Crichigno, J., & Ahmed, S., & Gerdes, J. H., & Brookshire, R. G. (2019, June), Building a Cybersecurity Pipeline through Experiential Virtual Labs and Workforce Alliances  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32481

\bibitem{asee_peer_32481}
  Crichigno, J., \& Ahmed, S., \& Gerdes, J. H., \& Brookshire, R. G. (2019, June), \emph{Building a Cybersecurity Pipeline through Experiential Virtual Labs and Workforce Alliances}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32481

Jorge Crichigno, Sadia Ahmed, John H. Gerdes, and Robert G. Brookshire.  "Building a Cybersecurity Pipeline through Experiential Virtual Labs and Workforce Alliances".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32481 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32481}
  Jorge Crichigno, Sadia Ahmed, John H. Gerdes, and Robert G. Brookshire.
  "Building a Cybersecurity Pipeline through Experiential Virtual Labs and Workforce Alliances".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32481 Internet.  26 Apr, 2024

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