National Center for High-performance Computing Held the 3rd Searching for Girls in Cyber Security Contest, the first time students from abroad were invited

Co-sponsored by the National Center for High-performance Computing of the NARLabs and the Taipei Computer Association, jointly supervised by the National Science and Technology Council and the Ministry of Education, the 3rd GiCS Looking for Girls in Cyber Security competition, having gone through the preliminary rounds, had its final round of competitions on May 6th at the Information Security and Smart Technology R&D Building in Shalun, Tainan. Team "Information Security Little Princess" of Taipei University of Technology and Team "All Students at the Scene" of Feng Chia University won first place in the high school vocational group and the college group, respectively, in the "Information Security Heaven Threshold" contest. Team "VYN" of Datong High School and Team "Wuxinchaliuliuchengzi" of Central University won first place in the high school vocational group and the college group, respectively, in the "Innovative Ideas Contest".


Announcements for the top three teams in the college group and the high school vocational group contests

Chairman Wu Tsung-Tsong of the National Science and Technology Council said during the award ceremony that the 3rd Girls in Cyber Security contest started on March 8 this year, and a total of 3,067 female students from domestic 10-12 vocational schools and colleges signed up. Such fierce competition reaffirms the excellence of the winning teams. He hoped they would further their pursuit and studies. Furthermore, to strengthen international exchanges, the National Science and Technology Council, with additional resources from the private sector, for the first time, had invited students from France, Poland, Japan, India, and other countries to compete, in a separate contest on the same day, with the main contest's domestic contestants. The contest will be followed by efforts to match contestants with businesses or academic institutions for internships, the continued development of STEM, and steps to solidify the training of talent in information security and applied technology.


During the first international contest, Lee Boyi, NCHC team leader for network and cybersecurity gives real-time comments on the competition.

In the 2023 GiCS 3rd Looking for Girls in Cyber Security contest, 15 teams in each group survived the preliminary rounds and advanced to the final round. In the finals of the "Information Security Heaven Threshold" contest, the information security of exhibit items in the building was added to the CTF checkpoints in the main venue in order to test the problem-solving ability of the contestants.

The contestants in the "Innovative Ideas Contest" competed to come up with creative solutions to the problems they had faced in the preliminary rounds. The teams in the final round this year, in an effort to win over the attention and votes of the judges, showed off, through theatrical performances, their creativity in solving issues in scalpers for concert tickets, system robots, and the potential information security problems in Chat GPT.

In this year's final competition, the inter-ministerial collaboration had brought to the competition venue many valuable exhibits for the contestants, such as the Land Game Challenges designed by the Ministry of Education's information security talent cultivation plan, the IoT information security and hacker attack and defense drills designed by the Ministry of Digital Development and its subordinate National Information Security Research Institute, and WinBus self-driving electric minibus test rides offered by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. Additionally, an exhibition area about STEM had been set up inside the building, and a project team from Forward-looking Information Security Technology and the Instrument Center, Animal Center, and the National Center for High-performance Computing, all under the National Applied Research Laboratories (NARLabs), were on hand to showcase information security and scientific research capabilities, and they also joined hands with companies, such as NEC Taiwan, AUO Corporation, Trend Micro, CHT Security, TeamT5, CyCraft Technology, Digiforen Technology, and Shield eXtreme to set up booths so participating students could actually experience how businesses use intelligent applications and learn about what work they might be doing in their future internships.


NARLabs National Center for High-performance Computing exhibited the results of a visual computing application. It showed that scientific experiments would be easier to observe when presented in virtual reality.

The National Science and Technology Council had set up a STEM display and the talent exchange platform in the Girls in Cyber Security competition, and, through vitality growth camps, internship placement, and the promotion of related large-scale activities, the NCHC encouraged students to participate in and experience the latest information security and smart application technology and aroused their interest in in-depth study in STEM-related fields.

(National Science and Technology Council press release)