Free opportunity for your students to access an immersive cybersecurity learning game worth $150
Encourage your students to register to CyberStart America and access an on-demand learning course that allows them to get hands-on experience with real-world cybersecurity tasks. No textbooks or lectures, just fun, online challenges that build towards highly respected academic outcomes and scholarship opportunities.
Explore CyberStart for yourself
Students will learn by taking on the role of an agent at the Cyber Protection Agency. Watch renowned cybersecurity expert and CyberStart founder, James Lyne walk you through the 200+ challenges and games students will unlock.
You can also try our 60-minute CyberStart experience CyberStart Go, featuring similar sorts of challenges to those that your students will face in CyberStart Game itself.
Revolutionizing cybersecurity education in the United States
CyberStart Game covers a huge range of topics that are up to date, relevant, hands-on and developed by industry experts. No prior knowledge of computer science is required by you or your students to get started!
We become the teacher
Our well-structured and easy to follow platform allows for structured, independent learning without the need for you to plan lessons. No experience in cybersecurity is needed for you to use CyberStart Game.
Perfect for all students
CyberStart Game’s focus on independent, on-demand learning makes cybersecurity accessible for students of all abilities. Students will progress and be challenged relative to their ability in this exciting topic.
Gamified teaching
Cybersecurity is a complex and hands-on topic that can appear daunting. This is why CyberStart Game focuses on fun, high quality and gamified teaching styles that allows students to get hands-on experiences with real-world cybersecurity challenges and tasks. No text books, lectures or traditional learning, just fun and engaging problem-solving challenges that build towards highly respected academic outcomes.
Uncover talent
CyberStart Game has proven to find exceptionally talented students who have pivoted to the industry without necessarily having studied or previously known they were interested in cybersecurity. CyberStart Game helps uncover, educate, and funnel students with a talent for this topic into the industry by developing desired and recognized skills by employers.
What teachers are saying
The programming challenges were amazing, and so were the command line questions. My students were very engaged, I could not get them to leave.
Prior to playing CyberStart, 36% [of students] had an interest in computer science or cybersecurity careers. After playing, 70% did.
It is accessible but not trivial and the Field Manual is a great way to review and enhance skills
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$2 million college scholarships
High scoring students can qualify for the National Cyber Scholarship Competition and compete for life-changing opportunities such as access to a cybersecurity training course worth $3000 and a scholarship to the college of their choice!
Progress badges & awards
Recognition badges and awards will be shared with students and can be used on college and job applications. The portfolio of skills built in CyberStart America will be recognized and desired by employers.
Join a community
CyberStart America communities offer additional support and community-specific awards and can give like-minded students the chance to share their CyberStart experience. We have communities for girls and JROTC students!
Career guidance
Students will be invited to join webinars with leading industry-experts providing advice on how to secure job roles in the indsutry or how to develop and take their transferable skills into any career path! Plus access to lots of great career advice.
Watch the recording of our free information session
This Pathways to Cybersecurity Careers workshop took place December 9 2020 at 4pm ET. Stay tuned for future workshop dates!
Watch workshop recordingEducator FAQs
- How do I get my students involved?
- Can teachers/counselors sign up for CyberStart Game?
- Is it better to run a club or allow students to sign up and play on their own?
- How is CyberStart America different from last year’s GGCS program?
Head on over to our knowledge base for more frequently asked questions.
Introduce
CyberStart turns complex cybersecurity concepts into fun and accessible challenges for students of all abilities.
Develop
An all-in-one cybersecurity learning journey teaching a huge array of cybersecurity topics with challenges ranging from easy to extreme.
Enable
High scoring students will qualify for the National Cyber Scholarship Competition and compete for life-changing opportunities.
Social Media Toolkit
Want to share CyberStart America through your school or district social media channels? Here’s our toolkit of media resources that you’re free to use to promote the program!
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If you require any help or further information email support@cyberstartamerica.org and we'll be happy to help.
FAQs
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