CyberSafe (Gen Z Competition)
An escape room/scavenger hunt puzzle event where high school participants get to reverse engineer, break, hack, decrypt, and use as many cyber security tools as they can to escape a digital attack.
Students will learn about and use techniques such as cryptography, Cipher Disks, Cesar’s Codes in order to crack codes and decipher texts that will lead them to the next step of the puzzle. The participants will also create their own messages and other groups must try to decipher them to land the first place in the event.
The hints and puzzles will be revolving around different cyber security techniques and social media and internet safety skills by solving logic puzzles, cryptograms, do and don’t activities, word scrambles, multiple choice questions to obtain the needed codes to solve the game.