Red Bank Regional's award-winning cyber security class in its Academy of Information Technology program recently attracted wide attention with a segment on ABC.

Teacher Mandy Galante told the TV audience how her student cyber sleuths are first taught to hack into computers in order to learn how to best protect them, in a segment led by reporter Art McFarland.

The program recently had two teams place in the top 10 during the NYU-Poly Cyber Forensic finals, held in November in Brooklyn. Students on Team Significant Bits, comprised of Ryan McVeety of Little Silver, Michael Terpak of Union Beach and Alec Jasanovsky of Neptune, each won $12,000 annual scholarships to study at NYU-Poly.

Students on Team PetaFlops, comprised of Emily Wicki of Union Beach, A.J. Ostrander of Millstone and Phil Cundari of Shrewsbury, each won $7,000 annual scholarships, while RBR won $2,000 for the cyber program.

Watch the ABC News segment above.