{"id":1137,"date":"2018-07-25T18:57:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T18:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2019-10-11T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:58:59","slug":"nw-cyber-camp-comes-to-oregon-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2018\/07\/25\/nw-cyber-camp-comes-to-oregon-state\/","title":{"rendered":"NW Cyber Camp comes to Oregon State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zander Work (right) helps a student at the NW Cyber Camp held at Oregon State University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A week-long STEM Academy<\/a> camp to introduce high-school students to cybersecurity was held on the Oregon State University through campus last week. Although it was the first time the camp was held in Corvallis, it is the third year the camp has been operating.<\/p>\n

The location was not happenstance. NW Cyber Camp<\/a> co-founder, Zander Work, just completed his freshman year at Oregon State where he made connections with faculty and graduate students in cyber security who helped teach the courses. Instructors also included alumni and other industry representatives from NuScale Power, McAfee, Splunk, NetSPI, Cylance, and PKI Solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students were awesome,\u201d Work said. \u201cEveryone was very engaged with the speakers and they asked a lot of good questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The goal of the camp is to get more students interested in the field of cybersecurity which has over 300,000 unfilled job openings, according to Cyber Seek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe camp has definitely shown me a lot more opportunities for what I can do in the future with cybersecurity,\u201d said Grace, one of the camp participants. \u201cThere are a lot of different fields you can go into like data science, machine learning, ethical hacking, or security work. That\u2019s been really cool to learn about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jayde, another camp participant, already has plans to join the Air Force and focus on cybersecurity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really liked the hands-on activities and learning about real examples of hacking,\u201d Jayde said.<\/p>\n

Both students mentioned it was harder than they were expecting, but in a good way.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe guest speakers have been fantastic. Everyone is knowledgeable and teach at a rigorous enough level that people don\u2019t get bored,\u201d Grace said.<\/p>\n

The 20 students at the Oregon State camp came from Corvallis, Albany, Philomath and Lebanon. The camp overall hosted 110 students this summer including sites in Portland, Gresham, Wilsonville, and Bend.<\/p>\n

Rakesh Bobba, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the faculty organizer for the event said, \u201cIt was really fun. We would definitely like to host it at Oregon State again, and hopefully expand it to reach more students.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Students working at NW Cyber Camp held at Oregon State University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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