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 (NYU-Poly) 建立了一个新的教师研究体验 (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迫切需要的主题。该项目将向一批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。教师和学生将参加全国高中法证挑战赛。纽约大学理工学院 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出色的成就。该团队计划为城市和内城区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市地区的课堂。因此，该项目将建立一个由对网络安全充满热情的教师和学生组成的社区。该项目拥有丰富的智力优势，其研究领域引人注目且与所有公民相关，并且拥有一支在研究和 K-12 推广方面展现专业知识的杰出教职团队。该网站提供教师可以访问且与当前研究和实践相关的项目。 RET 网站包括完善的评估和传播计划，可以为中等网络安全教育提供模型，填补重要的学科空白。该项目可以帮助为大量精通下一代网络安全概念和技术的美国计算机科学家建立一条可持续/可扩展的途径。该项目还具有许多更广泛的影响。该项目将为来自城市、内城区高中的教师提供专业发展，这些高中的社会多元化、经济弱势和学生群体代表性不足。教师将发展和磨练他们的研究、沟通和演示技能，所有这些对于他们的专业成长和成功至关重要。该项目将培养教师的技术能力，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成果，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.