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CyberStart is a fun and gamified learning experience that makes learning complex topics easy and enjoyable.
The practical and fascinating challenges are complimented with write-ups, videos and audio tutorials in our dedicated Field Manual, allowing for broad and dynamic learning development.
Your students will develop their skills in all of the following areas, plus many more: Cryptography, Password security, Social engineering, Steganography, Network forensics, Reverse engineering, File forensics, Scripting, Hashing, Assembly debugging, Linux command line. Discover how your students can identify the skills they build in CyberStart and see the full list of cybersecurity disciplines they will learn while playing in this blog post.
Students can complete this program fully independently, but school teachers or other group leaders can also sign up to play and learn alongside their students, and can form a group to monitor participation and progress of their class or club!
Find out what some of our students thought of playing CyberStart by reading our blog students share their CyberStart experience.
Why CyberStart helps you develop your students
Compliments the computer science curriculum, covering a huge range of topics!
Monitor students' progress with an awesome Groups feature showing you when work was last completed.
Pushes students beyond classroom learning with practical application and real-world simulations.
What teachers had to say
"I really enjoy seeing the enthusiasm of my students while working on the challenges and their giddiness every time one of them figures out one of tough challenges. It is giving them a great confidence boost."
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"I have only worked on a few of the cryptography challenges, but it is so much fun. My students are having a blast! I love how challenging and intriguing the challenges are!"
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