Cyber Discovery Camp returns this summer to UB!

 

 

This June, teams from 8 local High Schools will compete to become the 2014 UB Cyber Discovery Champions. A team of 6 students and 2 teachers from each school will  spend a week-long immersion at the University of Baltimore into all issues cyber.

 

So what will students do all week? The camp experience includes movies, discussion sessions, hands-on IT labs (robot soccer!)  a cryptographic treasure hunt, creative story-telling, and a final cyber challenge.  Remember when we said this wasn’t just about science and technology? Faculty from UB will be leading the sessions, and they have backgrounds as diverse as philosophy, law, business, gaming, information technology and math (and yes, information security).

 

Created initially at Lousiana Tech, Cyber Discovery Camp is funded by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and is part of a national camp program  run by the National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC). The University of Baltimore is excited to be involved for a third year, and the first university outside Lousiana to be partners in the Cyber Discovery Camp project.