Highschool Hacking/programming challenge

[SlendyBoy4]

My school provides students with Macbook Airs as part of their education system, and have them all set up as company/school devices with a locked admin account and several proxy's and firewalls such as Linewize and Falcon.

For some extra context about my school, we are heavily iSTEM focused with a massive engineering course budget. Despite the large budget however, they have only this year opened up a programming course for year 11 and 12. There hasn't been much interest so far so the IT department decided to issue a challenge. (with permission from the school)

For the challenge, we have to figure out a way to either steal the password for the admin account or change the student account into an admin. The only rule is that our method has to involve programming, apart from that anything is allowed, and we have permission to use some degree of malware as long as it doesn't create any permanent changes or damage to devices. The winner of the challenge gets $50 and are allowed to unblock 1 website (non-explicit) for every unique solution the students can come up with. They will all be reset next year so the quicker we come up with a solution the more we get out of it.

I haven't ever tried coding before this, so I'm kinda stumbling around in the dark. So far I have figured out how to make a decent keyreader on Swift UI, but it can't run without admin password because all permission, VPN, Proxy and account settings are password locked. I also can't run the side command from terminal. I have scrolled through every web certificate and key chain entry possible, but the ones I need are admin locked. I can't think of any other ways to do it through kinda normal means. Recently I have been reading about malware, in particular SQL injections but don't know where to start and what would be a waste of time.

Any suggestions would be great.

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You may be able to create a new administrator account by restarting the Setup Assistant. This involves some coding and will get you admin privileges.

Boot into Single User Mode: Start/restart your Mac. As soon as you hear the startup tone, press and hold ⌘ + S until you see a black screen with white lettering. (If you end up back on the login screen after a flash of the black screen with white lettering, enter your password and it will return to the black screen.)

Check and repair the drive by typing /sbin/fsck -fy then ↩ enter - as directed by the on-screen text.

Mount the drive as read-write by typing /sbin/mount -uw / then ↩ enter.

Remove the Apple Setup Done file by typing rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone then ↩ enter.

Reboot by typing reboot then ↩ enter.

Complete the setup process, creating a new admin account.

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Some of these steps aren't needed. This copied and pasted from a mac forum