A C-YAC chapter needs three things from a host organisation: a room, an adult lead, and a critical mass of curious students aged 12–17. We provide the rest.
Who hosts chapters
- Schools — public and private, primary into secondary.
- Home-schooling co-ops, microschools, and learning pods — chapters at the co-op or microschool level, run inside your community at its own pace.
- Community youth groups — faith-community youth groups, scouts, sports clubs, community-centre teen programmes.
- Library teen programmes — increasingly common. Libraries already do teen-focused programming; this slots in.
Setup
A founding cohort of four to twelve students. Smaller works for the pilot term; expand once it lands.
A designated adult lead from your side. A teacher, a parent, a librarian, a youth-worker. Not a cybersecurity expert — we bring those. Your lead handles logistics, safeguarding, calendar.
A meeting room, weekly or fortnightly, for a school year. Phones away, paper and sticky notes available. We’ll send the supply list before the first session.
What we bring
- Curriculum and run-of-show materials. Everything a teacher would have. Speaker notes, handouts, facilitator cheat sheets.
- Volunteer specialists for periodic deep-dives. Cybersecurity practitioners, designers, psychologists, educators.
- A safeguarding framework. Background-checked volunteers; designated-adult presence at every session; clear escalation paths.
- Regional C-YAC network. Your students collaborate with their counterparts at other host organisations — joint events, shared projects, peer review.
What you bring
The room. The calendar. The adult lead. The trust your students already have in your organisation.
Funding
We work with partner organisations and grant funders to cover chapter costs at no charge to the host or the families. If your organisation can sponsor a chapter — or wants to — let’s talk.
How a pilot scopes
The default pilot is one term, eight to twelve sessions. By the end:
- Your students have a portfolio piece each (a talk, a workshop they ran, an article they wrote).
- One parent night has happened, with the students leading.
- One younger-cohort workshop has been delivered.
After the pilot, the question is simple — does this look worth scaling? If yes, we discuss continuation. Each step gates the next.
Get in touch
hello@cyberyac.com — one sentence about your organisation and the students you serve. We’ll set up a thirty-minute call inside a few days.