Free one-week cybersecurity camp for high schoolers

If this topic is interests your child, they can learn all about it at no charge.

Kids can learn to outsmart cyberhackers in a free, 8-day summer camp.

BY DEBORAH SKOLNIK

Is your kid a techie who’s interested in preventing computer hacks? Pace University has a free, 8-day summer camp, Camp CrypoBot, for students who would like to learn more about this field.

Funded through a grant by the National Security Agency, CryptoBot a dynamic, interactive, and mission-driven camp that introduces high school students to the cybersecurity basis.It SeaPerch, an underwater robot, plus drones and spheros as the platform for teaching cryptography though storytelling, hands-on labs, and problem-solving missions.

It’s a particularly good program for girls to try: The gender gap between males and females in cybersecurity is widening— CryptoBot uses a model that encourages young women to take risks while combating the fear of failure. Camp CryptoBot seeks to equip, educate, and empower young women such that they can sustain the rigors of being a woman in a male-dominated discipline and thrive.

Click here to watch two videos that showcase the camp. To learn how to apply (applications are due by March; selections are announced in April), click here.