Hawaiʻi women in grades 8-12 are inspired to use for the”CompuGirls Hawaiʻi Spring Camp 2021″ program. The free and digital program is geared toward introducing and educating underrepresented Hawaiʻi women in STEM training, cybersecurity and data know-how.
College students will take part in 9 two-hour periods 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 offers Hawaiʻi women with the distinctive alternative to discover cybersecurity and IT with entry to mentors, job shadowing and trade internships,” mentioned Jodi Ito, chair of CyberHawaii and chief info safety officer of the College of Hawai‘i. “Following the success of our Fall 2020 program, we sit up for 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 embody using progressive applied sciences corresponding to Collect.City, a digital area for college students 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 apply 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 rather more.
Registration for CompuGirls Hawaiʻi Spring Camp 2021 is free and open to Hawaiʻi women, grades 8-12. College students who wouldn’t have entry to a laptop computer with USB ports and/or Wi-Fi should point out that of their utility and units will likely be offered to them throughout this system.
The inaugural CompuGirls Hawaii Fall cohort was led by Hawaii public faculty academics chosen as mentor-teachers to implement the curriculum and have been accountable for scholar tutorial progress. 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 rising alternatives for ladies of shade 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 objective of CompuGirls Hawaii is to introduce Hawaii women, from populations historically underrepresented in STEM, to cybersecurity and IT as a area of research and viable profession path.
