CyberPatriot
What is CyberPatriot?
CyberPatriot is the Air Force Association's 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 center of CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, which puts teams of high school and middle school students in the position of newly hired IT professionals tasked with managing the network of a small company. Through a series of online competition rounds, teams are given a set of virtual operating systems and are tasked with finding and fixing cybersecurity vulnerabilities while maintaining critical services. The top teams in the nation earn all-expenses-paid trips to Maryland for the National Finals Competition where they can earn national recognition and scholarship money.
The Group 1 CyberPatriot Team
Led by the Group 1 Aerospace Education Officer and CyberPatriot coach Capt Ben Bracken, and supported by technical mentor Capt Uri Shatten, the Pennsylvania Wing Group 1 staff look forward to forming the 2022-2023 season team to get ready to compete.
To learn more, please email bbracken@cap602.org