Program Description:
Dartmouth College’s Institute for Security, Technology and Society (ISTS) offers a summer workshop for high school students exploring current interdisciplinary research in cyber security and privacy. As our nation's critical infrastructure and businesses come under cyber attack, there is an ever-increasing need to educate more students to enable the expansion of our cybersecurity workforce.
Please note that this workshop is a day program only - there is no on-campus lodging provided.
Adam Goldstein is the current workshop leader. Adam is the IT Security Engineer with Dartmouth’s Information Technology Services, where he is the technical lead for information security operations and serves as the security adviser on numerous IT projects and working groups.
This program for high school students includes the following topics:
• Introduction to Computer Security and Case Studies
• Ethics Discussion (at the beginning and end of the program)
• Security in the "Real World"
• Security best practices and security awareness
• Security terminology
• Studies and careers in computer security
• Primers on security as related to: Networks (e.g., through intrusion detection), Systems and Humans.
The program mixes in lectures with hands-on and interactive activities, augmented with field trips and guest speakers. In keeping with the outreach mission of ISTS, participants are requested to complete an outreach project of their own design to spread the word about cyber security.