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GiveCorps Spotlight: UMBC Mock Trial Raises More Than Double Their Semester Goal

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UMBC’s Mock Trial team spends a lot of time on the road. This academic year, they’ve already been to four invitational tournaments at schools across the Mid-Atlantic, with trips to UPenn and Georgetown coming up within the next several months. They’ve been able to travel the country, hone their rhetorical skills, and represent our school’s commitment to inclusive excellence thanks to donors like you, who helped the nationally-ranked Mock Trial team raise more than double their fundraising goal for this semester. The financial support is vital to Mock Trial’s development as a group, says UMBC senior Dylan Elliott ’17, history,… Continue Reading GiveCorps Spotlight: UMBC Mock Trial Raises More Than Double Their Semester Goal

Retrievers Represent UMBC in the Women in Cybersecurity Conference

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During the past school year, several UMBC students traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to partake in the first-ever Women in Cybersecurity Conference. Thanks to our wonderful donors, Emily Scheerer ’14, computer science; Christina Malliakos ’14, computer science; Emily McMurray ’14, computer science; and Ruth Coradin ’16, computer science and applied linguistics, were able to receive supplementary funding for their trip out west. The money was raised through a crowd-funded project undertaken by the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT). When the need for additional funding arose, CWIT reached out to its alumni and friends and rallied community support to ensure that the students would be able to… Continue Reading Retrievers Represent UMBC in the Women in Cybersecurity Conference

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