1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Cyber Hacking Competition for our Youth Act . 2. Establishment of competition (a) In general The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security shall coordinate a National Cyber Hacking Competition for students at secondary schools, which shall be held each year among students in each congressional district. The Secretary shall coordinate with Members of Congress to promote the Competition with appropriate outreach to local educational agencies. (b) Coordination The Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation with local educational agencies, shall establish rules and guidelines for the implementation of the competition described in subsection (a). The Secretary shall post such rules and guidelines on a publically-accessible webpage of the Department of Homeland Security. (c) Purposes The purposes of the Competition include the following: (1) Promoting and developing a 21st century cybersecurity workforce for high school students by increasing awareness of emerging technologies to combat cybersecurity risks. (2) Engaging students and State and local governments to collaborate with industries to strengthen and secure information systems and prevent vulnerabilities. (3) Advancing cybersecurity’s role in preventing large scale data theft, scams, and malicious information operations that affect millions of Americans. (4) Addressing best practices and privacy tools to combat cybersecurity risks for American households, State and local governments, and industries connected online. (5) Actively engaging students from communities that are traditionally under-represented or low performing in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. (6) Initiating innovative policymaking by connecting State and local governments to secondary school students on new and emerging cybersecurity risks and prevention. (d) Rule of construction Nothing in this Act may be construed as requiring secondary schools to participate in the Competition. (e) Definitions In this section: