RET in Engineering and Computer Science Site: Research Experience and Training in Cyber Security for Pre-College Teachers

这笔资金在纽约理工大学建立了一个新的教师研究经验（RET）网站。该RET网站的主要目标是让高中教师参与网络安全相关活动，并让他们向学生介绍国家关键需求的主题。该项目将向骨干教师介绍网络安全的基本概念，并让他们参与纽约大学-理工学院正在进行的研究项目。老师和他们的学生将参加一场全国性的高中法医挑战赛。纽约理工大学RET团队在网络安全研究、教育、推广、能力建设和K-12教育计划方面取得了杰出的成就。该团队计划为来自城市和内城学校的教师提供研究和专业发展机会，并广泛传播教师设计的课程材料，将网络安全主题及其研究带入大纽约地区的课堂。因此，该项目将建立一个由热衷于网络安全的教师和学生组成的社区。该项目拥有丰富的智力优势，由一个研究领域锚定，这是引人注目的，与所有公民相关，并由一个卓越的教师团队，在研究和K-12外展方面都表现出专业知识。该网站的特色项目是教师可以访问的，并且与当前的研究和实践相关联。RET网站包括健全的评估和传播计划，可能为中等网络安全教育提供模型，填补重要的学科空白。该项目可以帮助建立一个可持续的/可扩展的途径，培养一批精通下一代网络安全概念和技术的美国计算机科学家。该项目还有许多更广泛的影响。该项目将为来自城市和内城高中的教师提供专业发展，这些高中的学生群体具有社会多样性、经济劣势和代表性不足。教师将发展和磨练他们的研究、沟通和演讲技巧，所有这些对他们的专业成长和成功都是必不可少的。该项目将建立教师的技术能力，使他们能够在学校开发和部署网络安全主题。项目团队将通过TeachEngineering数字图书馆、教程和课程材料传播项目结果，以供其他人采用。

This funding establishes a new Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Site at Polytechnic University of New York (NYU-Poly). The primary objective of this RET site is to engage high school teachers in cyber security related activities and involve them in introducing a topic of critical national need to students. The project will introduce a cadre of teachers to the basic concepts of cyber security and engage them in ongoing research projects at NYU-Poly. The teachers and their students will participate in a nationwide high school forensics challenge. The NYU-Poly RET team has an outstanding track record of achievements in cyber security research, education, outreach, capacity building, and K-12 educational initiatives. The team plans to provide research and professional development opportunities to teachers from urban, inner city schools and broadly disseminate the curricular materials the teachers design to bring the cyber-security topics and their research into classrooms in the greater New York City area. Thus the project will develop a community of teachers and students who are passionate about cyber security.The project is abundant in intellectual strengths anchored by a research area this is compelling and relevant to all citizens and by an exceptional faculty team that has demonstrated expertise in both research and K-12 outreach. The site features projects that are teacher accessible as well as connected to current research and practice. The RET site includes sound evaluation and dissemination plans that may provide models for secondary cyber security education, filling an important disciplinary gap. The project could help establish a sustainable/scalable pathway to an abundant group of US computer scientists proficient in the next generation of cyber security concepts and techniques.The project also has many broader impacts. The project will provide professional development to teachers from urban, inner-city high schools with socially diverse, economically disadvantaged, and underrepresented student populations. Teachers will develop and hone their research, communication, and presentation skills, all of which are essential to their professional growth and success. The project will build the technical capacity of teachers so they are capable of developing and deploying cyber security topics at their schools. The project team will disseminate the results of the project through the TeachEngineering digital library, tutorials, and course materials for adoption by others.