Powell High School math teacher Jimmy Waters

for more than 4 years.

Waters deciphered the message at the San Jose Semaphore, four glowing disks that are at the top of Adobe's headquarters in California. The code was designed by artist Ben Rubin to transmit a complex, coded message that was open for the public to decipher.

Waters cracked the code after finding the video stream online. The semaphore was transmitting encrypted audio from Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon speech. It was the longest running code since the semaphore's launch and the first to be solved outside of Silicon Valley.

For deciphering the message, Waters won a year subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud. Waters decided to donate that to the school. In response, Adobe made 40 subscriptions available for the school, along with a 3D printer.