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CYBER YOUTH
ADVISORY COUNCIL

A network of students aged 12–17 who teach, publish, and run things — about the internet we actually live in. Made by us. Backed by adults who treat us like collaborators, not problems to solve.

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// MISSION

WHAT THIS IS

A working council. Not a club. Chapters at schools, libraries, youth groups, home-school co-ops worldwide. Every chapter owns its own page on this network and posts the work it actually made.

You publish here. On your terms. We provide curriculum, volunteer specialists, and the chapter-to-chapter network. You provide the voice.

// PLEDGE

I AM A HACKER
— FOR GOOD.

The line that opens every chapter session — said aloud, by every member, every time. ▶ Read the pledge

What's in it for you: a way to make the internet safer for your friends and family — and a real hand in shaping the world you actually want to live in.

// ACTIVITIES

HACK-A-THONS & CTF

The hands-on, competitive side of C-YAC. Hack-a-thons and Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges run across chapters — points, leaderboards, and very real bragging rights.

From hacking hardware, to lockpicking, to security-testing AI — you learn how things actually break, so you know how to defend them.

// PROJECTS

WHAT YOU ACTUALLY DO

The deliverables — and what's in it for you:

Peer-teach. A C-YAC student trained today is the volunteer expert who teaches the year-below-them next year. You design and run sessions for younger students at your school or in your community.
Host parent nights. Stand alongside (or instead of) the adult facilitator and show the parents of your community what the actual platforms look like — the dark patterns, the recommendation algorithms, the in-app currency loops. The single most powerful thing C-YAC does, because nobody else can.
Build a public portfolio. Articles, talks, workshop materials you authored, demonstrations you ran. By Year 12, this is a CV that opens doors.
Pair with volunteer specialists. Cybersecurity practitioners, designers, educators, psychologists. You bring the question, they bring the lens.
Feed into internships. Local businesses and partner organisations offer internships to C-YAC students. Cybersecurity becomes a path, not a far-off field.

▸ SELECT YOUR REGION

▶ CAYMAN ISLANDS 4 schools · 67 students · 12 chapters ● ACTIVE UNITED KINGDOM 2 schools · 31 students · pilot ◐ PILOT Q3 '26 YOUR COUNTRY — · — · start the first chapter ◌ UNLOCK

▸ LATEST FROM THE NETWORK

▶ NORTHWOOD · CAPSTONE · 2026

"WE ARE NOT YOUR ALGORITHM"

Year-12s · live to 200 parents · May 8

Forty-minute manifesto-performance on attention-economy design. Recording + script on the Northwood page.

▶ DISPATCHES · ISSUE 04

COVER + CONTRIBUTORS

47 teens · 12 chapters · 64 pages

Anonymised testimony on what it's actually like to be 15 online today.

▶ CONTEST · 2ND PLACE

CAYMAN CYBER WEEK · TEEN TRACK

Northwood chapter · phishing-link detector

Beat three university teams. Adults still bring this up.

THE STUDENTS WHO LEARN THIS BEST
ARE THE ONES WHO GO ON TO TEACH IT.

— FOUNDING PRINCIPLE