Month: November 2020

Workspace @ Hatchery

Big news! Pythax now has a physical workspace, located inside UF’s Innovation Hub. Thanks to Raytheon, we’ve been able to set ourselves up in an office space surrounded by some great startups and innovative companies. Inside the workspace we’ve got… Read More

PDR Presentation – RTX

We did it! Well, maybe not what you think we mean by “it.” The final project is still on our distant horizon, but we’re now one step closer, because we finally presented our preliminary design report to our liaison engineer… Read More

PDR Presentation – Peers

We had the chance to do an initial presentation of our preliminary design report to the rest of the IPPD class, and got some super valuable feedback from it! Without going into excessive detail regarding our presentation itself, we’ll dive… Read More

Concept Generation

Once we narrowed down our critical sub-functions in the functional architecture generation step, we were able to identify the key areas to direct our creative efforts.  To list them: Add new challenges (specifically, allow functionality for an admin to do… Read More

Functional Architecture

Before any work can be done to come up with ideas for this Capture the Flag platform, we have to identify the key players. Not just the players in the game, but all the entities which make up the system… Read More

Why CTF?

As you might already know, the folks at Raytheon Technologies (RTX) are using their Capture The Flag Jeopardy as a capstone assessment for some of their cybersecurity-themed internal training courses. But why use a CTF? Why not just test the… Read More

Project Overview

So what is Pythax going to do, anyways? Well, to answer that question let’s first take a look at what Raytheon Technologies (RTX) has done so far. Currently, the Capture the Flag Jeopardy application is being used as a form… Read More