CanHack is divided into 60+ specific challenges spread across four levels, each advancing the story and increasing in difficulty. No experience, nor expertise is necessary and there is nothing to download!
Participants must reverse engineer, break, hack, decrypt, or do whatever it takes to solve the problem statement. At the end of the challenge, students will walk away with a basic understanding of cybersecurity systems and:
Explore new careers |
Leverage our up-to-date digital learning tools to teach the latest tech skills. Introduce students to career possibilities that exist in the growing cybersecurity field and computer science sector.
Access complimentary educational tools |
Access industry approved supplies, lesson plans and guides that cover everything from coding to computational skills in order to create a well-rounded experiential learning opportunities.
Learn cybersecurity skills |
Establish basic digital literacy, cybersecurity and privacy skills by providing hands-on learning for students and introduce them to experts in the field.
In order to participate students must adhere to the following criteria:
There is no fee to participate and students can sign up to compete until October 11, 2019. There is no limit to the number of teams that can represent a single school, and members do not have to attend the same school.
*Students and teams that do not meet these requirements can still participate, but will not be eligible to win contest prizes. Please see competition rules for details.
Canhack 2019 officially goes live on September 27th. Registering below will confirm your entry into the competition. Please note, on September 13th at 12:00pm (noon) you must still register your team on the game site at picoctf.com.
Step 1:
Register as a Supervisor for CanHack 2019 by filling out this form.
Step 2:
Register at picoCTF.com, download and complete their excel sheet, fill out the blanks on participating students. How to do this? Check out Page 13 of our CanHack Guidebook!
Step 3:
Head back over to the CanHack website and submit that same excel sheet to officially register. This can be done here.
Step 4:
Register for the Piazza platform where all participating students can receive help navigating through the challenge from our 20+ cyber security focused mentors. This can be done here.
(please share this link with your students!)