The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District has been named as the 8th CyberPatriot Center of Excellence in the nation. 

The Lee’s Summit R-7 School District is among just eight districts in the nation to be designated as a CyberPatriot Center of Excellence by the United States Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot program. The school district, which has captured numerous awards in the national CyberPatriot program, learned of this honor during mid-March.

This prestigious status is awarded only to organizations that excel in emphasizing cybersecurity and developing the workforce of tomorrow. Students involved in the district’s high-school and middle-school CyberPatriot teams as well as students in the district’s Missouri Innovation Campus cybersecurity program have excelled in this high-demand area and are well prepared to become the next generation of cybersecurity professionals

 Through the CyberPatriot competition and the Missouri Innovation Campus program, the students are learning cybersecurity techniques to the level that the programs’ industry mentors and partners have sought to hire them immediately after high-school graduation.  Read more