Raising Funds For Education Through Academic Bootcamps
Raising Funds For Education Through Academic Bootcamps
Help introduce high school students to cybersecurity
20 underserved participants from community schools in North Carolina
Introductions, ice breakers, and intro to cybersecurity
Introduction to Anticheat
Social Engineering Attacks
Cyber Threats
Cyber Ethics
Application and Network Security
Project day
Project day
Showcase day!
Maniam and Deepesh served as judges for our final competition as well as Alan Saqui, Research Technology Integration Engineer at Netscout, who served as a guest judge.
Our first place team consisting of Michael, Byron, and Ascher made a cipher titled IEM or irrational encryption method. They came up with an encryption method that involved using a different cipher each day which was based on the date of that day.
They took the square root of the day in order to get an irrational number. Each digit in the irrational number was then used as the number to shift the letter in that position.
Our second-place team consisting of Antonio, Marissa, and Connor made a cipher titled the CAM cipher. Their encryption method was coded in python and involved the usage of random integers. In doing this, they made it so that each time the cipher was used, it would encrypt differently based on the random number selected. Knowing these random numbers would be the only way to then later decrypt the message!
We also had a prize for the cyber breach category and this one went to Daniela and Lindsay! The cyber breach they decided to cover was the 2013 Target Data Breach. They were well articulated and covered all aspects of the breach, going into detail about how it happened and how it could have been prevented. Additionally, during their presentation, they showed a great understanding of the concepts and fundamentals that we covered during the camp.
Students worked together to create a cyberdefense from start to finish
Students pitched their projects to professional mentors and competed for first and second place
More than $600 distributed to participants in rewards and incentives
Students leave camp with a finished product, ready to be showcased in a college application or job interview
Certificates and winners announced and received certificates and prizes
All students reported a dramatic increase in their understanding of and their comfort with cybersecurity ideas and processes after the camp
Renee Leak & Stacey Weinstein
Ansh, Adwit, Latha, & Mariel
Maniam Palanivelu, Mike Schiller, Brian Bonner, Deepesh Nair, & Alan Saqui