also found time to serve the local community by providing education on cybersecurity issues and best practices to seniors.
学生们在HackPSU开发获奖的应用程序
One student team received the HackPSU “Best Use of MongoDB Atlas” award for their app named “Mindful Garden AI.” The inspiration for their app was to offer support to people struggling to navigate mental health challenges. MindGarden AI is a user-friendly web app that assists with mental wellbeing by providing positive affirmations, 日志记录日志, 还有一个设定目标的地方. Users can obtain both randomly generated affirmations and guided affirmations based on a challenge they are experiencing.
Team members include 宾州州立银行 网络安全分析与运营 majors Matthew Blake and 伊丽莎白·瓦茨, and 信息技术 major Corey Livinghouse; and 宾州州立大学公园 computer science major Bakhtiar Reza and computer engineering major Jacob Piehl.
From left are Bakhtiar Reza, Corey Livinghouse, Jacob Piehl, Matthew Blake and 伊丽莎白·瓦茨.
“Hackathons like HackPSU are challenging but rewarding,” Blake said. “他们把你推向极限，帮助你成长. It was tough to build this comprehensive app in 24 hours, but the learning experience was invaluable. As the back-end developer, I honed my skills in Python web frameworks, OAuth and MongoDB.”
“HackPSU was an incredibly positive experience where me and my team there learned so much through collaboration in our project,科瓦尔奇克说. “Having received recognition for our project is motivating and pushes me to keep learning more.”
Another team received the “Best AI Application Built with Cloudflare” award for PicNik, a photo sharing platform that allows users to maintain the confidentiality of their contact information and rids their phone's memory of data, 比如临时联系人和群聊. A temporary group with a unique QR code receives a space for sharing photos within 24 hours from the time the QR code is generated, allowing group members to upload and download the photos without sharing personal data.
Team members include 宾州州立银行 computer science majors Bonnie Cui and Cameron Wills and Louis Cubero of 皇后学院, 纽约城市大学.
“As a team of three students in their first and second years with little coding experience, 我们现实的目标是学习新的东西, 认识新朋友, 并在24小时内在HackPSU上创建一个工作代码. 然而, the results exceeded our expectations when we were announced winners in the nomination category,崔说. “I’m grateful to HackPSU organizers for creating an environment that gathered different people driven by the same things together. The HackPSU experience motivates me to keep exploring possibilities in the computer science field.”
Both teams were accompanied to HackPSU at 宾州州立大学公园 campus by 朱赛德，香港大学副教授 网络安全分析与运营 在赌博平台大全.
伊丽莎白·瓦茨
学生们在社区里为老年人服务
除了他们的比赛成功, a group of 宾州州立银行 students in the college’s Technology Club are working to raise awareness of cybercrimes and scams targeting seniors. The Technology Club helped to educate residents of The Highlands in Wyomissing about cybersecurity issues and best practices in March. 学生们就密码安全作了简短的介绍, phishing scams and safe practices for banking and shopping online. 演讲结束后, the students answered questions and helped the residents to secure their devices.
宾州州立银行 Technology Club is composed of students majoring in one of the college’s degree programs in 网络安全分析与运营, 信息技术, 安全和风险分析, 以及对网络安全感兴趣的学生. 做报告的学生包括马修·布莱克, 伊丽莎白·瓦茨, Rere Adeyemo, Jayvian佩蒂特, 迈克尔·拉斯卡诺·卡马乔和阿里安娜·门德斯·德拉克鲁兹.
“We presented on common online scams such as phishing and phone call scams, 还有这些骗局的潜在迹象,布莱克说。. “我们还讨论了预防措施, like limiting the amount of personal information that they publish online, 识别可能好得令人难以置信的情况, 设置安全的密码. 高地剧院的观众对学习非常开放. Some of them even insisted that was come back for a follow-up visit.”
资金由赌博平台大全 Howard O., Jr.， Jean S。. 海狸社区服务基金会. 特里西娅•克拉克, assistant teaching professor of information sciences and technology and program chair of the 网络安全分析与运营, 信息技术, 安全和风险分析学位课程, 担任博克斯技术俱乐部的顾问. 欲了解更多信息，请联系Clark (电子邮件保护).
