Hawaiʻi women in grades 8-12 are inspired to use for the”CompuGirls Hawaiʻi Spring Camp 2021″ program. The free and digital program is aimed toward introducing and educating underrepresented Hawaiʻi women in STEM training, cybersecurity and data know-how.
College students will take part in 9 two-hour classes on Saturdays from Feb. 20 – April 24, 2021 and will likely be supplied with full entry to the curriculum and actions. The registration deadline is Friday, Feb. 12, 2021.
“CompuGirls Hawaiʻi gives Hawaiʻi women with the distinctive alternative to discover cybersecurity and IT with entry to mentors, job shadowing and business internships,” stated Jodi Ito, chair of CyberHawaii and chief data safety officer of the College of Hawai‘i. “Following the success of our Fall 2020 program, we look ahead to welcoming a brand new Spring cohort and interesting college students in new actions, whereas connecting them with native leaders and exploring potential profession paths.”
The Spring Camp will embrace using progressive applied sciences reminiscent of Collect.City, a digital house for college kids to work together extra successfully on-line combining video-calling with a 2D map, and micro:bit, a pocket-sized laptop that introduces how software program and {hardware} work collectively. As well as, college students will likely be launched to cryptography: the observe of encrypting and decrypting information; the function of ciphers in cybersecurity: guessing the cipher key to disclose encrypted information; whether or not cracking ciphers is moral; and way more.
Registration for CompuGirls Hawaiʻi Spring Camp 2021 is free and open to Hawaiʻi women, grades 8-12. College students who would not have entry to a laptop computer with USB ports and/or Wi-Fi should point out that of their software and gadgets will likely be supplied to them throughout this system.
The inaugural CompuGirls Hawaii Fall cohort was led by Hawaii public college lecturers chosen as mentor-teachers to implement the curriculum and have been accountable for pupil tutorial development. The Fall cohort had 49 college students representing Oʻahu, Maui, Lānaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island with a big quantity figuring out as Native Hawaiian or having a couple of ethnicity.
CompuGirls Hawaii is an affiliate of COMPUGIRLS, a nationwide program targeted on growing alternatives for women of coloration within the fields of science and know-how. This system was developed in partnership with CyberHawaii, the College of Hawai‘i, Arizona State College Middle for Gender Fairness in Science and Expertise and the Protection STEM Training Consortium. The purpose of CompuGirls Hawaii is to introduce Hawaii women, from populations historically underrepresented in STEM, to cybersecurity and IT as a discipline of examine and viable profession path.
