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INJURED
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
A local team of young ladies
did their community proud by
taking home honors at a Boston
U.S. Federal Reserve competition.
The group of three girls, 10-
and 11-year-olds, tied for fi rst
place out of 17 teams in the Boston
Fed’s 2019 Global Economic
Symposium competition for middle
school and also high school
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The homegrown team consisted
of Giselle McGraw of Williamsbridge,
Bekah Givan of Clason
Point and Isabella Gonzalez
of Manhattan.
As part of the competition,
which took place on Friday, February
15, the team was required
to pick a global economics question,
explain it, give examples,
and then come up with solutions,
said the team members.
The teams were researching
weighty issues such as food insecurity,
water pollution and air
quality, said the girls, who chose
to base their project on cybercrime.
Team Cybercrime Fighters
competed against middle school
aged teams from New York City,
Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The girls made a fi ve-minute
presentation before a panel of
judges and a room full of spectators,
fi rst defi ning cybercrime
before stating their solution of
increasing cyber security and
developing stronger global best
practices, they said.
“These (solutions) include
fi rewalls, cyber security, and
implementing GDPR (General
Data Protection Regulation),”
said Givan, adding that GDPR is
a regulation currently in use in
England and throughout the European
Union providing for data
protection and privacy for individuals.
The team worked for three
months on the project, meeting
via video call on the computer application
Zoom for 45 minutes at
a time to go over their project and
refi ne it, including content and
slides, said team members.
The team members said they
chose cybercrime because it is
timely and part of their ordinary
experiences.
“We picked the topic because
it is in our everyday lives,” said
McGraw. “We are young, and
we use technology in school,
for games and in our everyday
lives.”
Conveying a lot of information
in a short time period was a challenge
the girls were able to overcome,
they said.
“We had to speak so that people
could understand us, and do
so in fi ve minutes,” said Gonzalez.
T
he girls went to the symposium
before, so they had an idea
of what to expect, but nevertheless
making a presentation of
this magnitude was something
new.
“Since we had never done
anything like this before, it was
a challenge, and we are really
happy we stepped up to the challenge,”
said Givan.
Gonzalez added: “It was a
great opportunity.”
The girls are already planning
on competing next year,
they said.
The young ladies took part
in programming sponsored by
World Of Money, which fi elded a
number of teams at the competition,
including the other winning
team in the girl’s age group.
World of Money is a non-profi t
dedicated to teaching youth
about personal fi nance and empowering
them with immersive
classroom and mobile education.
“We cannot allow a zip code to
defi ne our students’ educational
experience or what they are
capable of contributing to our
state, nation, and global community,”
said Sabrin Lamb, World
of Money CEO and founder in a
statement.
Youth team wins Boston
Federal Reserve contest
(l-r) Isabella Gonzalez, Bekah Givan and Giselle McGraw after their win at the
symposium. Photo coutesy of April Horton
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