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    2020 DOD CySP Texas A&M University
    Cybersecurity Center; TAMU; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14641/345; DOD-National Security Agency
    Project Description: The Texas A&M Cybersecurity Center's CTF outreach program’s goal was to develop and deploy a CTF-based engine for students, teachers, and schools participating in the SkillsUSA Texas and TIVA institutions. Although Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 witnessed most schools still in virtual learning mode and all face-to-face conferences either canceled or moved to a virtual format, the Texas SkillsUSA Cyber competition was held virtually. To prepare the highschool students a short “teaser” ctf competition was help in fall 2020. This was the first year that the Texas A&M TAMUctf development team developed and hosted the Texas SkillsUSA cyber competition, which had three two-student teams from two Texas high schools. The CTF competition was a one-day event lasting six hours, allowing the student development team to improvise and modify the CTF format as the day progressed. The development team paused the CTF based on feedback received during the competition and provided short "lessons" on the challenges that the competitors struggled with. The most significant highlight of the project was that one of the Texas teams secured second place in the National SkillsUSA competition, with the Texas competition being a significant factor in their win. The TAMUctf development team has been requested to develop and host the Texas Competition for 2022!