HTCOTB CTF 2026
Placed 6th of 35 teams by points
Returning to HTCOTB for 2026 was a great opportunity to see how far we had come since our first win! We didnt do quite as well as last year, losing out to the very same team that won MAGPIE last year, but we had a lot of fun with this years challenges!
MAGPIE CTF 2025
Placed 14th of 73 teams by points
After doing so well in HTCOTB 2025, we were invited to compete in MagpieCTF alongside some of the more senior members of the CHADS club! Magpie is an annual Canada wide competition hosted by the CyberSec club at the University of Calgary. The problems here were way more intensive, which was really cool to see! We didnt do quite well enough to dip into the prize pool, but Im really proud of our performance nonetheless!
HTCOTB CTF 2025
🏆 Placed 1st of 70 teams by points
A couple of friends and I decided to try out HTCOTB (Hack the Computer, Open the Box), a hacking competition hosted by CHADS, the UofAs cybersecurity club! Other than a primer on the basics of cryptography, web, and reverse engineering, we essentially went in blind, but to our surprise we managed to solve all but one flag! While we placed second by the competitions format, we secured first place by points, a huge achievement for our first major event!
ESA x IPE Case Comp
Non-finalist
My coworkers and I competed in a economics case competition hosted by the Economics Student Association and the Institude for Public Economics! The focus was on improving job opportunities for disadvantaged groups, and we decided to target application tracking systems (ATS). We proposed a compulsory certification that would assure to applicants that the hiring company isnt feeding bias prone data to automated ranking systems, hopefully reducing machine discrimination!
