NYLF/tech Day 8

I go home tomorrow. It is sad, but I have had a generally good week. I went to several seminars, and listened to speeches by people who work in the technology industry. Meal times have been the only free time, but there is always at least an hour for every meal. During my free time, I have been doing challenges in the Network Security Challenge Lab. The computers have a version of Ubuntu, a variation of Linux. I have almost no experience with Linux except for doing SSH to my web server. I have learned much that I didn't know about Linux, and even made it onto the "Wall of Fame" which shows the top 15 people in terms of score. I would be in that lab right now, except that they aren't allowing anyone to enter. I hope they open it again because there are a few challenges that I haven't figured out yet. I have been working on them for several days.

My group has been working on a Future Solutions project over the week, which consisted of taking a problem and attempting to solve it with technology. My group was initially split between Airport Security and Voting. When we took a vote, Airport Security won, but I and another teammate convinced the others to go with Voting. We came up with a solution that involved using touch screen terminals for people to vote on, and a thumbprint scanner to identify that no one votes twice. We had several servers, and a central server that published the election results on the web. We just finished presenting to the judges, but won't find out if we made it into finals until 1:30 or 2:00 this afternoon. Right now, I am attempting to entertain myself with my laptop plugged in right outside of the Network Security Challenge Lab. I'm wishing that they would open it up so that I can work on the challenges. I'll try to, if I have time post if my group made it into the finals.