Voting is Hard Virtual Workshop September 19
2022-09-19 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
When ordering pizza with your friends, how do you decide what toppings to get? If coming to a consensus among a small group is so hard, how do we make decisions as a community, society, and species? In this workshop, we will talk about one of the core elements of good citizenship: voting. To discuss what a fair voting system looks like, we’ll need to draw on STEM fields such as Economics and Game Theory, and understand the rich history of the topic from the French Revolution to Nobel Prize-winning research.
About the Presenter: Drew Lipman earned his doctorate from Clemson University where he studied mathematics and statistics. There, he developed an interest in applying math in novel ways to real world problems. Before coming to MITRE, he worked on problems in far flung areas ranging from publishing to airplane rental to oil and gas extraction.
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Join Cyber Challenge 2022: Ninth Annual Capture the Flag
2022-12-10 - 2022-12-11
In support of STEM outreach, MITRE and our partners are hosting the 9th annual national Capture the Flag (CTF) competition December 10 – 11, 2022.
This CTF competition aims to encourage and promote interest in cybersecurity. United States-based high school and undergraduate college students will have the opportunity to compete in cybersecurity challenges to gain real-life experience and win national coverage to make a huge impact on our cyber talent pipelines.

Learn: Fundamental cyber knowledge by using online resources from MITRE and other publicly available reputable sources.
Understand: Binary exploitation and reversing, web exploitation, computer/network forensics, cryptography, and more!
Practice: Using Web resources and training challenges powered by the MITRE Cyber Academy™.
Compete: Against students in high school and undergraduate universities across the nation.
Win: Cash Prizes.

Notable industry and academic experts have partnered together to design rigorous challenges for students to solve. Participating in teams of four or five, students will gain valuable experience, skills and tools throughout this nationwide competition.
Registration is open now through the end of the competition. For more information about the event, visit https://mitrecyberacademy.org/competitions/.

Register for the 2023 Embedded Capture the Flag Competition
2022-12-22 - 2023-02-01
2023 Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) Competition
The Embedded Capture the Flag (eCTF) is an embedded security competition run by MITRE in partnership with Riverside Research that puts participants through the experience of trying to create a secure system and then learning from their mistakes. The main target is a real physical embedded device, which opens the scope of the challenge to include physical/proximal access attacks.
Last Day to Register Before Kick-off is January 17, 2023
Team registration is now open for the 2023 eCTF. Students at all academic levels are welcome to participate. Team sizes are unlimited and must be sponsored by a faculty member. This form is only meant to be filled out by faculty advisors. Late registration closes on February 1, 2023.
Teams will design and implement a key fob system for a car door lock. The system must protect the car from unauthorized entry and prevent attacks like replays and key fob cloning.
The 2023 competition will run from January 18th through April 19th with an award ceremony on April 26th.
For more information visit the eCTF website.

Learn to Code with Python Virtual Workshop February 16
2023-02-16 17:00 - 18:00
With hundreds of programming languages available, how do you know where to start? Python is one of the most widely used and easy-to-learn programming languages. Python is used for a range of purposes: simple games that you can create in less than an hour to dynamic websites that take months and years to complete.
In this Zoom workshop, you’ll learn the basics of Python and create your very own coding activity! This workshop is open to students of any age who have very little or no experience writing code.
About the Presenter
Alessandra Hagarty is a software engineer at MITRE. Before joining MITRE, she was a classroom teacher, educator, student program director, and operations manager. After over ten years in education, Alessandra decided to switch careers and become a software engineer. She went back to school for computer programming and now works at MITRE developing software for a safer world. Having spent so much time working with youth in various educator roles, she is very passionate about STEM outreach and enabling students of all ages to follow their own passions, even if they don’t know what those passions are yet!
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Intro to Web Virtual Workshop May 11 POSTPONED
2023-05-11 21:11
THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED FROM THE ORIGINAL MAY 11 SESSION. A NEW SIGN-UP LINK WILL BE POSTED WHEN A NEW DATE IS DETERMINED.
We use the Web every day for entertainment, information, business, communication, and a whole lot more. But how does it work? In this workshop, you’ll learn about the fundamental technologies powering the Web, and practice creating your own webpage to show off to your friends. Suitable for students of all ages that can use a web browser.
You can see a preview of this workshop under our courses.
About the Presenter
Richard Preston is a lead engineer at the MITRE Corporation. He graduated Tufts University in 2019 with an MS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Computer Engineering. Since then, Richard has worked on R&D projects spanning a wide variety of technology areas, including network security, machine learning, cloud & edge computing, IT automation, software engineering, and quantum computing. Currently, he leads a research effort aimed at helping software engineers apply quantum algorithms to real-world problems.
