C-YAC — Cyber Youth Advisory Council

About

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What C-YAC is

The Cyber Youth Advisory Council. A working council of students aged 12–17 who train as digital protectors, run workshops for younger students and parents, build public portfolios, and feed into an internship pathway.

C-YAC is not a club. It’s an engine — a way for the cybersecurity community to compound its reach into the next generation, and a way for that generation to find a community that takes them seriously.

Brand Bundle — C-YAC

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Brand anchor: R2 #34 — chunky 16-bit pixel art purple yak with dark sunglasses.

Each row below is the same concept generated with three different image models. Pick the cell that best lands the brief for each row, then we lock the production pipeline.

Section A — Character poses

A1 · Idle front

canonical reference pose

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

A2 · Walking side

profile / mid-stride

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

A3 · Waving hello

bipedal greeting

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

A4 · Thumbs up

CTA / approval

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

A5 · Thinking pose

contemplative, question marks

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

Section B — T-shirt mockups

B1 · Black tee + "C-YAC"

yak chest + wordmark

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

B2 · Charcoal tee + "I HACK FOR GOOD"

tagline-led design

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

B3 · White tee + scatter pattern

all-over multi-pose yaks

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

Section C — Sticker mockups

C1 · Die-cut on laptop

single-yak sticker in context

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

C2 · "C-YAC" wordmark sticker

yak peeks from behind text

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

C3 · "I HACK FOR GOOD" sticker

horizontal tagline sticker

Flux

Seedream

Gemini

How to give feedback

For each row, pick the cell (Flux / Seedream / Gemini) that best lands the brief. Send back a list like:

BSides Cayman · Teen Track

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C-YAC members take a dedicated track at the community security conference — nine teen-delivered talks alongside the adult programme.

Sample talks:

“What the For You Page is actually optimising for”
“How we built a phishing-link detector that beat three university teams”
“Deepfakes in the group chat — a field guide”

Speaking slots are open to any chapter member who pitches a talk. Students write, rehearse, and deliver; specialists mentor.

Placeholder event — line-up is illustrative and will be replaced before launch.

C-YAC Brand Package (Flux)

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Engine locked: Flux. Cleanest chunky-pixel form, best style consistency, pixel-block typography works on it.

Thirty curated assets across six sections: brand marks, pose library, lockups, apparel, stickers, and format variants. All on the same generation engine for visual consistency. Production-ready as a starter — pick what to refine, what to swap, what to add.

1 · Brand marks

Four canonical mark variants. The first is the official idle-front; the rest are alternate framings for use where the canonical doesn't fit.

Capstone Night

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The annual regional capstone — every Cayman chapter presents the work it made this year to a live audience of parents, teachers, and host organisations.

On the night:

Each chapter runs a 15-minute showcase — manifesto performances, build demos, dispatch readings, contest entries.
Students MC the whole evening. Adults are in the audience, not on the mic.
A closing “hacker for good” pledge said aloud by every member present.

Placeholder event — details, line-up, and RSVP are illustrative and will be replaced before launch.

Contact

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Send us a note

One sentence about your situation is enough to get a conversation going. Student, parent, school, library, community group, sponsor — whichever fits.

For Host Organisations

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A C-YAC chapter needs three things from a host organisation: a room, an adult lead, and a critical mass of curious students aged 12–17. We provide the rest.

Who hosts chapters

Schools — public and private, primary into secondary.
Home-schooling co-ops, microschools, and learning pods — chapters at the co-op or microschool level, run inside your community at its own pace.
Community youth groups — faith-community youth groups, scouts, sports clubs, community-centre teen programmes.
Library teen programmes — increasingly common. Libraries already do teen-focused programming; this slots in.

Setup

A founding cohort of four to twelve students. Smaller works for the pilot term; expand once it lands.

For Parents

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C-YAC — the Cyber Youth Advisory Council — is for students aged 12–17 who want to be more than passive recipients of digital-safety messaging. They want to teach the year below them. They want to inform the adults around them. They want a portfolio.

If that sounds like your student, this page is for you.

What it asks of your student

Time. Two to four hours a month is the baseline. More if they want to lead a workshop, host a parent night, or take on a portfolio project — and many do, by choice.

For Students

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You already know more about how these platforms feel from the inside than most of the adults in your life. What we offer is a way to turn that fluency into a skill set, a portfolio, and — if you stay with it — a career.

C-YAC is not a club

It’s a working council. You’ll teach. You’ll run workshops. You’ll host parent nights and stand in front of the parents of your school and explain — better than we ever could — what is actually on the platforms their kids use.

Harbour High

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Joint Parent Night

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A cross-chapter evening where students teach the parents — the inversion that defines C-YAC.

On the night:

Live walkthroughs of the apps and platforms parents are most worried about.
A no-judgement Q&A — parents ask, students answer.
Take-home family digital-life playbook built by the chapters.

Run jointly by all four Cayman chapters; younger members shadow to learn how to host next year.

Placeholder event — details are illustrative and will be replaced before launch.

Mascot Draft Set

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Round 3 — pixel art (anchored on R2 #34, #35, #39)

Twenty-five new variations all in pixel-art aesthetic, exploring action poses (anchored on R2 #34 — the chunky full-body sprite), head-icon variants (R2 #35), chibi sub-style (R2 #39), and pixel-era / palette variations.

Tell us which numbers from Round 3 to pursue (3–5) plus what to push further. We refine those into the final mascot system.

A. Pixel action poses — nine variations

51Idle stanceflux

52Running rightflux

53Sitting + laptopflux

54Soccer kickflux

55Arms-crossed defiantflux

56Casting spellflux

57Victory poseflux

58Napping (ZZZ)flux

59Hacking keyboardflux

B. Pixel head-icon variants — six variations

6032x32 portrait iconflux

6124x24 emojiflux

62EGA paletteflux

63Laughing headflux

64Profile viewflux

65Winkflux

C. Chibi pixel — four variations

66Oversized hornsflux

67Big encrypt-keyflux

68Tiny hoodieflux

69Pair (big + small)flux

D. Pixel-era + context — six variations

70Polished + scanlinesseed

71Game Boy mono (purple)seed

72Isometric tiny worldseed

73Plush + pixel hybridseed

74Synthwave cityseed

753-frame animationgemini

How to give feedback

Reply with the numbers from Round 3 (3–5) plus a sentence each on what to push further. We refine into the final mascot system.

Northwood Academy

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Privacy

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Short answer: no tracking around here.

C-YAC is a youth cybersecurity programme. It would be a poor fit for our brief to track you.

What we do, plainly

Cloudflare-only analytics, cookieless, no profile. We use Cloudflare Web Analytics. It loads a small JavaScript beacon from cloudflareinsights.com to record pageviews and page-load timing. It sets no cookies, doesn’t fingerprint, doesn’t build a cross-site profile, and doesn’t share data with advertising networks. Your IP is truncated by Cloudflare before it’s stored.
No advertising trackers. No Facebook Pixel. No Google Analytics. No retargeting beacons. No conversion-pixel network.
No cookies set by us. A small set of Cloudflare-managed cookies may exist on the connection layer for performance and bot mitigation; those are not used to profile you.
No newsletter sign-up without your explicit action. If you submit the contact form, it goes straight into our own collector (no third-party forms provider). It is used solely to respond to your enquiry.
No selling, no sharing, no surprise integrations. Your contact info is for our team and the volunteer specialists you’re matched with — nothing else.

What we use, when we use it

Cloudflare — hosts the site and provides server-side analytics. Their privacy posture is on their site.
Our own form collector — the contact form at /contact/ posts to an endpoint we run on Cloudflare. Your submission goes into a database we own. No third-party forms provider sees it.
No font requests at all. We name Roboto and Roboto Slab in our CSS, but we don’t load font files from anywhere — not from Google, not even from our own server. If you have those fonts installed (most Android/ChromeOS users do), your browser uses them; otherwise it falls back to your operating system’s default sans-serif. Either way, your IP doesn’t go anywhere for type.
Email-address obfuscation. Cloudflare auto-injects a small script (email-decode.min.js) that obfuscates the hello@cyberyac.com link in our HTML so scrapers can’t harvest it. The script runs only to re-render the address for you to click. It doesn’t track and doesn’t talk to anyone outside Cloudflare.
Spam protection on the contact form. The /contact/ form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-preserving challenge that confirms you’re a person rather than a bot. It loads a small script from challenges.cloudflare.com. Turnstile is Cloudflare’s alternative to reCAPTCHA, built to avoid the privacy problems of the alternatives: it doesn’t profile you across sites and isn’t used to build an advertising profile. It runs only on the contact page, and only to keep our inbox free of automated spam.

How long we keep your submission

Contact-form submissions are hard-deleted from our database once they’re more than a year old. If you’d like us to delete yours sooner, write to us at the email below and we’ll remove it the same day.

Riverside School

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Summit College

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The Pledge

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I am a hacker — for good.

That’s the pledge. Said aloud, by every member, at the start of every chapter session — Year 9 and Year 12, first day and last.

It’s six words, and it does a lot of work.

What it means

“I am a hacker” — we keep the word on purpose. A hacker is someone who understands how a system actually works, well enough to bend it. That’s a skill, not a crime. We claim it.