Kansas State University’s
Cyber Defense Club competition team travels across the Midwest in the United
States for competition. These kinds of adventures take some serious planning
because hauling the whole team on a small budget is a feat in and of itself.
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| Club treasurer, Caleb Fleming, at a recent cyber defense competition. |
The Cyber Defense Club’s
budget is designated mainly for travel expenses. This budget is formed by funding
from the Kansas State University Department of Computer Science, as well as the
College of Engineering. The team must budget and plan every aspect of
their travels from making hotel reservations to deciding what gas station to
get fuel at.
When times get hard the
team turns to its alumni to make individual donations. The team has no industry
partners, however, because most alumni work for government agencies. This makes
it hard for the team to gain a large corporate sponsor in the private sector
according to the club treasurer, Caleb Fleming.
To the team’s benefit,
their meager budget is doable because of the fairly small number of competitions
they attend and are satisfied with. Still, the team is “looking very closely”
at their budget because they would like to “expand” and add another competition
event this year, according to Fleming.
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