RET Site: Cybersecurity Research Experience for Educators through Data Science (CREEDS)

RET 网站：通过数据科学为教育工作者提供网络安全研究经验 (CREEDS)

• 批准号: 2206982
• 负责人: Deepak Tosh
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2206982&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Cybersecurity; Research; Experience

Emerging cybersecurity challenges require groundbreaking solutions that employ technologies like the internet-of-things and artificial intelligence. It is therefore vital to equip students with the computer science skills necessary to pursue careers in these fields. The University of Texas El Paso aims to address this issue by engaging middle and high school instructors in a 6-week immersive summer research program focused on high priority and emerging cybersecurity topics. The site will recruit 10 educators from the primarily Hispanic-serving Independent School Districts of El Paso in an effort to broaden participation and build long-term partnerships between teachers, faculty mentors, and industry advisors in the bi-national metropolis. Through these collaborations, educators will return to their classrooms with deeper cybersecurity content knowledge and curricular modules to inspire their students towards computing, data science, cybersecurity, and problem solving.This RET Site at the University of Texas El Paso will engage Middle and High Schools STEM teachers from El Paso County in cybersecurity and data science research. The main objectives of the RET Site are to: (1) strategically recruit middle and high school teachers and offer high-quality research experience on both technical and ethical aspects of computer science with special focus on cybersecurity and data science; (2) provide continuous collaborative support to develop curricular training modules for delivering to middle and high school students; (3) enable training the trainers/mentors to efficiently engage the RET participants in their research; (4) offer authentic research experience through 6-weeks of summer institute; (5) Disseminate and promote Site’s results to local and national educators.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

新兴的网络安全挑战需要采用物联网和人工智能等技术的突破性解决方案。因此，至关重要的是让学生掌握在这些领域从事职业所需的计算机科学技能。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校旨在通过让初中和高中教师参与为期6周的沉浸式夏季研究计划来解决这一问题，该计划专注于高优先级和新兴的网络安全主题。该网站将从埃尔帕索主要为西班牙裔服务的独立学区招募10名教育工作者，以扩大参与，并在两国大都会的教师、教师导师和行业顾问之间建立长期伙伴关系。通过这些合作，教育工作者将带着更深入的网络安全内容知识和课程模块回到课堂，激励学生学习计算、数据科学、网络安全和解决问题。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的RET网站将吸引埃尔帕索县的中学和高中STEM教师参与网络安全和数据科学研究。RET网站的主要目标是：（1）战略性地招聘初中和高中教师，并提供计算机科学技术和伦理方面的高质量研究经验，特别关注网络安全和数据科学;（2）提供持续的合作支持，以开发面向初中和高中学生的课程培训模块;（3）使培训员/导师能够有效地使可再生能源技术参与者参与其研究;（4）通过为期6周的暑期研究所提供真实的研究经验;（五）向地方和国家教育工作者传播和推广站点的成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得支持通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估。