To coincide with the opening of the new cyber security exhibition at Bletchley Park, McAfee and Bletchley Park Trust invited schools to participate in a competition, asking children from aged 8–11 to create a superhero mascot to represent the Bletchley Park–McAfee partnership.
The competition received over 500 entries – here are the wonderfully imaginative creations of our top 15 finalists, including the winner ‘Super Safe Cyber Sally’ who was heralded the ultimate next-generation superhero who will protect the online world from cybercrime.
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McAfee and Bletchley Park Trust 'Design a Cyber Superhero' Competition
1. • July 2014
McAfee – Bletchley Park Trust ‘Design a Cyber
Superhero’ competition winners
2. The McAfee and Bletchley Park Trust partnership
In October 2013, McAfee announced a major five-year partnership with the Bletchley Park Trust, whose
mission is to preserve and develop the home of Britain's pioneering World War Two Codebreakers.
In June 2014, McAfee and Bletchley Park Trust unveiled the International Cyber Security Exhibition and
Computer Learning Zone, located within the new Bletchley Park Visitor Centre in Block C. This
collaboration brings together two organisations highly committed to keeping people of all ages safe
online.
At the new site, children and adults will be able to learn how the breathtaking achievements of the WW2
Codebreakers are relevant in today's war against cyber threats.
3. The ‘Design a Cyber Superhero’ competition
To coincide with the opening of the new site and cyber security exhibition at Bletchley Park, McAfee and
Bletchley Park Trust invited schools to participate by asking children from aged 8–11 to create a superhero
mascot to represent the Bletchley Park–McAfee partnership.
The competition received over 500 entries – here are the wonderfully imaginative creations of our top 15
finalists, including the winner ‘Super Safe Cyber Sally’ who was heralded the ultimate next-generation
superhero who will protect the online world from cybercrime.
4. Pope Paul Primary School
Entrant: Sophie
Super hero: Com-Kid
Super powers:
glasses that turn
all written
dangers into
anagrams so you
can’t read them;
buzzer that goes
off every time an
online danger is
senses
5. Pope Paul Primary School
Entrant: Shayan
Superhero: Cyber Man
Super powers:
blocks dangerous
websites; side
kick Super Pooch
bites viruses
6. Gayton Junior School
Entrant: Divjot
Superhero:
Cyber Lightning
Strike
Super powers:
can sense danger
on her radio;
flies quicker than
a swirling storm;
a whiz kid that
loves computers
7. Gayton Junior School
Entrant: Holly
Superhero: Cybershade
Super powers: a web protector
that is strict with cyberbullies; can
suck cyberbullying from
computers with scanner on her
hand
8. Gayton Junior School
Superhero: Justice
Super powers: zaps computers
that are being hacked; reverses
viruses; deletes rude videos
9. North Heath Primary School
Entrant: Francesca and Mark
Superhero: Roary
Super powers: a powerful
roar that scares away
viruses; McAfee badge
blocks trolls from getting
your personal
information
10. North Heath Primary School
Entrants: Beth and Tara
Superhero: Firewall Phill
Super powers: virus-
stopping bike helmet;
fast-typing fingers;
firewall-producing epic
shoes!
11. North Heath Primary School
Entrant: George
Superhero: The Hacker
Attacker
Super powers: electric
boots to run quickly
through the wires; a
shield to block hackers;
binary cape to decode
dodgy websites
Our second place winner!
12. St Gregory's Catholic Primary
Entrant: Sophia
Superhero: KYSO
(Keep You Safe
Online)
Super powers:
Red laser beam
to block
viruses; radar
to spot cyber
bullying;
invisibility to
secretly watch
children and
keep them safe
online
13. Little Paxton Primary
Entrant: Kirstyn
Superhero: Super Safe
Cyber Sally
Super powers: special
glasses to see every
computer in the world;
bow with bubble
machine to float mean
messages away; belt to
detect problems
Our first place winner!
14. Little Paxton Primary
Entrant: Hannah
Superhero:
Bletchy The
Brilliant
Super
powers: kills
viruses with
his magical
computer;
transforms
cyber bullies
into kind
people
15. Potters Gate C of E
Entrants: Kiran and Joe
Superhero: Cyber Sam
Super powers: super
sonic ears to hear
aggressive language;
USB to show the police
what’s happened
online; Sam’s pet Rex is
super suspicious on the
web and helps him
track down the bad
guys
16. St Mary’s C of E School
Entrant: Cameron
Superhero: Captain Enigma Cybersafe
Super powers: Superhero suit; gives children the
power to stay safe online
Our third place winner!
17. Online blog submission
Could that hero be McCyber!?
Madam’s masterpiece meets E’s theories to
form their character who I’m told started on the
wrong side of the battle. Having been a caught
hacking he knows how to think like the bad
guys. He doesn’t need any weapons as he has
spent so much time online he now has a smart
chip embedded in his brain. His huge hands are
due to all the muscles he’s built up in his fingers
spending so much time speed typing. We think
he’s the bad turned good guy for McAfee’s
mission.
Entrants: Madam and E (children of blogger who writes for Family Four Fun)
Superhero: McCyber
Super powers: micro chip embedded in brain to make him smart; huge hands
from speed typing and tracking down bad guys
18. Roberts Primary School
Entrants: Ben Williams and Pharrell Edwards
Superhero: Cyber Man
Super powers: if you press the button on
his back, it locks up all of the hackers’ bad
stuff; super strength; super flight; speed