Begin where you are
You do not need to arrive as an expert. Your experience helps us choose the right support.
Real projects. Real human mentors.
Curiosity is
your starting
point.
Learn through projects, with a real person in your corner. Operation Mentor brings free courses, practical work and human mentoring together across subjects.
Free participation. Beginners welcome. For young people and adults.
YOUR FIRST OPERATION
PROJECT FILE
Operation 001
Discovery
One application.
A world of questions.
Follow the evidence
Human guidance
UNDERSTAND → INVESTIGATE → IMPROVE
100% free participationMultiple courses & subjectsProjects you ownSupport at your pace
Meet your first course
Operation Discovery.
Learn by doing the work.
Our first course explores cybersecurity through a fictional application. Investigate its weaknesses and make it safer, from your first question to your final demonstration.
01Small steps.
Small steps.
Real understanding.
Five connected missions take you from “how does this work?” to explaining what you changed and why it matters. The Python lab runs on your own PC with VS Code and Python.
Choose supported, core or stretch work with your mentor. A sample Python course shows how the same approach can support other subjects, with room to find your rhythm.
Applications are currently closed.
- 01
Understand the system
Map the application, valuable information and intended permissions.
- 02
Follow the evidence
Investigate and demonstrate the supplied weaknesses.
- 03
Make it safer
Improve focused Python authorization and logging functions.
- 04
Investigate an incident
Work with synthetic evidence and implement a detector.
- 05
Show your thinking
Demonstrate your work, explain the evidence and reflect with your mentor.
A person, not an answer button
You bring the questions.
We work through them
together.
Learners own the investigating and building. Mentors help them choose a next step, understand what they find and keep going when things get difficult. Each course has its own project, milestones and feedback.
Christoffer SilversparreProject owner & initial primary mentor
Learn with a small support team
Each active course enrollment has a named primary mentor and a backup mentor, with shared feedback to keep support connected.
People make the decisions
Coordinators agree course places and mentor assignments. Human mentors review the work and approve milestones, with support matched to the learner.
How Operation Mentor works
Your project.
A shared next step.
Explore courses across fields, subjects and subtopics. Keep several courses moving at your own pace, with separate work and progress for each.
Find your direction
A coordinator agrees your course and mentor team. Begin with a practical project and a level of support that suits you.
Build & share your work
Bring evidence, questions and reflections to each mission. Your mentor gives shared feedback and reviews your milestones.
Talk it through
Meet one to one through a private external Google Meet link. Present your project and share your screen to work through questions together.
For learners and mentors
Learning grows
with people.
Explore what learners and mentors can do together. This proof of concept is open to browse; participant spaces use synthetic test accounts, and applications are closed.
Applications are currently closed.
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