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Challenges

Every emergency is different, but the first ten minutes matter more than any amount of gear. Pick a challenge below for what matters most in the first ten minutes.

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#Nature ☀️ Summer Wildfire smoke over a forest

Wildfire

What matters most when a vegetation fire threatens your area.

 #Nature 🌱 Spring Flooding engulfing homes

Flood

What matters most when water is rising near you.

 #Nature 📅 Year-round Earthquake damage to buildings

Earthquake

What matters most in the seconds right after the ground starts shaking.

 #Nature ❄️ Winter Snow-covered road with power lines

Winter storm / power outage

What matters most when the power's out and it's not coming back soon.

 #Nature ☀️ Summer Cracked, dry earth with a small plant growing through it

Global Warming

What matters most as it reshapes how often — and how badly — everything else on this list happens.

 #Nature 🍃 Fall Cracked, dry farmland with withered crop stubble

Crop Failure

What matters most when the harvest fails, or the weather won't let you plant for next year.

 #Nature 🍃 Fall A field of tall grass covered in early morning frost

Early Frost

What matters most when the cold arrives before you're ready for it.

 #Nature 🍃 Fall A tissue box and nasal spray bottle

Flu Season

What matters most when illness season hits everyone at once.

 #Social 📅 Year-round Hand holding a phone with AI app icons

AI, scams, hacking, deep fakes, deep web

What matters most when you can't be sure who — or what — you're actually talking to.

 #Technology 📅 Year-round A red padlock resting on a laptop keyboard

Cybersecurity

What matters most when someone's trying to get into your accounts.

 #Technology 📅 Year-round The European Union flag waving against a cloudy sky

NIS2

What matters most if EU cybersecurity regulation applies to your business.

 #Digital 📅 Year-round Hands typing on a laptop keyboard

Cyber Hygiene

What matters most for the boring, unglamorous habits that block most real attacks.

 #Social 📅 Year-round A hand holding a smartphone with a blank screen

Digital Scams

What matters most when a message is designed to make you act before you think.

 #Social 📅 Year-round A magnifying glass held over a laptop keyboard

Doxing

What matters most before someone pieces together what's publicly findable about you.

 #Technology 📅 Year-round A stylized illustration of a blue error screen

Blue Screen of Death

What matters most when a crash means you can't get your data back.

 #Digital 📅 Year-round A padlock and a credit card resting on a keyboard

Data Protection

What matters most about the data you hand over before it's already been breached.

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These challenges are contributed by our club members and by community members who've taken part in our events — not written top-down by staff.

These challenges get worked hands-on at our events — the hackathon especially, where participants get deeper resources and data to actually build solutions. See the next hackathon.

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