HackWednesday / Owl Academy
Little explorers.
Safer digital adventures.
Meet four forest friends. Learn to protect your secrets, spot tricky messages, and question what AI tells you.
Designed for ages 8-12 to explore with a trusted grown-up. Four short stops, at your own pace.
Explore the forestA small adventure in safer choices
Pick a place in the forest.
Stop 1 / Bea's account lodge
Protect your account
Bea builds a different lock for every lodge. A password should be long, unique, and kept private. Ask a trusted grown-up to help set up a password manager or a passkey where available.
- Unique password
- Extra sign-in protection
- Keep codes private
Try it together
With a grown-up, find where an app offers extra sign-in protection. Do not type a real password here.
Your turn
A player asks for your login code to give you a prize. What should you do?
0 of 4 stops explored. No timer. Take your time and try again whenever you like.
New / Howdy's evidence adventure
AI Fact Detective
Compare pretend AI answers with story reference cards. Highlight a clue, then decide: supported, wrong, or not enough information.
Play AI Fact DetectiveNew / Finn's five-message adventure
Can you spot the trick?
Explore pretend prizes, hurry-up warnings, familiar voices, and a robot that asks too much.
Play Spot the TrickFor families and educators
These fictional stories are conversation starters, not a test of whether a child is safe online. Encourage asking for help, not secrecy or blame. No AI chat, account, upload, or real password is needed for these activities.
Answers and progress stay in this page's memory and reset on reload. This activity does not send answers to a server. Google Analytics is disabled in Owl Academy. Follow the age rules of any service you use together.
On devices that request reduced motion, the animal animations are disabled automatically. You can also pause them above the map.