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NSA-funded academies grow cyber skills

This summer the NSA GenCyber grant is allowing us to educate high school students and teachers about cybersecurity, ethical hacking, forensics and reverse engineering.

This academy really expanded my concept of what cybersecurity entails. From forensics to reverse engineering to even phishing emails, I have learned the tools I need to be successful in my cybersecurity career.

These teachers realize the urgency of cybersecurity, and they want to help their students to learn this field so that we can help reverse the cyber workforce shortage.

Teachers, we call it our teacher toolbox, and this camp has given me so many tips and tricks and resources that I'm going to be able to use in my classroom not only to teach cybersecurity, but just to be a better computer science teacher overall.

Thanks to our amazing faculty and staff, over these past two weeks we've exposed 35 high school students to careers in cybersecurity. And we've done the same with 22 middle and high school teachers so that they can take that information to thousands of students in their schools all across the state.