 Shannon Morse with DEF CON 30. I am over here at Blacks in Cyber Security Village. I'm so excited to chat with you, Makayla. This is a new village for me. I've never been over here before, and I believe this is the second year? Is that correct? Yes, that's our second one. I'm super excited to be back at DEF CON after the big thing that happened in the world, which we won't speak about here on the YouTubes. Sadly, yes, that happened. So tell me all about what is Blacks in Cyber Security doing? What are some of the cool things that your village is introducing to DEF CON? Yes, so we're really excited this year to bring back not only our CTF, but also Badge Life. So our CTF, which we're really excited about, includes a lot of our community members. So it's completely from a Black perspective with our cultural nuances, our fandom, and just helping people be more aware of what's more diverse and including diverse perspectives. So we're really excited about contributing to that each year. This year in particular, our CTF theme is Wakanda, so... Oh my god, I love it! Yes, yes! So we crash-landed in the forest of Wakanda with our spaceship, and we're really excited about the challenges that we were able to come out of that concept. So we're really excited about that. Next is our badge, so hashtag Badge Life. We're really excited to show off our Black Panther badge. We love Badge Life here. Let me see. Yeah, so, yeah, we just love doing things that are in our culture and that raise awareness, and also everyone can really enjoy and be inspired by. Absolutely, I agree. Now, I do want to touch on your badge a little bit more because I think it's absolutely beautiful and, I mean, perfect timing with Wakanda and everything. Can people solder this, or does it do anything cool? Does it light up? Not quite. It's kind of just sort of basically, we definitely wanted to make sure people could enjoy it and see it and not, you know, just be new to things, kind of see it for what it is. But we're excited to have a Wakanda instead of Wakanda, a Wakanda badge series. I love that. So we can definitely add on to these and just make new versions each time. Now, you mentioned that you're bringing people in to kind of give a new aspect, a new background to cybersecurity and trying to introduce people to the diversity of cybersecurity as well. Can you chat about that a little bit more? Yes, so a lot of our goals and our mission is to bring our Black community into the cybersecurity space and into the hacker-making space as well because so many people just go over looks, they're just not aware of what this world can offer them, what they can offer to the world. Totally, yeah. You know, we're just really excited about the impact our community in particular can just make on the hacker space to make cyber more holistic and just, you know, more inclusive. So we're excited about it. I think it's wonderful. I think it's wonderful that you're here and that you're promoting more diversity in cybersecurity. We definitely need that. And I speak from my own experience as a woman in tech. Like it's a thing that we need more of for sure. Is there anything cool about your CTF that you would like the online interwebs to know about? I think a lot of it has to be a little bit of a secret because we like to have that open surprise. It's a secret. Yeah. So this year, of course, we had a Wakanda theme, but next year we're really cooking up something special just because, you know, just because it'll be our next, our third year, we kind of gotten our C legs a little bit and we're just excited to bring what's next. And are you doing anything else like giving talks or is there like any kind of introductory level things that your village is doing this year? Yes. So we'd like to give our talks from the black perspective. Of course, we have that full spectrum of different topics and issues that are pertinent to our community and pertinent to the hacker community as well. So we just like to bring that aspect. Soon we'll be looking to expand to have workshops or different things that people can kind of do like challenges and just different things people can interact with to gain skills and knowledge. And anybody can come in here, right? Definitely. Absolutely. Yeah. Everybody is welcome. Yes. Is there anything else that you would like to chat about with our online fan base? Everybody that's out there and watching this. Um, yeah, so hey guys, I just want you guys to come enjoy what we have to offer and just come get to know us. You know, you are good people. You are good people. I'm so happy that I was able to come over here today and I'm really looking forward to your talks. I feel like it'll make me a better person and I feel like everybody should come check out blacks and cybersecurity village over here in the flamingo.