CyberPatriot season XI is open and will remain open until 3 Oct 2018! Sponsored by Northrup Gumman, the CyberPatriot is a National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the US Air Force Association to inspire K-12 students toward careers in cybersecurity or other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines critical to our future. While it is a US program, youth from around the world are invited to participate.
To register visit CyberPatriot Registratration -- register as a coach, team, technical mentor, or team assistant.
Program Benefits Provided by Cisco include: NetLabs (Integration into local and regional Competitions), Skills Development (for Students & Instructors), Online Competition, Cisco Engineers as Local Mentors, the Cisco Networking Challenge, Access to Packet Tracer and Instructor Professional Development.
A focal point of CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition. The competition has teams of high school and middle school students acting in the role of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company.
In the rounds of competition, teams are given a set of virtual images that represent operating systems and are tasked with finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities within the images and hardening the system while maintaining critical services. Teams compete for the top placement within their state or region, with top teams earning an all-expenses-paid trip to Baltimore, MD for the National Finals Competition where they can earn recognition and scholarship money.
CyberPatriot is an English-speaking competition based in the US. Visit the CyberPatriot Program Website for more information.