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FTCC student Jacob Wright and his fellow cybersecurity interns at the North Carolina Department of Information Technology are participating in a program designed to build a talent pipeline into the IT workforce. They’re applying the skills and knowledge they learned in the classroom to the real world, by helping protect the state of North Carolina’s IT systems and the people who use them.

“The cybersecurity work that we’re doing and our team’s been doing is imperative to keep NCDIT continually operating like a well-oiled machine,” Wright said.

Read more about Wright and the NCDIT’s internship program with Carolina Cyber Network from the NCDIT’s website: https://it.nc.gov/blog/2026/03/01/saving-day-ncdit-interns-quick-actions-help-protect-state-systems

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