DEFCON KIDS 1 Archives

 

DEFCON Kids 1:

About

The inaugural DEFCON Kids took place on August 6-7, 2011 at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas as part of DEFCON, the largest hacker gathering in the world.

  • Over 200 attendees (100 kids plus parents)
  • $150 to attended the main DEFCON Event
  • 2 conference rooms, 2 days
  • 15 classes, 5 workstations, 6 contests

Premiere Partners:

Classroom Schedule

Workstations:

  • Eggbots
  • DEFCON Badge Clues for Kids
  • Hardware Hacking Station
  • NSA Codebreaking Museum
  • WASP: Unmanned Areal Vehicle + WarTexting

Contest Results: (Coming Soon)

  • Capture the Flag
  • CyFi’s Zero-Day Game
  • Hoff’s NSA Crypto Challenge
  • Chinese Puzzle Box Race
  • iPad Raffle
  • Lockpicking Contest

 

DEFCON Kids 2

DEFCON Kids 2 in Las Vegas is scheduled for July 28-29, 2012 at the Rio Hotel & Casino.  We will have multiple tracks and even more games to coincide with DEFCON 20.

Cory Doctorow, sci-fi writer and coeditor of BoingBoing is confirmed to keynote DEFCON Kids 2 on July 28th!