Pace University Hosts GenCyber Cybersecurity Programs for Teachers

Last week, Pace University in Pleasantville, New York, kicked off a new and exciting learning opportunity for high school teachers. The program, known as GenCyber, allows teachers to learn about cybersecurity technology, design curricula, and gain expertise needed to train future generations of cybersecurity experts. There are 25 high school teachers at Pace through July 17 from New York and other states.

GenCyber is free of cost to all participants, and is taught by faculty from Pace University’s Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems. The program is funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF.)

The 2015 GenCyber summer camps will be on 29 university and college campuses in 18 states. Collectively they will expose middle and high school students, as well as teachers, to cyber security and cyber problem solving.

This is the second year of the program. It is planned to expand from the current 43 camps to 200 camps by 2020.

The program at Pace has several participants from Westchester, one from the East Ramapo School District, and some from Florida, Colorado, Washington and other areas.

For more information visit the Pace website at http://www.pace.edu/seidenberg/gencyber.