Cybersecurity Education in Maryland
October is cybersecurity education awareness month. November's focus is Cyber Career week. Plan ahead!
What's available?
- Opportunities for students.
- Cyberstart game for high school students with prizes each year.
- PicoCTF https://picoctf.org/
- Teacher and administrator events and resources
- Lesson plans and resources on election security.
- GenCyber camp for teachers are usually available each summer through Towson or UMGC
- What every teacher should know about personal cybersecurity in Maryland
- Earn recognition as a Common Sense school or district.
- Book a virtual field trip with the National Cryptologic Museum
- Guidelines on a well-rounded cyber curriculum for high school.
- Check out ongoing PD opportunities for teaching cyber at cs4md.com/pd
- Free curriculum.
- Free Teach Cyber High School fully year curriculum. (Year 2 coming soon to develop a CTE pathway) Find more professional development at cs4md.com/pd
- STEM, robotics, computational thinking and cyber curriculum from Cyber.org
- Middle School 9-week course developed in Maryland in collaboration with TeachCyber
Watch our video series on careers in cyber
- An overview of the many different career fields in cyber (Mark Loepker)
- Cyber Career Interview: Nate Street
- Cyber Career interview: Michael Long
- Cyber Career Interview: Mark Loepker, getting started in cyber
This series is provided with the help and support of the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation, Towson University, and SANS.