Bi-weekly, High School Cybersecurity Workshops (2025-2026)


In the Fall of 2025 through January of 2026, T.Weeks held bi-weekly, virtual-zoom, Cybersecurity 1-2hr workshops for groups of homeschool / high schoolers across the state of Virginia in the Cybersecurity categories of:


This was to form homeschool teams across Virginia to compete in the 2026 Virginia HS Cyber Cup CTF competition: https://www.vacybercup.org/


Below are links to the archives of the resulting 14-15hrs of archived workshop videos.


This is a great resource for kids wanting to get into IT/Cybersecurity, Linux and Capture the Flag competitions, and the IT professions in general.


Bi-Weekly Cyber Circuit - Virtual Cyber Cup Club Meetings:

8/22 - Parent Info Meeting

9/9 - Bi-Weekly Cyber Circuit - Virtual Cyber Cup Club Meeting # 00 (starting CTF play)

9/23 -Cyber Circuit Meeting 0x01 - Hexed Videos & Labs

-Watch  "what hexadecimal is" video to understand the theory, then

-Follow directions in my slides #45-48 here to prepare your C.Range VM

-Watch/Follow Gameboy ROM hacking directions in this long video on hexadecimal and how to hack a gameboy ROM with a hex editor.

10/15 - Meeting 0x02 - "The Linux Command Line & Brigante"

10/28 - Meeting - 0x03 - Brigante Levels 10-15 + Wireshark Web Client/Server Sniffing

11/11 - Meeting - 0x04 - More Brigante & More In Depth Wireshark Packet Analysis

11/25 - Meeting - 0x05 - OSINT and Networking Reconnaissance Challenges

12/16 - Meeting - 0x06 - Forensics & Reconnaissance Challenges
01/13 - Meeting - 0x07 - Forensics, Reverse Engineering & Web challenges

01/27 - Meeting - 0x08 - Making Your Own  Kali Live Boot USB Drive! (still needs some edits)