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

新出现的网络安全挑战需要采用物联网和人工智能等技术的开创性解决方案。因此，让学生掌握在这些领域从事职业所必需的计算机科学技能是至关重要的。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加为期6周的沉浸式暑期研究项目来解决这一问题，该项目重点关注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服务于西班牙裔的独立学区招募10名教育工作者，以努力扩大参与范围，并在这个由两个国家组成的大都市的教师、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，以激励他们的学生从事计算、数据科学、网络安全和问题解决。德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的这个RET网站将邀请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，特别是网络安全和数据科学；(2)提供持续的协作支持，以开发面向初中生的课程培训模块；(3)培训培训者/导师，使他们能够有效地参与RET参与者的研究；(4)通过为期6周的暑期班提供真实的研究经验；(5)向当地和国家教育工作者传播和推广SITE的成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.