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Air Force CyberCamp offered in Sandpoint |
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May 10, 2017 |
Young adults who want to learn about
cybersecurity and technology career options will
have the opportunity during one of two Air Force
Association’s (AFA) CyberCamp summer camp
programs hosted by University of Idaho Coeur
d’Alene.
The hands-on programs, slated for June 19-23,
are designed for students in seventh through
12th grades who have an interest in computer
science or science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) career fields.
Participants in the camps will receive software
and a kit designed to teach them cyber safety,
cyber ethics, and critical network security
skills and tools. The day camps will run from
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. during the week at the
UI Post Falls Research Park on Lochsa Way in
Post Falls and at Sandpoint High School on
Division Street in Sandpoint.
Through the camps, students will learn how to
protect their personal devices and information
from outside threats, as well as how to secure
entire computer networks. Each AFA CyberCamp
will culminate in a team-based competition that
puts the campers in the role of IT
administrators tasked with finding and
addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in
simulated network environments.
“The AFA CyberCamp is one component of the
university’s Dig’n IT program, which encourages
interest in computer science and
technology-related careers,” said Charles Buck,
associate vice president at UI Coeur d’Alene. “Dig’n
IT also consists of a summer coding camp for
middle school girls, JAVA coding camps,
internships for high school students at local
tech companies, and teacher trainings on
integrating computer programming into the
classroom.”
Those interested in taking part in the camps can
register at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afa-cybercamp-tickets-32872224709?aff=es2.
Camp registration is available for flexible
pricing. The suggested cost is $50 per student,
though no student will be turned away for an
inability to pay. June 2 is the deadline to
register for AFA’s CyberCamp.
Cybersecurity experts Alex Stanton, CEO of
Exbabylon IT Services in Hayden, Idaho, and
Karen Thurston, director of the Cybersecurity
Training and Operations Center at UI Coeur
d’Alene, will teach the camps.
The camps are part of the CyberPatriot National
Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air
Force Association in 2009 to attract students to
cybersecurity and other STEM disciplines.
In addition to the annual National Youth Cyber
Defense Competition and the new AFA CyberCamp
program, CyberPatriot has launched an elementary
school cyber education Initiative designed to
introduce young students to online safety. To
learn more about CyberPatriot programs, visit
uscyberpatriot.org. |
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