CyberPDX has been running, in some form, for 6 years. We started as a CyberDiscovery camp bringing high school teachers and their students together for a combined 1-week intensive cybersecurity camp on the Portland State Campus. Today, our unique interdisciplinary program focuses on professional development for middle and high school teachers interested in bringing cybersecurity and computing into their courses, no matter what subject they teach.
While a single week is a limited amount of time for in-depth instruction, our camp offers newcomers a strong foundation in basic computing & cybersecurity, and provides opportunities for returning campers to continue to grow their skillset and develop their professional networks in the Pacific Northwest region. Teachers from our camp have done everything from launch new semester-long cybersecurity electives to integrating mini-cryptography lessons in art and history classes.
2020 – Camp overview poster for SIGCSE 2020 [PDF]
You can read more about our camp’s history and approach in these publications:
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2020 – CyberPDX: An Interdisciplinary Professional Development Program for Middle and High School Teachers (ACM Digital Library)
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Ellie Harmon, Veronica Hotton, Robert Liebman, Michael Lupro, Wu-chang Feng, Lois Delcambre, and David Pouliot. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1335. https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3372652
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- 2020 – Securing the Next Generation (ACM Digital Library)
- Wu-chang Feng, Bob Liebman, Ellie Harmon, Veronica Hotton, Michael Lupro, and Lois Delcambre. In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1384. https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3372665
- 2019 – Literature Circles: Novel Ways to Learn about Cybersecurity (YouTube Video)
- Veronica Hotton & Ellie Harmon. At BSides PDX (https://bsidespdx.org).
- 2018 – CyberPDX: A Camp for Broadening Participation in Cybersecurity (YouTube Video)
- Wu-chang Feng. At BSides PDX (https://bsidespdx.org).
- 2017 – CyberPDX: A Camp for Broadening Participation in Cybersecurity (Workshop Website)
- Wu-chang Feng, Robert Liebman, Lois Delcambre, Michael Lupro, Tim Sheard, Scott Britell, and Gerald Recktenwald. At 2017 USENIX Workshop on Advances in Security Education. https://www.usenix.org/conference/ase17/workshop-program/presentation/feng
- 2016 – A “Divergent”-Themed CTF and Urban Race for Introducing Security and Cryptography (Workshop Website)
- Wu-chang Feng. At 2016 USENIX Workshop on Advances in Security Education. https://www.usenix.org/conference/ase16/workshop-program/presentation/feng