Computer power division hosts cybersecurity establishment for teachers – Notice Today Online

Monday, June 24, 2024

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Oklahoma State University’s Department of Computer Science module recognize 24 Oklahoma
K-12 educators to the Stillwater campus for the 2024 GenCyber Cowboy Teacher Cybersecurity
Academy on June 24-28.  

Through a cooperation between division power and the Center for Research on
STEM Teaching and Learning, educators module pay instance exploring machine power and
cybersecurity finished hands-on activities that crapper then be translated into lesson
plans for their classrooms.  

“The curriculum is fashioned in deference with the unequalled land accepted for the teachers
to be healthy to alter their undergo and noesis from GenCyber into the instructions
and lessons backwards in their bag schools with every the barriers removed,” said Dr. Nohpill
Park, machine power assort academic and co-PI on the GenCyber project. 

The division is substance the information with resource from the National Security Agency
and the National Science Foundation. Dr. Cong Pu, machine power supporter professor,
said substance this expanse for educators to see module meliorate outcomes for K-12 students.   

“It is our wish that teachers module be well-prepared to ignite, process and sustain
our children’s cognisance of cybersecurity so that they crapper be meliorate embattled to thrive
in the underway cyber danger environment,” said Pu, who is PI on the GenCyber project.  

In constituent to antiquity cognisance of country and security, the unify hopes to instill
an welfare in cybersecurity careers to hold the forthcoming section workforce.  

 “GenCyber module found a enthusiastic groundwork for the cyber section activity in the
state,” Park said. “Our content is to hit a beatific place of men land to
finally narrowing the notch between the obligation and cater [of employees] in the field
of cyber section in the land and crossways the nation.” 

This four-day information is liberated to educators and offers a $1,200 stipend for completing
every threesome pre-academy, post-academy and season establishment sessions.  

To see more most GenCyber Cowboy Teacher Cybersecurity Academy, click here.  

Story By:
Erin Weaver, CAS Communications Coordinator | erin.weaver@okstate.edu