Grok Cyber Comp is coming to Australian Schools in May

Introduce students to cyber security in a free 45-minute online competition

Students will learn:

why it is important to protect personal information
how to create stronger passwords
how to identify scam emails
how website and app builders protect from cyber attacks

This is a free competition for students in Years 5-12, open for 2 weeks from 31 May to 13 June.

Find out more about Grok Cyber

During the 2 week competition window, students sign in to the Grok Learning platform and complete a 45-minute interactive challenge.

They will be presented with questions that explore common cyber security issues they may encounter in their digital lives using our own custom built social media networks on fake web browsers and a simulated mobile phone. It all takes place inside the Grok Platform, all you have to do is have them registered.

Full details about the competition are available at grokacademy.org/grok-cyber.

Why Grok Cyber Comp?

School is busy. Grok Cyber Comp is designed to fit into many learning situations:

as a whole class activity
during pastoral care
to address ICT Capabilities
as a Digital Technologies lesson
a digital citizenship activity
building digital literacy
in extra curricular clubs
home schooling

Teachers will be provided with additional resources and curriculum alignment information as part of the competition.

Get involved: register, assign and compete

To get your school involved:

Register your students on Grok Learning now, following the steps in our help guide
Either assign students to the correct challenge for their year level from the Teacher Dashboard, or provide students with the following links so that students can directly access the competition:
Year 5/6 students:   cmp.ac/cybercomp56
Year 7/8 students:   cmp.ac/cybercomp78
Year 9+ students:   cmp.ac/cybercomp912
Come back to the Comp on or after 31 May, when the problems are released, and go!

Help us to spread the word: share, tag, and win!

We need your help getting the word out to schools!

We'd love you to share the details about Grok Cyber Comp on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn.

The prize: we have five fake social media posts and messages up for grabs that students see as they do the comp. Use it for a funny reference to a colleague, your school or your principal! Some posts may include an image too. If you want your message to be inside a National Comp seen by thousands, here's your chance! Competition details are below.

If you have any questions about Grok Cyber Comp, please send us an email.

Happy Coding!

Christie and Nicola

Grok Academy

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Share, tag and win: the details

Any place you post, use the hashtag #grokcyber, tag us (@grokacademy) and include this link: cmp.ac/GrokCyberNL

We'll select the top 5 posts* that help us share and promote the comp, and work with the teachers to create 5 kid friendly fictitious messages or posts in the phone that students will see in the comp.

To be eligible, please share your posts by 8am May 24 (AEST) so we have time to get those messages onto our platform.

*as selected by our team - get creative, let your followers know why cyber security matters, and what your students have enjoyed about our previous cyber security activities.

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