picoCTF - Community

picoCTF Discord Server

For chat, logistic, technical or other issues...

A community Discord server for general conversation around picoCTF, team recruitment for competitors, discussion about picoCTF open-source development, or casual chat.

Click here to join the server.

This server is not intended for competition challenge help, and will not be monitored by problem developers. Spoilers or flag sharing during competition will be grounds for removal.

picoCTF in the Classroom

Teachers, are you interested in picoCTF student ambassadors coming to your classrooms? Carnegie Mellon University students will assist with onboarding students to picoCTF and review basic security engineering concepts, methods and terminology. Our ambassadors make it easier for teachers to adopt the picoCTF platform and provide students and teachers with access to actual security and privacy engineers.

Email other@picoctf.org to get more information from the team.

Carnegie Mellon University students interested in volunteering as a picoCTF student ambassador should contact Megan Kearns through university email.

Note: For 2022, we have funding to travel in and around Pittsburgh only. We are happy to work with other universities to expand the program.

NSA GenCyber

In-Person Summer Camp for Teachers

Carnegie Mellon University will host a NSA GenCyber experience for high school teachers online and in person Summer 2023. The picoCTF for GenCyber Teacher Program (2023) by Carnegie Mellon University is designed for 10th to 12th-grade U.S. high-school computer science teachers who are interested to learn how to use online cybersecurity Capture-The-Flag (CTF) problems and competitions to introduce cybersecurity knowledge and skills to their students and to increase student interest in cybersecurity careers.

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