The largest school cybersecurity competition in Armenia, “CyberQuest” 2025, concluded its final stage on December 25, summarizing weeks of active competition that involved 1850 students from 230 schools. Out of 420 registered teams, 15 teams advanced to the final stage.

“CyberQuest” is designed for students in grades 6–9. The structure of the competition combines logical questions, puzzles, and simplified tasks on cybersecurity topics.

During the event, Shant Kassardjian, Director of Cybersecurity at the ISAA, delivered the opening speech, emphasizing that the goal of the competition is to form an active student community that will best demonstrate itself in secure digital behavior, data protection, and timely response to cyber threats.

The competition showed that students are ready not only to learn but also to compete in the field of cutting-edge technologies. Future cyber heroes are formed from school age.

As a result of the final stage, the winning teams were also determined:

• 1st place — “Cyber Eagles”, Secondary School No. 161 named after G. Nzhdeh
• 2nd place — Alpha Cyber, Secondary School No. 1 named after Aram and Hasmik Karamanyan, Ayntap
• 3rd place — shared by two teams: Mind Hackers_ArtSTEM, “ArtSTEM” Lyceum / Mind Hackers_Global Bridge, “Global Bridge” Educational Complex

We congratulate the teams that took the prize-winning places and wish them new achievements.

The “CyberQuest” competition is organized on the initiative of the Ministry of High-Tech Industry of the Republic of Armenia and the Information Systems Agency of Armenia, and is implemented by the “Contests Lab” educational NGO.