Ivy Tech’s Cyber Patriot Camp Competition for Middle School Students
When: 9 a.m.-Noon, Friday, June 21
Where: Ivy Tech Community College Evansville Campus located on 3501 N. First Avenue in Room 340.
Background:Â Selected middle school students attending the YMCA Summer Program have been participating in the Cyber Patriot Camp this week at Ivy Tech. The culminating activity is a competition in the Cyber Patriot Game, which are challenges and simulations of issues they learned about this week.
The purpose of the camp was to introduce good cyber security principles and online hygiene to middle school students. They have gone through four modules about general cybersecurity and how to make Windows/Linux machines more secure. Privacy, ethics, and good online behavior, was also a hallmark of the discussion.
The overarching goal has been to create excitement and explain the importance of cybersecurity, job security as a career, and demand for STEM field related jobs and cybersecurity in particular.
