Conference Session

Voices of Diversity: Perspectives and Experiences in STEM Education

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Claire MacDonald, The University of Texas at El Paso; Palvi Aggarwal, The University of Texas at El Paso; Xiwei Wang, Northeastern Illinois University; Yun Wan; Shebuti Rayana, The State University of New York at Old Westbury; Rudy Caraballo; Sherrene Bogle, Cal Poly Humboldt

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Minorities in Engineering Division(MIND)

. Aggarwal has focused on socio-technical aspects of cybersecurity using human experiments, machine learning, and cognitive modeling. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary research lab, i.e., Psyber Security Lab at UTEP, that focuses on improving cyber defense by understanding human decision-making processes. At UTEP, Dr. Aggarwal teaches courses on Computer Security, Behavioral Cybersecurity, and Applied Computational Cognitive Modeling to undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Aggarwal has strong interdisciplinary collaborations with various universities and such collaboration will be beneficial for this project. Dr. Aggarwal published her research work in various conferences including HFES, HICSS, ICCM

Conference Session

Computers in Education Division (COED) Poster Session (Track 1.A)

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi, Missouri State University; Naomi L Dille, Missouri State University; Dhanush Bavisetti, Missouri State University; Sherrie Ilene Zook

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Computers in Education Division (COED)

improvement inhands-on learning, collaborative projects, and career support resources. Expanding mentorship programs, offeringreal-world projects, and enhancing diversity could significantly enhance student engagement and career readiness.Future work includes a thematic analysis of the student reflective surveys as well as assessing the impact of theRET experience on improving teacher pedagogic effectiveness. Nevertheless, these findings illustrate that real-world applications of ML/AI methods can significantly transform the learning environment by motivating andequipping both teachers and students to explore the technology.References 1. C. Riegle-Crumb, B. King, and Y. Irizarry, “Does stem stand out? examining racial/ethnic gaps in persistence

Conference Session

Potpourri

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University

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Women in Engineering

on surveys of the students, the program highlights willbe described. The program featured academic workshops and assignments in addition toscholarships. The workshops and assignments were all designed to help the studentsbecome a more complete engineer as well as to inform them of the opportunitiesavailable for research, internships, graduate school, and jobs after graduation. Thestudents received instruction on resumes, interviews, recommendation letters, portfolios,and consulting. In addition, students learned about graduate school from panels ofgraduate students and engineers from industry with graduate degrees.The paper will also discuss the primary lessons learned over 5 years and areas that couldbe improved. In particular, we will note

Conference Session

Student Division (STDT) Technical Session 1: Student Success and Mentoring

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alexander V Struck Jannini, Purdue University Library TSS

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Diversity

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Student Division (STDT)

ourjurisdictions or prerogatives, and tell them to work on their problems themselves?We as graduate students are pulled in many different areas and foci. Of course, we cannot giveour full attention to every undergraduate student that works in our lab. But we also know thatsometimes there are individuals who shape students into being successful, sometimes taking thechance on them and allowing them an opportunity to succeed. Perhaps reading this, you think ofa time when you were one of these students, and perhaps someone helped you get through theparticular difficulty you faced academically to be where you are today. If that is the case, whynot pay it forward? Why not be that for someone else?In this reflection paper, I want to highlight some of the

Conference Session

Our Future in Manufacturing: STEM Outreach

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Terence Fagan, Central Piedmont Community College

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Manufacturing

AC 2009-986: A COLLABORATIVE “HOW TO”: MAKING ENGINEERINGINTERESTING TO STUDENTS IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLTerence Fagan, Central Piedmont Community College Dr. Fagan earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from UNC Charlotte and is a CPCC 2008-2009 College Fellows recipient, receiving funding to conduct LCA case studies on sustainable livable habitat; create a sustainable manufacturing module; and publish and present his findings. Dr. Fagan team-taught an interdisciplinary (civil and mechanical engineering and architecture students) sustainable design studio course at UNC Charlotte in 2008. Dr. Fagan currently serves on a Habitat for Humanity committee dedicated to “greening” their products

Conference Session

Professional Issues in Civil Engineering Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E James Nelson, Brigham Young University; Gus Williams, Brigham Young University; Paul Richards, Brigham Young University; Grant Schultz, Brigham Young University; Travis Wight, Brigham Young University; Jeff Armstrong, Armstrong Forensic

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Civil Engineering

questions werecommon to all surveys. The first question was: How familiar are you with efforts byorganizations such as ASCE and NCEES to require 30 hours of coursework beyond the BSdegree for those applying for first time professional licensure? The second common questionwas: Do you agree with or support the BS + 30 requirement in the new model law?In addition to the two common questions, each survey gathered general information about theacademic training and professional status of those surveyed to determine to what degree, if any,individual sentiment was related to the education or professional status of the respondents.The academic survey contained questions about expected effects of the NCEES model law ondemand for graduate programs. The survey

Conference Session

Curriculum for Green Materials

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne Keilson, Loyola College in Maryland; robert pond, Loyola College; william karasz, Loyola College; kyle bates, Loyola College; ryan christopher, Loyola College

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Materials

should not failduring the course of normal automotive operations, which would result in the loss ofpower to car lighting systems, such as headlights, for example.Some alternatives that were considered included: a bundle assembly of wires, a stampedsheet of copper, or a ribbon cable of wires for the power distribution system. The bundleassembly is a conventional way to distribute wiring, and should be easy to route.However it would also be bulky and difficulty to hide under the upholstery if it is laid outfrom the front to back of the car. It also would not substantially improve the removalprocess, since individual wires will not be prone to break at a predetermined point,making it difficult to remove the entire core of wires without leaving a

Conference Session

Enhancing Instruction in Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amir H. Danesh-Yazdi, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, Behrend College

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Mechanics

-body diagrams was utilized by the author primarily due to aSpring semester Statics teaching assignment, where many of the students are typically repeatingthe course and require more attention. It was initially observed that while the traditional approachto teaching FBDs, in which particles or bodies are separated from their supports and attachments,was effective for some students who had already developed the intuition, there were still asignificant number of students who struggled to apply the process to different types of problemsand would resort to memorizing and patterning similar problems. As such, in order to simplifyand streamline the process for students who were struggling, a unified and relatively simpleapproach to drawing the

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith J Bowman, Illinois Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Women in Engineering

(US Census, 2015, ASEE, 2014).The two largest US states, Texas and California, both have multiple public university systemsthat educate engineers in accredited programs that include universities with strong reputations forresearch and education. Both states have a large number of public colleges and schools withABET-accredited engineering bachelor’s (BS) degree programs as shown in Table 1 (ABET,2015).The 1960 Donahue Higher Education Act, considered more broadly as California’s Master Planfor Higher Education (1960), established the course for California’s community colleges, theCalifornia State University System and the University of California System . The Master Planconsidered cost, access and faculty quality while enabling the top 12.5

Conference Session

Track: Pre-College - Technical Session 8

Collection

2019 CoNECD - The Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity

Authors

Suzanne Sontgerath, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Chrysanthe Demetry, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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Diversity, Pre-College

last 25 years.Slide 3 Evaluation of middle school outreach programs is often limited in a number of ways. Short-term only Long-term Self-selection Selection Confounding bias bias variablesOf course the main problem is underrepresentation of women and URM in STEM. Manyinstitutions are doing things to address the problem, but evaluation of middle school programslongitudinally is particularly challenging.Because of resource and time constraints, many programs only conduct short term evaluationto assess the effects of the program on participants and to identify strengths of

Conference Session

Issues of Diversity

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julie Mariga, Purdue University; Alka Harriger, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

Department offers baccalaureate degrees in information technology. Additionally, CIT offers numerous service courses to the university in the areas of pc literacy and programming. Professor Harriger's current interests include reducing the IT gender gap, web application development, and service learning. Page 12.68.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 A multi-pronged approach to address the IT gender gapAbstractIn 2005, the National Science Foundation reported that the ongoing under-representation ofwomen in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workforce

Conference Session

Sustainable Engineering

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vered Doctori Blass, University of California-Santa Barbara; Mary Hong Loan Dinh, University of California-Santa Barbara

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Environmental Engineering

2006-1763: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO A MULTI-PHASEENGINEERING PROJECT FOR THE DEVELOPING COMMUNITY OFARAYPALLPA, PERUVered Doctori Blass, University of California-Santa Barbara Vered Doctori Blass is a graduate student at the Bren school of Environmental Science & Management at UCSB. She serves as the co-president of EWB-UCSB and as the Araypallpa, Peru project manager.Mary Hong Loan Dinh, University of California-Santa Barbara Mary Dinh is a Staff Engineer in the Mechanical Engineering Department at UCSB. She develops undergraduate laboratory courses. She also serves as the staff advisor for EWB-UCSB

Conference Session

Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics Instruction

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Foley, U.S. Coast Guard Academy

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Mechanical Engineering

use of the second law is discussed. Thefirst are those that can effectively get by without the second law, able to solve mostproblems with careful use of the first law. The second category are those that use thesecond law correctly but simply as a tool without an in depth physical understanding.This is not uncommon in engineering as one simply has to think of the widespread use ofLaplace transforms, or more recently the surge in the use of complex stress analysis orcomputational fluids software where users do not understand the intricacies of the toolbut use them anyway. While not ideal this approach is invariably successful as long as thelimitations of the tool are not exceeded. Comfort is gained in the knowledge thatnumerous previous users

Conference Session

Energy Project and Laboratory Ideas

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Lee Greguske; Justin Reese; Frederik Betz; Chad Weis; Michael Swedish; Glenn Wrate

both private and publicorganizations that focuses on saving energy and money for the people and corporations inWisconsin. Focus on Energy provides businesses and residents with education and technicalservices. Their aim is to help people save money and improve their economic well being,increase energy reliability and efficiency, and reduce the need for fossil fuels; improvingWisconsin’s environmental future. The services that are offered to the clients of Focus onEnergy are provided by a group of firms, contracted by the Wisconsin Department of Page 8.377.1Administration’s Division of Energy1. As part of this work, Focus on Energy does

Conference Session

Information and Network Security

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jane LeClair, National Cybersecurity Institute at Excelsior College; Denise Pheils, National Cybersecurity Institute

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Computing & Information Technology

datawith regard to its employees, customers and operations. That data needs to be kept confidential atall costs since the release of that information could put much in jeopardy. Likewise, the integrityof the data contained in an organization’s computer systems must remain valid, intact andunaltered. The third leg of the triad is accessibility. Data could be easily protected if it werelocked in a vault and well guarded, but that would not permit the members of the organization,those with a ‘need to know’, to have access to the data in the day-to-day operations of theorganization. Lack of accessibility would, of course, affect the efficiency and effectiveness of theorganization.Data must be accessible to those people who have a need for it, and yet

Conference Session

Emerging Trends in Engineering Education

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Ann Beheler; Wayne Jones

;Exposition Page 9.4.5 Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationIII. Problem – Oriented Instructional Methodology – Wireless TelephonyThe first example of a case study employing problems based instruction is from our WirelessTelephony (EECT 2437) course in the Division of Engineering Technology. This project isentitled the Mars Pictures Case Study, and in this “simulation” the NASA Mars Visual – SpaceDiscovery Group (Johnson Space Center) has contracted a company (students) to configure aWide Area Network (WAN) that is capable of effectively and efficiently disseminating digitalimages transmitted back

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Electrical ET

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean Daly; Roman Stemprok

Session 2648 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE PC SKILLS APPLIED TO A SOUND CANCELLATION PROJECT Sean Daly and Roman Stemprok University of North TexasAbstractDeveloped societies experience an increased level of noise pollution. A Sound Cancellationproject was incorporated into a 2 hour-credit Electronics Specials Problems course. The activecontrol of sound is a solution by making an anti-noise for every known noise volume. The anti-noise signal will cancel itself along with the noise. A computer runs an adaptive noise controlalgorithm in assembly code. The program takes input

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Victoria Aladejana; Gregory Payne; Gbekeloluwa Oguntimein

graduatelevel, with only 3% of all Maryland master’s degrees granted in 1990 going to African-Americans. There are no doctorates awarded to African-Americans” 3. Based on these facts aproposal with the specific objective directed at increasing the number of minority graduatesprepared to effectively contribute to the U.S. SEM workforce was submitted by Morgan StateUniversity (MSU) to the Department of Defense to establish the Infrastructure SupportEducation Program (ISEP), NSF and ONR. The primary objectives of the program are: 1. To double the number of SEM degrees awarded to African –Americans from 140 t0 280 in three years and to triple them in five years. 2. To achieve this by increasing the first

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Holly M Golecki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Karin Jensen, University of Michigan; Karen T. Klebbe, Centennial High School, Champaign IL; Thomas Tran, University of Chicago; Elizabeth Ann McNeela, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

students and has published literature and results detailing students’ perceptions of engineering. He is currently pursuing a Master’s of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.Elizabeth Ann McNeela, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Bioengineering undergraduate student interested in the effects of outreach programs and curriculums on engineering enrollment. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Measuring the Impact of a Soft Robotics Curriculum Embedded in Physics Classes on Students' Engineering Knowledge, Identity, and Career InterestAbstractParticipation in extracurricular educational robotics, tinkering, and building are commonprecursors

Collection

2007 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

William M. Baer

SafeAssignment make plagiarism much easier to detect. The fear of detection stopsmany would-be offenders before they start, but it has its limitations. Education strives to teachthe student what plagiarism is and why it is wrong. There is a strong belief that one of the maincauses of plagiarism is a lack of understanding. Often students don’t understand what plagiarismis and how they can avoid it. This paper focuses on the effects education can have to reduceplagiarism. Furthermore, the paper discusses a series of short videos which the author created to helpteach students to ethically use engineering information. They are designed to be inserted into aclass’s BlackBoard site. In addition to plagiarism, these videos summarize copyright

Conference Session

Mechanical Engineering Laboratories I

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Forsberg, Hofstra University

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Mechanical Engineering

AC 2011-1108: A DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS EXPERIMENT FOR THEFLUID MECHANICS CLASSROOMCharles Forsberg, Hofstra University Charles H. Forsberg is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Hofstra University, where he primarily teaches courses in the thermal/fluids area. He received a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from Polytech- nic Institute of Brooklyn and an M. S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ph. D. from Columbia University. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in New York State. Page 22.37.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 A Dimensional Analysis

Conference Session

K-12 Poster Session

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Suzanne Soled; Laura Koehl; Nicholas Harth

about being able to learn math and science.Reflections of the engineering students responsible for implementing the activity are alsodiscussed.Background Project STEP (Science and Technology Program) is a joint effort between theColleges of Engineering and Education at the University of Cincinnati to partner withschools in the Cincinnati Public School system. Project STEP connects engineeringgraduate students with middle and high school science educators to help bring authenticlearning activities into the classroom. The project is funded through the NSF GK12program to enhance science education. Over the course of the three year program, STEPhas involved 16 graduate and 8 undergraduate fellows working with 33 teachersdistributed

Conference Session

Using IT to Enhance Design Education

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Kampe

can be easily computed: DT Q = -k × Dt Eq. 1 Drwhere k is the thermal conductivity of the insulating material and DT/Dr approximates thethrough-thickness thermal gradient. From a performance stand-point, materials with thelowest values of thermal conductivity would appear to represent the most viable candidates,independent of the extensive functional needs (DT/Dr, Dt) of the design. DT, Dr Figure 1. Insulation of a thickness Dr supporting a thermal temperature change of DT.* The effect of increasing radius on heat transfer is not expected to influence

Collection

2024 ASEE-GSW

Authors

Randall D. Manteufel, The University of Texas at San Antonio; R. Lyle Hood, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Alifer D. Crom, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Amir Karimi, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Spring 2023 semester which is similar to assignments given inprevious semesters. The focus was sustainable energy. The learning objectives of the assignment Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Conference West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX Copyright  2024, American Society for Engineering Education 2were broader than the objectives of typical homework and exams covered in the course. Using ABET[7] terminology, most of the course is devoted to student outcome (SO) #1: “an ability to identify,formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science,and

Collection

2022 ASEE Gulf Southwest Annual Conference

Authors

Jay R Porter, Texas A&M University; Paul M Koola, Texas A&M University; Rahul Subramanian, Ocean Engineering, Texas A and M University

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Diversity

University Dr Subramanian is currently a lecturer with the Ocean Engineering Department at Texas A and M Uni- versity at Galveston. He is primarily involved with teaching and mentoring undergraduates. He teaches courses including design of ships and floating structures, fluid mechanics and computational methods for engineers. Professional interests include developing and applying computational hydromechanics towards the hydrodynamic design of floating structures and engineering education. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2022 1

Conference Session

Session 6: The Philosophy and Practice of Academic Makerspaces

Collection

2017 EDI

Authors

Dan Brateris; Moshe Kam; Vincent Wilczynski

making(engineering) is trendingmakeschools.orgmaking origins: engineering as building1890engineering ascalculating1950engineering as design1996engineering as making2017 makerspace programminglearn workshops training courses open club summermake studio support fellowships social networking&share careerevents lectures events informal formal engineering education trendsU.S. engineering education Sputnik established making ABET 2000 calculating higher ed. makerspacesacademic

Conference Session

Industrial Collaborations and Applications

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Wolf, Oregon Institute of Technology

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Engineering Technology

Award, and the Distinguished Service Award. He is a member of Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Tau Alpha Pi, Epsilon Pi Tau, and the AAUP. Page 12.886.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 INDUSTRIAL CAPSTONE COURSES FOR MANUFACTURING AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE STUDENTS ALREADY EMPLOYED IN INDUSTRYAbstractAt the extension sites in Portland, Oregon Institute of Technology bachelor-degree students inManufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology employed full-time in technicalpositions in industry have since 1999 been

Conference Session

Issues and Opportunities in IE Education

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Eric Bickel, University of Texas, Austin

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Industrial Engineering

AC 2009-2249: EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AND STRICTLY PROPER SCORINGRULESJ. Eric Bickel, University of Texas, Austin Page 14.607.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Experiential Learning and Strictly Proper Scoring RulesAbstractExperiential learning is perhaps the most effective way to teach. One example is the scoringprocedure used for exams in some decision analysis programs. Under this grading scheme,students take a multiple-choice exam, but rather than simply marking which answer they think iscorrect, they must assign a probability to each possible answer. The exam is then scored with aspecial scoring rule, under which students’ best strategy is to

Conference Session

Career Development for Engineering Professionals

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L. Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering); Mark T. Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Diversity

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Continuing Professional Development

. Springer possesses a significant strength in pattern recognition, analyzing and improving organizational systems. He is internationally recognized, has contributed to scholarship more than 200 books, articles, presentations, editorials and reviews on software development methodologies, management, organizational change, and program management. Dr. Springer sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions, most recently, the Purdue University, College of Technology, Equity, Inclusion and Advocacy Award. Dr. Springer is the President of the Indiana Council for Continuing Education as well as the Past-Chair of the Continuing Professional

Conference Session

Pre-College Engineering Education in the Formal Classroom

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Giti Javidi, University of South Florida; Ehsan Sheybani, University of South Florida

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Pre-College Engineering Education

are proposing a model that can help narrow the cybersecurity workforcegap by introducing students to cybersecurity by building a pipeline towardscybersecurity careers for students and empowering teachers to integrate cybersecurityinto their own classrooms and becoming advocates for cybersecurity awareness in theirschool districts.Our long-term vision is to have cybersecurity taught at every high school using ourmodules as a standalone subject or to weave it into computer science courses, or APcourses in particular. The goal is to have every high school in the region establishcybersecurity clubs with diverse group of students and a teacher mentor who canprovide them with the training to participate in local, regional and nationalcybersecurity