"NSA-Funded GenCyber Cybersecurity Summer Bootcamp Reveals Exciting Career Opportunities for Richmond-Area Students"
At the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) College of Engineering's GenCyber Cybersecurity Summer Bootcamp, over 40 middle and high school students from the Richmond area learned about cybersecurity. The program is part of a nationwide initiative sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). GenCyber aims to increase cybersecurity awareness and introduce K-12 students from Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) schools and underrepresented communities to career opportunities in cybersecurity. Students were introduced to topics such as social network privacy, online safety, HTML programming, Linux administration, Raspberry Pi device networking, basic hacking, defensive computer techniques, and basic digital forensics. In addition to increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in the cybersecurity industry, VCU Engineering's GenCyber program seeks to increase the number of women pursuing professions in cybersecurity.