Those participating in a free computer security gamified education program developed by Carnegie Mellon University security and privacy experts are invited to demonstrate their cybersecurity smarts in the 2022 picoCTF competition.

Anyone aged 13 and up is invited to reverse-engineer, break, hack, decrypt and think creatively and Source: Carnegie Mellon University critically to solve challenges and capture digital flags. During the competition, which spans a two-week period from March 15 to March 29, participants will be presented with real-life cybersecurity challenges created by the university’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning. Challenges are designed to start off easy and gradually increase in difficulty.

The program is intended to end the global shortage of cybersecurity professionals by piquing the interest primarily of middle and high school teams. However, university-level students and even industry professionals are welcome to compete in the 2022 picoCTF event.