Practice Schedule
Tuesday: 3:30pm-5:00pm Classroom BA3
Thursday: 3:30pm-5:00pm Classroom BA3
What is CyberPatriot?
CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created to inspire K-12 students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our nation's future. At the core of the program is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, the nation's largest cyber defense competition that puts high school and middle school students in charge of securing virtual networks. Other programs include AFA CyberCamps, an elementary school cyber education initiative, a children’s literature series, and CyberGenerations –a cyber safety initiative geared toward keeping senior citizens safe online
Competition Overview
CyberPatriot’s National Youth Cyber Defense Competition challenges teams to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in virtual operating systems. Using a proprietary competition system, teams are scored on how secure they make the system. Top teams advance through the online round of competition, and the best of the best advance to the in-person National Finals Competition.
Each team has two challenges during their six-hour competition period:
Network Security Challenge: involves finding and fixing security vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux operating systems.
Cisco Networking Challenge: consists of an online quiz and a virtual networking exercise based on specific training materials.