{"id":3277,"date":"2020-01-13T13:33:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T13:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2020-01-13T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T13:33:03","slug":"cyberfirst-girls-competition-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/cyberfirst-girls-competition-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberFirst Girls Competition 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<section class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"main-content blog-post\">\n<div>\n<p>CyberFirst is a key part of the UK government\u2019s National Cyber Security Programme. It covers a broad range of activities, which includes a girls only competition.\u00a0Young girls and women don\u2019t often consider a career in cyber security, which means that industry is missing out on a lot of young talented people. This competition is a great start to get young girls motivated and interested in this sector.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are made up of up to four girls, who have to work their way through a series of online cyber challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The 2020 CyberFirst Girls Competition will include a Scotland final, on <strong>Saturday 8th February<\/strong>. The winning team will be guaranteed a place in the UK Grand Final in Wales in March.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div>\n<p>You can read some testimonials in the blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/cyber-resilience\/2020\/01\/08\/cyber-first-girls-competition-theres-still-time-to-sign-up\/\">post<\/a> from Hyndland Secondary, who came 18th in the UK last year.<\/p>\n<p>Registration closes on\u00a0<strong>21st January 2020, so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsc.gov.uk\/cyberfirst\/girls-competition\">sign up<\/a>\u00a0quickly!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CyberFirst is a key part of the UK government\u2019s National Cyber Security Programme. It covers a broad range of activities, which includes a girls only competition.\u00a0Young girls and women don\u2019t often consider a career in cyber security, which means that industry is missing out on a lot of young talented people. This competition is a great start to get young girls motivated and interested in this sector. Teams are made up of up to four girls, who have to work&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}