ECHO Club
Ethical Cybersecurity Hackers Ops
Your membership email is the address on your membership form, and the only one this system recognizes. There is no password. Verification runs entirely through that one address.
- Enter your membership email — that one address, on its own. It is the only way a verification code reaches you. An S number or a Discord tag identifies you on the roster; only email signs you in.
- A six-digit code arrives if the address is on the roster. It expires in 10 minutes and works once. Check your junk or spam folder the first time. If you signed up with an FRCC address, also read Why FRCC email gets held below — the college's mail filter can hold the code before it ever reaches you, and only you can let it through.
- Type the code and the member links open. The session holds for 12 hours in this tab.
- If you are not on the roster, use the Membership form on the left. An officer reviews every signup.
Only if you used a college address. FRCC's filter can hold our sign-in code in quarantine. Check Junk Email first — it lands there more often.
Why it happens. Colleges have tightened email security over the last year — stricter external-sender rules, stronger anti-phishing filtering, and quarantine policies that hold anything the network has not seen before. A one-time code sent automatically from a new outside domain (echoclub.org) matches exactly the pattern those higher standards are built to catch, so FRCC's mail config holds it as a precaution. Nothing is wrong with the message or your account — the filter is doing its job, and once you release ECHO's address the next codes come straight through.
- Open the quarantine page below, sign in with your FRCC account.
- On the Email tab, find ECHO in the Sender or Subject column.
- Select it and choose Release. If your only option is Request release, that is normal — send the request and FRCC IT handles it.
- Come back and ask for a new code. Codes expire in 10 minutes, so the released one is already dead. The next one will come through.
Didn't get a code, or found something broken? Tell us — this does not require signing in, and an officer sees it.
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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.
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.
Motto
Digital caffeine before digital things
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
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), Unicorn Rack and Unicorn (hardware), Academic Time Line (tooling). Your project goes on this list.
Advisor
Sunny
Sunny — full-spectrum sunshine anywhere she goes. Sunny is also 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.
Contact Sunny with the digital button below.
Advisor
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. Contact Crystle with the digital button below. (Seriously though — thank you, Crystle!)
What ECHO does
Curiosity into capability
ECHO transforms curiosity into capability. We bring together live demos, virtual walkthroughs, and hands-on wargames so members learn the how and the why behind ethical hacking. From beginner-friendly labs — booting a toolkit from USB — to advanced CTFs and industry speaker nights, every activity is designed to build practical skill, ethical awareness, and leadership through collaborative projects and a growing archive of recorded sessions.
- Hands-on demos and step-by-step walkthroughs — software, hardware, electronics. Virtual and in-person meetings; session recordings available
- CTFs and wargames to practice offensive and defensive skills
- Privacy and ethics conversations that ground technical skills in responsibility
- Guest speakers from industry and community partners
- Member-led projects that build leadership, research, and club legacy
- Organizing and fundraising for the club's benefit — inspiring students to become ethical hackers
Milestones
What ECHO has done
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 now, and it funds ECHO itself rather than any one trip: getting members to conferences and CTFs, paying for training, and covering what it costs to run a hands-on 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 — Ethical Cybersecurity Hackers Ops — at Front Range Community College
Archived events
The record so far
ECHO competes on CTFTime as ECHOClub, and put itself on the map at its first officially recognised event.
- 138th — RIFFHACK: Black Market Break-In (1690 CTF points)
- 268th — boroCTF 2026 (5000 CTF points, 6.814 rating)
The full archive — writeups, standings, what each event taught — is being built into this site as the club's public record.
Connect
ECHO on LinkedIn
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.
Competition announcements
What's next on the board
Upcoming competitions, signup windows and team formation will be announced here and in the club Discord. This board is under active construction as the site develops — for now the Discord is the live channel for announcements.
Joining a competition needs no experience: entry-level events are chosen so a first-timer can contribute on day one.
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Contact Us:
SkillBit is the club’s training platform and a club sponsor. Getting into the ECHO group takes four steps. An officer adds you by hand.
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Find your username
It is the handle in your profile URL —
app.skillbit.com/u/yourname. That last part is what we need. -
Send it to ECHO
Submit the handle and an officer adds you to the group. No shared code, nothing to leak.
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You are in
The ECHO group appears on your SkillBit dashboard once an officer adds you. Competitions and training run from there.
ECHO group dashboard
Share your rank on the club leaderboard · optional
Your handle and rank appear on wargames.html. The rank is self-reported, not pulled from SkillBit automatically. It comes from your placement on the SkillBit ranked scoreboard.
Some ECHO projects live in the club's private GitHub org. Send your username and an officer invites you by hand.
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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 —
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Send it to ECHO
Submit the username and an officer sends the org invite by hand.
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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.
ECHO fields teams for several ranked CTFs this season — Black Hat MEA, H7CTF, UND CyberHawks Nationals and more. Seats are limited and every team is a selection, not a sign-up. Pick the competition, tell us your handle, make your case — an officer picks from who applies.
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Pick your competition
Choose the CTF you want a seat on. Each shows how many seats are left the moment you pick it.
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Your handle
The name teammates and officers will know you by — your HTB, SkillBit or CTFtime handle. It's the platform name, and it's allowed to differ from your club name.
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Make your case
More applicants than seats, most rounds — give the officer a reason.
Not "why I like CTFs." A category you own (pwn, web, crypto…), a box you're proud of, a bracket you'd avenge. Competitive teams pick competitive people.
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An officer picks
Applications go to the officer queue, not an auto-add — limited seats means a real decision, not a formality. You'll hear back either way.
Join the hack
No experience needed and no cybersecurity program enrollment to learn how to hack with ECHO Club. If you are curious and you are a student in the FRCC family or part of the local community, that is the only entry requirement. Community members are considered guest members and must be approved by Student Life.
Lands as pending until an officer reviews it. Only what you type here is collected.
You're on the list
You were already in the queue — we have your first application and this one did not add a second. Nothing is lost.
Your signup is in and marked pending. An officer will review it and you'll be able to sign in with your email once you're on the roster.
Nothing else to do. See you in the channel.
That did not send
Something dropped it on the way.
Your answers are still here — nothing was recorded, nothing was lost. Try again, or write to legacy@echoclub.org.