We break things to learn how to defend them.
The Cyber Defense Club at Your High School. We compete in CTFs, run hands-on workshops, and train the next generation of security professionals — no experience required.
About the club
We're a student-run club focused on practical cybersecurity: capture-the-flag competitions, network defense, digital forensics, and ethical hacking fundamentals. Meetings mix short lessons with hands-on labs on our own isolated practice network.
We meet every Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30–5:00 PM in Room 204. Everyone is welcome — most of our members had never touched a terminal before joining.
Leadership
Alex Rivera
Senior. Leads CTF strategy and weekly meetings. Specialty: web exploitation and binary analysis.
Jordan Chen
Junior. Runs the beginner track and onboarding. Specialty: networking and Linux administration.
Sam Okafor
Senior. Organizes competition teams and practice challenges. Specialty: cryptography and forensics.
Priya Nair
Sophomore. Keeps notes, schedules, and the member wiki up to date. Specialty: OSINT.
Marcus Lee
Junior. Manages the budget, fundraising, and competition travel. Specialty: cloud security.
Ms. Dana Whitfield
Computer Science teacher. Keeps us funded, sponsored, and out of trouble.
Accomplishments
2nd Place — State CyberPatriot Finals STATE
Our varsity team placed second out of 64 schools in the platinum tier, our best finish yet.
Top 10% — picoCTF 2026
Three club teams finished in the top 10% of over 7,000 competing teams worldwide.
Hosted first inter-school CTF
Designed and ran 25 original challenges for 80 students from five area high schools.
Record recruitment year
42 active members — nearly double last year — with a dedicated beginner track.
Helpful links
picoCTF
Beginner-friendly CTF practice from Carnegie Mellon. Start here.
CyberPatriot
The national youth cyber defense competition we compete in each fall.
OverTheWire
Classic wargames for learning Linux and security basics in your browser.
TryHackMe
Guided, hands-on security labs. Great for the beginner track.
CTFtime
Calendar of upcoming CTF competitions worldwide.
Club Discord
Replace this with your Discord invite, Google Classroom, or signup form.
Member portal
Meeting notes, practice VPN configs, competition credentials, and internal docs live behind the login. Ask an officer for your account.