EDU: Collaborative: Re-energizing K-12 Extramural Programs with Security Activities

拟议的项目旨在通过加州理工州立大学、加州州立大学蒙特利湾分校、哈特内尔社区学院和蒙特利学园之间的合作，扩大和成熟校外STEM项目网络冒险者。该项目寻求包括适合其目标受众的网络安全主题：初中、高中和职业生涯早期的本科生。该项目寻求新的方法，将网络安全主题纳入K-12和本科水平的现有课程，以解决合格网络安全专业人员的供需差距日益扩大的问题。开发的网络安全课程将向广大受众开放，并与正规和非正规教育背景下的现有方案协同作用。这种干预将使学生在教育早期了解网络安全职业；帮助理解数字资产的价值和相关的网络安全问题；创建活动，让学生参与通常为高级计算机科学专业学生保留的网络安全课程；并将网络安全呈现为与各种STEM领域相关的跨学科关注。安全和值得信赖的网络空间(SATC)计划资助从可信计算系统角度解决网络安全的建议，从社会学、行为学和经济学角度解决网络安全的建议，以及完全专注于网络安全教育的建议。该计划将设计与现有K-12 STEM计划协同的活动。它将提高人们对现有项目的兴趣，使这些项目多样化，吸引新的受众，并教育人们网络安全与各种STEM领域相关。由两所K-12学校和三所大专学校组成的合作网络将联合感兴趣的从业者和研究人员，并将促进加州中央海岸地区STEM利益攸关方之间的社区建设。传播战略有可能对国家一级的其他项目产生影响并为其提供信息。

The proposed project intends to expand and mature the extramural STEM program Cyber Adventurers through collaboration between the California Polytechnic State University, California State University Monterey Bay, Hartnell Community College and the Lyceum of Monterey. The project seeks to include Cybersecurity topics appropriate for its target audiences: middle school, high school, and undergraduates early in their career. The project seeks novel ways to bring Cybersecurity topics into existing curricula at the K-12 and undergraduate levels to address the widening gap between the supply and demand for qualified Cybersecurity professionals. The developed Cybersecurity lessons will be accessible to a broad audience and synergize with existing programs in formal and informal education contexts. This intervention will inform students early in their education about careers in Cybersecurity; help to understand the value of digital assets and related Cybersecurity issues; create activities to engage students in Cybersecurity lessons typically reserved for advanced computer science majors; and present Cybersecurity as an interdisciplinary concern relevant to a variety of STEM fields. The Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program funds proposals that address Cybersecurity from a Trustworthy Computing Systems perspective; a Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences perspective; and proposals focusing entirely on Cybersecurity Education.The project will design activities that synergize with existing K-12 STEM programs. It will increase interest in those existing programs, diversify those programs, engage new audiences, and educate that Cybersecurity is relevant across a variety of STEM fields. The collaboration network of two K-12 schools and three post-secondary schools will unite interested practitioners and researchers, and will facilitate community building among STEM stakeholders in the Central Coast region of California. The dissemination strategy has the potential to impact and inform other projects at the national level.