In 2025, NW Cyber Camp was available at college campuses across Oregon including in Bend, Corvallis, Eugene, Gresham, Klamath Falls, Oregon City, and Portland. Seven Oregon college campuses were home to NW Cyber Camp, challenging more than 130 high school students to solve a workplace cyber mystery. Students played the role of a Network Analyst at a game design company and followed an anomaly in the network logs to uncover a scheme. The simulation was an engaging way to learn about cybersecurity occupations, discuss ethics, and practice using the OSINT, cryptography and log analysis tools they learned during camp.
Funding was provided by various resources including GenCyber and the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, making the career exploration opportunity free to Oregon teens.
THANK YOU FOR HOSTING NW CYBER CAMP!
- University of Oregon
- Central Oregon Community College
- Clackamas Community College
- Mt. Hood Community College
- Oregon Institute of Technology
- Oregon State University
- Portland State University
After Cyber Camp . . .
>Capture The Flag
The 72 hour jeopardy-style Capture The Flag (CTF) for high school students began at 8pm on Friday, February 13th and wrapped up at 8pm on Monday February 16th. Players revisited some topics from summer cyber camp like Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), forensics, cryptography, and log analysis and challenge themselves on other concepts like enumeration and exploitation, web application exploitation and more. Before the CTF, registered players had access to a practice gym. “Working out” in the online gym helped players get strong and familiar with the platform, topics and challenges.
Congratulations to our Top Ten scorers!
>Cyber Con 2025
Portland Community College’s Computer Information Systems Department and NW Cyber Camp, a program of the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, teamed up to offer high school students a free day of Career Connected Learning on Oregon’s statewide teacher in-service training day.
Fifty Cyber Camp graduates and other Oregon teens interested in cybersecurity met inspiring speakers and selected from a variety of workshops provided by our college and industry partners.