Good Game on the Hill McDaniel’s Green Terror ESports and MAGIC got together on November 19 and 20 for our first collaborative Good Game on the Hill! Dozens of college students from across the state came together to compete in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Cash prizes were sponsored by Green…
MAGIC’s 13th Capture the Flag (CTF) event took place on Saturday, October 22 at Carroll Community College. This was MAGIC’s first in-person CTF since 2020. Saturday’s event, which was limited to students within the United States, was one of the most challenging yet. Outreach efforts for the competition were focused on engaging our rural communities,…
MAGIC’s second annual Good Game Fest was held on Friday, November 4 thru Sunday, November 6 at the Best Western Westminster. We drew gamers from across the country to participate in a weekend of retro arcade gaming, console and tabletop tournaments, and more! Here’s a quick recap of what went down… Retro Game Arcade Good…
Written by Marie Overman, Winters Mill High School Class of ’23 What defines a survival horror game? Many horror games before the 90s were action games–largely combat-based games where you have a weapon and a number of enemies to defeat. The horror aspect threw in a few atmospheric changes, made items more difficult to find,…
The Mid-Atlantic Gigabit Innovation Collaboratory (MAGIC) is pleased to announce that they are recipients of a Truist Foundation Building Career Pathways to Economic Mobility grant of $8,360. This funding will be used to relaunch MAGIC’s data science programming, making it available to Westminster residents free of charge. The purpose of the Building Career Pathways to…
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month, and while it’s important we help those who struggle year round, this is the month when our nation puts an extra emphasis on helping those with mental health needs. At MAGIC, we know how important the early stages of life are for the development of a healthy state…
MAGIC’s 12th Capture The Flag (CTF) event took place this past Saturday, April 30. The beginner-level, international cybersecurity competition has historically drawn high school and college students from mostly the U.S. and Estonia, along with other countries, but this recent event became a distinct rivalry between students in those two nations. “The top 5 teams…
MAGIC Announces Fiscal Sponsorship of Innovators of Progress MAGIC is pleased to announce its fiscal sponsorship of Innovators of Progress, a Maryland-based entrepreneurship program for full-time vocational, undergraduate, and graduate students. The fiscal sponsorship agreement between the two organizations allows Innovators of Progress to raise funds for their pre-accelerator program under MAGIC’s 501(c)3 status.…
April is National Volunteer Month, and the week of April 17th through the 23rd is National Volunteer Week, and we’re excited! At MAGIC, we believe in doing volunteer work, not just for the good it does but also for the experience and opportunities it can provide employees with. We wanted to take some time today…
From Wikipedia: “Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II. In wartime, governments encouraged people to plant victory gardens not only to…