The watchlist was created in 2016 to identify professors who “discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
David Khait and Cam Higby run Fearless Debates, an Instagram account with more than 300,000 followers that documents debate booths set up on college campuses.
Kirk, a co-founder of Turning Point USA and ally of President Donald Trump, was killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Winning team DefenX beat fellow University of Maryland finalist Weapon Watch in the competition hosted by xFoundry, a startup incubator founded by this university in 2023.