AP Assembly
Accolades
Fifth year recognition plaques
October 16, 2008
In APA's 5th year, Dr. Machen recognized the founding committee of the Academic and Professional Assembly as well as our longest serving volunteer. Dr. Machen also recognized the former APA board members and thanked them for their service.
Ryan Mills has been the volunteer webmaster for the Academic and Professional Assembly since its founding. His five years of service make him the longest serving volunteer to date. He was also recognized with a plaque.
Founding committee members were recognized with a plaque:
Cheri Brodeur, Carol Kem, Vernon Kisling, June Nogle, Allan Preston, and Jani Sherrard
Many thanks to our founding committee, our volunteers, our board members and our members. The Academic and Professional Assembly is successful because of your hard work and contributions.
Christine Schoaff
President, Academic and Professional Assembly
Director, UF Web Administration
2006-2007 Accolades
Congratulations to UF Senior Security Engineers Jordan Wiens and John Sawyer for their first place victory at the prestigious electronic Capture the Flag competition at the DEFCON 2006 conference in August. This is the world's largest annual hacker conference. Jordan and John were part of an elite, eight-member team made up of various programmers and security experts from around the U.S. In June, hundreds of teams attempted to qualify for the competition, but only eight (including their team—1@stPlace) succeeded. Other than being recognized with the highest honor, winners of the team received a black badge that will get them into all future DEFCONs and a leather jacket which sports the event's logo.
Submitted by Julia Emko, CNS/IT Security