NB CyberTitans

As a coach, make sure you go through the Competition webpages on the CyberPatriot site. You should be familiar with the rules, and how the competition plays out.

Before October:

Register your team(s). Recommended that you have 4 or 5 students. A 6th student can be part of the team as an alternate. The alternate is not supposed to participate during the actual competition, unless a regular team member cannot particpate.
Organize to have three computers per team. Two images for Round#1, but 3 images for Round#2. Contact your District Technology Supervisor for the computers. The specifications are 64-bit, Win10, Duo Core 8GB RAM, however the actual minimum specs are on the CyberPatriot Website --> Competition --> Competiton Overview --> Technical Specifications. Software required is VMWare 14.2.1+ and Cisco Packet Tracer 7.1
All teams will participate in at least 3 rounds. The first two round scores are added together to determine placement in tiers (platinum, gold, silver). Rounds 4 and 5 are based on scores earned to date, and are elimination rounds.
Check the dates. The January round has traditionally been around the time of high school exams. Plan accordingly.

Week Preceding a Round:

Download images from provided site, and available on the computer (images can take a while to download, and unzip)
Read the email. There are often little things to note.

During a Round:

Have team ID from the CyberPatriot Coach's Dashboard.
Have the password from the email sent out at 10AM Friday morning.
VMWare - lagging (especially Win10 images) - try increasing the RAM assigned to VMWare in virtual machine settings.
Have a copy of each image on a USB stick, just in case something goes wrong and a team needs to restart their image from scratch.

Cisco:

Must have signed up as a coach, and completed the hour long training lessons.
Start a Content Course for students to complete. Each round questions are based on Modules that students were to study for that round. The modules from which the questions are based are identified in the emails from CyberPatriot.
Cisco Challenge portion of the competition is separate from securing the images.
During the round: Students logon to Cisco, and take the Competition Course. They need to login with the credentials found on the Coach's Dashboard.
Students will use Packet Tracer for the event.

Basic Timeline. See the rule book for clarity.

May/June: Recruit teams for CP XI. Exhibition Round #1 (Late May - early June)
July/August: Exhibition Round #2
Sept/October: Training Round
Nov-Jan: First three rounds, Everyone competes in the first 2 rounds, which teams are then put into Tiers. Third Round everyone competes, but teams will be eliminated.
Feb: Round 4, Top teams compete (top 25% of each Tier roughly)
April/May: Final competition (Top 12 teams compete)

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