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Club History

Oct 17, 20243 min read

Club History

Origin Story

Per Aaron McCanty, the club started as an after-work gathering of Battelle employees. Battelle expanded after-work social hours, which involved working on CTF problems together and generally discussing anything cyber-related, to include the co-op students and their friends. Eventually a few of the co-ops and their friends had a class with Steve Romig, who helped to form an official student organization, though at the beginning there were more Battelle employees than students going to meetings. This changed over time, with the biggest student growth occurring around the time Cam Taylor was president, as he was not originally a Battelle employee.

Additional Research

Aaron recounts that the club was founded around 2015/2016, but we’ve also found some documents about an OSU Capture the Flag Group stretching back to October 2013, so we’re not exactly sure of the timeline. Here’s what we do know:

  • Steve Romig’s blog (archive link) mentions creating a blog site for the OSU CTF group on October 21, 2013.
  • The OSU Capture the Flag Group blog site (archive link) has posts from December 2014 to March 2015 discussing club meetings and CTF writeups.
  • The “CTF” tab of the OSU CTF Group blog site lists the Group Google account as 0xbb0000.0x666666@gmail.com. We don’t currently have access to this account, though we haven’t tried asking Steve about it since we haven’t had a need to.
  • The OSU CTF Group blog site sidebar and “Calendar” tab link to an osu-ctf Google calendar which shows meetings between 2 December 2014 and 26 May 2015.
  • The “CTF” tab of the OSU CTF Group blog site also links to the osu-ctf OSU mailing list (archive link), which lists its administrators as romig.1 (Steve Romig), reynolds.795 (likely Bobby Reynolds, see past officers table) and gordon.688 (likely Kyle Gordon, see past officers table).
  • The original OSU CTF Group was the #bb0000#666666 team on CTFtime.

Past Officers

Italics indicates OSU-required positions. Names with a ? next to them have not been verified.

SemesterPresidentVice PresidentTreasurerSecretaryWebmasterCTF Team CaptainOutreach CoordinatorResearch CoordinatorEngineering Lead
AU16Kyle GordonRyan HoBobby ReynoldsN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
SP17Kyle GordonStephen HaffnerBobby ReynoldsN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
AU17Cameron TaylorIman QamarDanny AromandoN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
SP18Cameron TaylorIman QamarDanny AromandoN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
AU18Cameron TaylorIman QamarDanny AromandoN/ANoah KritzN/AN/AN/AN/A
SP19Cameron TaylorMichael HayworthDanny AromandoN/ANoah KritzN/AN/AN/AN/A
AU19Michael HayworthKyle WesthausStephanie PirmanN/ATyler HarrisN/AN/AN/AN/A
SP20Michael HayworthKyle WesthausStephanie PirmanAndrew HaberlandtTyler HarrisN/AN/AAndrew MigotN/A
AU20Michael HayworthKyle WesthausAndrew HaberlandtN/AN/AChris DeRosaNick KuhlAndrew MigotN/A
SP21Kyle WesthausYu-Shiang JengAndrew HaberlandtN/AN/AJackson LeverettNick KuhlAndrew MigotN/A
AU21Kyle WesthausYu-Shiang JengAndrew HaberlandtN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
SP22Gent SemajLennon AndersonJosh BarbeeMatthew AyersN/ARonnie EytchisonN/AN/AJackson Leverett
AU22Gent SemajLennon AndersonJosh BarbeeMatthew AyersN/ARonnie EytchisonN/AN/AJackson Leverett
SP23Lennon AndersonMark BundschuhShannon McKinneyN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AJackson Leverett
AU23Lennon AndersonMark BundschuhShannon McKinneyN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AJackson Leverett
SP24Mark BundschuhJackson LeverettAndrew KingeryN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
AU24Mark BundschuhJackson LeverettAndrew KingeryN/AN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Sources

Note that student organization constitutions only need updated every 2 years, and sometimes the officers simply re-upload the old file after verifying that the content of the constitution has not changed. The actual date of submission is listed in the URL, NOT what is listed in the document.

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