Cyber Bowl
This October, ten North Carolina universities will compete in a month-long test of cyber skills to earn bragging rights and win prizes.
Join fellow Mountaineers by celebrating National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and playing the Cyber Bowl — a quiz competition that leverages friendly rivalries to raise cybersecurity awareness.
How to play
The Cyber Bowl runs from Thursday, Oct. 1 to Thursday, Oct. 31, and engages students, faculty and staff to build cybersecurity awareness through friendly competition.
- Visit appstate.edu/cyberbowl
- Log in using your App State credentials
- Complete the quiz to earn a point for App State — even if you don't get every answer correct, and to be entered to win prizes
- Encourage your friends and colleagues to play
At the end of the month, two winners will emerge — one winner for the highest participation percentage and one winner for most players.
Giveaways
Players who complete the quiz will also be entered to win prizes!
Information Technology Services (ITS) has the following items to raffle, along with other great prizes at our tabling events — see dates below and drop by!
- Four tickets to the App State vs. ULM football game on Saturday, Nov. 21
- Tailgate kit: One large Yeti Tundra cooler and two folding lawn chairs
- One spring 2027 semester surface lot parking pass (reimbursement for existing pass holder is an option)
- Two tickets to St. Paul and the Broken Bones on Thursday, April 8, 2027
- Multiple gift vouchers for Campus Dining (good for a dozen cookie sandwiches, mini-cupcakes or brownies)
- A new backpack, zip-up hoodie sweatshirt or quarter zip sweatshirt
Winners will be notified directly via email in early November.
Where to find us
Throughout the month of October, Information Technology Services will be around our campuses encouraging real-time engagement in the Cyber Bowl, handing out swag and answering your burning cyber questions.
Find us from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the following dates and locations:
- Thursday, Oct 1 in the Plemmons Student Union, Table 3
- Friday, Oct. 9 in Central Dining Hall
- Wednesday, Oct 14 in the Plemmons Student Union, Table 3
- Tuesday, Oct. 20 in Central Dining Hall
- Friday, Oct. 30 in the Plemmons Student Union, Table 3
Virtual meeting background
Download a virtual meeting background (App State users only) and use it in meetings during the month of October to promote the Cyber Bowl.
Special thanks to event partners
- ANM
- Zoom
- KnowBe4
- Dell Technologies
- Cisco
- Campus Dining
- University Parking
- The Campus Store
- App State Athletics
- University Communications
- Office of Arts Engagement & Cultural Resources
Cyber Bowl logo in App State black and gold including a football outlined in traces of a circuit board over a picture of white outlines on a football field.
App State joins the Cyber Bowl this October, a friendly cyber security awareness competition with ten other N.C. universities.