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Ethical Cybersecurity Hackers Ops
ECHO Club Brief
ECHO stands for Ethical Cybersecurity Hackers Ops — ECHO Club. A student-led cybersecurity club founded by Digital Orukami, a cybersecurity student attending Front Range Community College, Larimer. The club is solely for students and the community, and will always remain a separate organization from the academic agenda of FRCC — led by students.
Mission
ECHO CLUB aims to provide students at the Front Range Community College Larimer campus with a safe, inclusive, and engaging platform to explore ethical hacking practices, foster meaningful discussions, and spark curiosity about the ever-evolving digital space.
Vision
Help students and the community learn to practice ethical hacking and build awareness of the cybersecurity of software, hardware, and electronics — a culture of integrity and informed decision-making that empowers students to choose the ethical path in their cyber and technological pursuits.
Motto
“Digital caffeine before digital things.” Inspiration lives in the small things — the little projects and quick experiments that keep us curious. Joy fuels mastery, and every great echo starts with a step toward curiosity.
About
Turn curiosity into hands-on skill
You'll hack — and discuss how to defend against hacks — in real lab environments, connecting theoretical course material to real-world technique. Open to any FRCC student: no experience required.
You'll hack — and discuss how to defend against hacks — in real lab environments, connecting theoretical course material to real-world technique. Build portfolio-worthy projects, level up through challenges, workshops, and show-and-tell demos, and learn entry-level Capture the Flag war games.
Open to any FRCC student: no cybersecurity program enrollment, no experience required.
New SGA collaboration
We built SGA’s campus survey
ECHO built the Campus Food Access Survey for Student Government as a student body initiative — the questions are SGA’s, the instrument, the page and the public results board are ours. ECHO now offers HTML design kits to other groups on the same terms.
ECHO built the Campus Food Access Survey for Student Government, as a student body initiative. SGA is making the case for keeping the Peak Cafe open through the summer semester and needed evidence rather than a petition. The initiative and the questions are SGA’s; ECHO built the instrument, the page, the anonymous intake and the public results board.
Off the back of it ECHO now offers HTML design kits to other clubs, campus offices and student initiatives — custom surveys, landing pages and forms, built to your vision and handed over working. Requests go to legacy@echoclub.org — the button below opens it with the subject line already filled in.
Question wording and content stay the responsibility of the requesting party. ECHO builds the thing; it does not put its name behind what you choose to ask.
Mission
Practice, defend, demystify
ECHO CLUB aims to provide students at the Front Range Community College Larimer campus with a safe, inclusive, and engaging platform to explore ethical hacking practices, foster meaningful discussions, and spark curiosity about the ever-evolving digital space.
ECHO CLUB aims to provide students at the Front Range Community College Larimer campus with a safe, inclusive, and engaging platform to explore ethical hacking practices, foster meaningful discussions, and spark curiosity about the ever-evolving digital space.
Vision
Security literacy for everyone
ECHO CLUB is here to provide a safe environment for students to become responsible ethical hackers equipped to confront the future of digital threats. Our ultimate vision is to cultivate a culture of integrity and informed decision-making, empowering students to choose the ethical path in their cyber and technological pursuits.
ECHO CLUB is here to provide a safe environment for students to become responsible ethical hackers equipped to confront the future of digital threats. Our ultimate vision is to cultivate a culture of integrity and informed decision-making, empowering students to choose the ethical path in their cyber and technological pursuits.
Motto
Digital caffeine before digital things
Inspiration lives in the small things — little projects, quick experiments, the sparks that keep us curious. Joy fuels mastery, and every great echo starts with a step toward curiosity.
The club motto’s philosophy means finding inspiration in the small things — the little projects, the quick experiments, the sparks that keep us entertained and curious. Without those joyful, bite-sized builds, we lose the energy and momentum to chase the bigger passions.
ECHO celebrates the idea that joy fuels mastery, and every great echo starts with a step forward toward curiosity.
Why join
Curiosity into skill
Real labs, portfolio-worthy projects, workshops, and entry-level Capture the Flag war games that connect coursework to real technique.
Hack, and learn to defend against hacks, in real lab environments. Build portfolio-worthy projects, level up through challenges, workshops and show-and-tell demos, and learn entry-level Capture the Flag war games that connect coursework to real technique.
What members build already: AEGIS (security platform), AUSPEX (wireless survey display), OC Agent Development (multi-agent tooling), Unicorn Rack and Unicorn (hardware), Academic Time Line (tooling). Open-source builds are open for any member to request to contribute. Your project goes on this list.
What ECHO does
Curiosity into capability
Live demos, virtual walkthroughs and hands-on wargames — from beginner labs (booting a toolkit from USB) to advanced CTFs, ethics conversations, speaker nights and member-led projects.
ECHO transforms curiosity into capability. Live demos, virtual walkthroughs and hands-on wargames teach the how and the why behind ethical hacking — from beginner labs (booting a toolkit from USB) to advanced CTFs and industry speaker nights.
- Hands-on demos and step-by-step walkthroughs — software, hardware, electronics; virtual and in person, with recordings
- CTFs and wargames for offensive and defensive practice
- Privacy and ethics conversations that ground technique in responsibility
- Guest speakers from industry and community partners
- Member-led projects building leadership, research and club legacy
Advisor
Sunny
Full-spectrum sunshine anywhere she goes. Keeper of the Peak Cafe, dog lover — and it's debated she has met more students than anyone on campus in 20+ years of FRCC loyalty.
Sunny — full-spectrum sunshine anywhere she goes. Sunny is in charge of feeding all the geniuses and intellects on campus at the Peak Cafe. She loves dogs, and it’s debated that she has seen and interacted with more students than anyone on campus across her 20+ years of FRCC loyalty.
Advisor
Crystle
Always living it large — mother of thousands, said to have raised more adults than the military. Army veteran so humble she thanks others for the chance to have served. (Thank you, Crystle!)
Crystle — always living it large. Mother of thousands: said to have raised more adults than the military. She loves to vacation and have fun with her family, and once grew an entire garden center without ever planting a single seed. She is also in charge of feeding all the geniuses and intellects on campus at the Peak Cafe.
She’s so humble she thanks others for the opportunity to have served in the US Army. (Seriously though — thank you, Crystle!)
Milestones
What ECHO has done
First cybersecurity club at FRCC. Organizing with The Foundation at FRCC — giving to the club is open, and it pays for conferences, CTFs and training.
ECHO has launched with great things already in practice, and is currently organizing with The Foundation at FRCC — opening fundraising and donation opportunities for the club.
- Giving is open through The Foundation at FRCC — donations are tax-deductible, and receipts are issued on request
- Money reaches members — conference and CTF travel, training, and the running costs of a hands-on club
- Established the first cybersecurity club at Front Range Community College
Archived events
The record so far
ECHO competes on CTFtime as ECHOClub — 138th at RIFFHACK and 268th at boroCTF 2026, its first ranked finishes.
ECHO competes on CTFtime as ECHOClub, and on Hack The Box as Team ECHO Club — 74 flags and counting.
- 138th — RIFFHACK: Black Market Break-In (1690 CTF points)
- 268th — boroCTF 2026 (5000 CTF points, 6.814 rating)
- 506th — Cyber Apocalypse CTF 2026: The Salt Crown (HTB)
Top categories so far: Forensics 27 · Cloud 21 · Coding 6.
Competition announcements
What's next on the board
Upcoming competitions, signup windows and team formation land here and in the Discord. No experience needed — entry-level events are chosen so a first-timer contributes on day one.
Upcoming competitions, signup windows and team formation are announced here and in the club Discord. This board is under active construction as the site develops.
Joining a competition needs no experience: entry-level events are chosen so a first-timer can contribute on day one.
Connect
ECHO on LinkedIn
The club's professional face — milestones, results and member work on the record, where an employer can find them.
ECHO CLUB keeps a LinkedIn page — the club’s professional face. Milestones, competition results, event recaps and member work land there, where a future employer or collaborator can find them.
Follow the page to put the club in your feed — and members: tag it on your own posts so the work echoes.
Calendar
What’s on
Pick a marked day for what is on it
· BrunnerCTF 2026 (Global)
Next up
Next Live CTF
Next live event is a flash CTF — quick fire, two hours to solve as many challenges as you can. A monthly competition with SkillBit.
Events
ECHO events — upcoming and archived
ECHO’s events live on the two wheels of the events page. The master wheel carries everything on the club’s board — what it is signed up for next, with the record beside it — and the archive wheel is the run history: competitions, workshops, guest sessions, summits and club builds. The ECHO calendars carry the whole academic year with a Google Calendar or .ics export.
Competition standing
Where the team sits on the board
The club’s standing in BrunnerCTF 2026, Global division — the 48-hour jeopardy CTF run by SDU, open worldwide, and one that counts toward ECHO’s CTFtime rating. The panel carries the team’s place, the share of the field it is ahead of, the score and the most recent challenge solved. It says which reading it is showing: live from the event’s own scoreboard, the last recorded capture with the time it was taken, or final once the event has closed. Every solve, the category breakdown and who scored what are on the club’s competition record.
Competition record Schedule and links Organisers’ certificate
GitHub
Where the code lives
ECHO keeps its work in the club's private GitHub org — one repository per project rather than one big pile, so a build can open on its own schedule. Repos stay private while they are being built and open one at a time as they stabilise. Members get invited to the org by hand.
GitHub access · project participation
One form for both: it gets you into the club's GitHub org, and it is how you say you want to work on a project. Send your username and an officer invites you by hand — same deliberate-roster idea as SkillBit.
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Have a GitHub account
Free, and yours to keep — the account is not club-owned.
Create a GitHub account -
Find your username
It is the handle in your profile URL —
github.com/yourname. That is what we need. -
You are in
Accept the org invite email from GitHub once an officer sends it, and the club's private repos appear on your account.
Projects
Things members are building
Every project the club can share is in the column below. Some are running today; the rest are names members have reserved. Open any card for the detail; write-ups land as each build reaches a state worth reading.
Grab and drag the column, scroll it, or tab through it — every card opens. Repositories open one at a time as they stabilise; each card carries the access form.
Support
Where the money goes
Giving runs through The Foundation at FRCC on ColoradoGives and funds the club itself: conference and CTF travel, training, and running costs. Companies sponsor rather than donate, and an officer sets that up. Receipts are tax-deductible but are not issued automatically — ask for one when you give.
Donate on ColoradoGives Sponsors and support
Sponsors and support is members-only — Tax-deductible giving opens here either wayMembership
Join the hack
Open to any student in the FRCC community college family. You do not need to be enrolled in the Cybersecurity Program, and no experience is required. The club is for students and the community, and stays a separate organisation from FRCC’s academic agenda — led by students.