{"id":2158,"date":"2025-01-17T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/?page_id=2158"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:27:15","slug":"prizes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to bring back our UNIQUE prize again this year for the FIRST-place team (either of the first place teams in high school, undergraduate, OR graduate track will be considered for the same\/one prize)! Our friends at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.se.community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DEFCON Social Engineering Community (SEC)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0are\u00a0<strong>GENEROUSLY<\/strong>\u00a0offering <strong>ONE<\/strong> <strong>GUARANTEED spot for their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.se.community\/vishing-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Engineering Community Vishing Competition (SECVC)<\/a> at DEFCON 34 (team must still complete the pre-contest requirements as listed on <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.se.community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEC website<\/a><\/strong><strong>).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: If the winning team&#8217;s members are minors, they must have an accompanying adult at the DEFCON SEC event.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prizes (for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">each<\/span> track: high school, undergraduate, and graduate)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1st place: USD 1,000<br \/>\n2nd place: USD 500<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The overall first-place team (ranked by the competition organizers) gets <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">BOTH<\/span> the guaranteed spot for the DEFCON SECVC <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">AND<\/span> the prize money.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2629\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/files\/2026\/02\/2026_SECTF_Banner_Logos.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"4278\" height=\"553\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to bring back our UNIQUE prize again this year for the FIRST-place team (either of the first place teams in high school,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/prizes\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2026 Prizes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2224,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2158","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2158\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/socialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}