BAE Systems Detica Announces Winner of Its Education in the Community Competition at Awards Ceremony in Dublin
Online, May 29, 2013 (Newswire.com) - BAE Systems Detica today announces the winner of its Education in the Community schools competition in an awards ceremony that took place in Dublin on Friday 24 May. The students from O'Connells school were awarded 1st place and each received prizes worth over €500. All entrants will be eligible for college scholarship money totalling €15,000 to be awarded to outstanding contributors at a later date.
The award was presented by Aodhán Ã" RÃordáin, TD who is the Vice Chair of the Committee on Education and Social Protection.
Four teams comprising of Transition Year students from the Dublin inner-city based secondary schools, Mount Carmel, O'Connells, Synge Street and Warrenmount, participated in a competition that required students to come up with solutions to real world business challenges around the theme of digital security. The students, mentored by professionals from BAE Systems Detica, learned about launching new products from concept to go-to-market and had to pitch their business plan to a panel of judges.
Currently in its 5th year, BAE Systems Detica's Education in the Community programme is designed to encourage secondary school students to pursue further education through their participation in the programme, which offers help towards funding at third level college.
Chris Green, Managing Director NetReveal, BAE Systems Detica said:
"BAE Systems Detica is committed to supporting young talent and this competition gives students a snapshot of the potential of developing an IT career in a fast-moving and innovative industry. Once again the standards have been impressively high and O'Connells school is a worthy winner for its mobile security project."
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About Detica NetReveal
Detica NetReveal is a leading provider of risk, fraud and compliance solutions to a wide range of financial services and government clients across the globe. The NetReveal suite of solutions combines predictive analytics with advanced social network analysis to identify suspicious behaviours more accurately than other solutions.
The power of our approach lies in the combination of specialist industry expertise with proven technology. We provide our clients with intelligence to more accurately assess the risk of the individual by better understanding the risk associated with the networks in which they operate. With over 130 clients across five continents, including six of the world's current top 10 financial institutions, Detica NetReveal has a proven track record of tackling fraud, improving operational intelligence and reducing financial losses and reputational risk. Detica NetReveal, incorporating Norkom Technologies, is a business division of BAE Systems Detica.
For further information, please visit www.deticanetreveal.com
About BAE Systems Detica
BAE Systems Detica delivers information intelligence solutions to government and commercial customers. We help them collect, exploit and manage data so they can deliver critical business services more effectively and economically. We also develop solutions to strengthen national security and resilience.
We integrate and deliver world-class solutions to our customers' most complex operational problems - often applying our own unique intellectual property. Our services include cyber security, managing risk and compliance, data analytics, systems integration and managed services, strategy and business change and the development of innovative software and hardware technologies.
Detica is part of BAE Systems, a global defence, aerospace and security company with over 90,000 employees worldwide. BAE Systems delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. For more information, please visit www.baesystems.com
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