June 29, 2017

High school teachers will use the @vacyberrange to participate in lab exercises

For the second year, the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech will host two GenCyber teacher’s camps for 50 high school teachers from across the country.

The cybersecurity educational camps will take place on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus June 25-29 and July 9-13.

“Educating secondary school teachers enables them to better train their pupils on both the nature of the technology and safe practices in the use of this computing and communication capability,” said Joseph Tront, professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the project’s principal investigator. “We view the camps as a recruiting opportunity in that the teachers who participate will be able to refer their technically minded students to apply to Virginia Tech to study engineering and computer science.”

The multipurpose goals of the cybersecurity event are to:

• improve cybersecurity awareness among high school teachers;
• motivate high school teachers to integrate cybersecurity lessons into their curriculum;
• raise awareness of Virginia Tech’s role in cybersecurity education; and
• increase recruitment of high school students into Virginia Tech’s cybersecurity curriculum.

During the camp, high school teachers will use the Virginia Cyber Range to participate in lab exercises by using the courseware and a cloud-hosted, virtual environment. Proposed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe in spring 2016, the Cyber Range’s mission is to enhance cybersecurity education in Virginia high schools, colleges, and universities. Read more

Virginia Cyber Range
www.virginiacyberrange.org
1880 Pratt Drive, Suite 2000 @ the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center