Fayette County Public Schools cybersecurity summer camp set for next week
Fifty Fayette County 5th through 8th-graders will spend next week in the public school district’s 2nd annual free cybersecurity summer camp in the district’s Russell Cave Road warehouse. Vee Pryor is the program manager for the district’s Office of Innovation. She said the program was designed by two Microsoft cybersecurity analysts who are leaders in the field.
“They created this game that exposes students to learning about cyber and how to stop attacks. And so this, it makes it fun and engaging and interactive.”
Pryor said parents can access a portal that summarizes the campers’ work each day and learn more about cybersecurity themselves – and last year’s campers learned a lot.
“They just went to another level, like they accelerated transferable skills, analytical skills, asking deeper questions by the end of the camp.”
Pryor said she expects the campers to pass on cybersecurity tips to their elders and others for years to come.
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