| STEM4US! Meets with Key Partners to Advance Cyber Academy, Other EFH18 Recommendations |
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A month ago, STEM4US! held the very successful EFH18 STEM Festival during the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference. Many of the festival speakers recommended that we develop more cyber training programs for youth.
These "cyber academies" could be based in K-12 schools, community colleges, and HBCUs. If done correctly, they have the power to redirect our youth from the Preschool to Prison Pipeline and create a new pipeline to cybersecurity, data analytics, and drone operations jobs. Note, many of these jobs don't require college degrees but have starting salaries of $50,000 to $90,000 per year.
Below, read about the progress we've made to advance this and other EFH18 Festival recommendations.
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| Recently, STEM4US! met with the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Employment Services (DOES) and senior members of her team about establishing a Cyber infrastructure academy in DC. We are in talks with DOES about developing a feasibility study for the program. Stand by for updates on this project! |
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| STEM4US! met with Kim Cherry, DCPS STEM chief, to discuss creating modules to help teachers train their students in cybersecurity, data analytics, and drone operations starting at Pre-K. We also examined the opportunity to expand our STEM Festival by partnering with the WeDC Festival. The idea is to make our festival a platform similar to SXSW EDU in Austin. |
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| Elizabeth Davis, President of the Washington Teachers' Union, which represents over 4800 DC educators, along with WTU Executive Director, Terence Ngwa, recently met with STEM4US! to provide feedback on our past partnerships. We also discussed ideas to increase funding for STEM professional development training for DC teachers. |
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Parents, Teachers: Strategies for Exciting Students about Cybersecurity |
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One challenge faced by those building cyber training academies is attracting and retaining students, particularly those whose backgrounds might be barriers for some employers.
To address this problem, check out the article below, which offers solutions for engaging students about cyber security jobs. The article suggests that one way to tackle this challenge is to relate cybersecurity lessons to problems youth face in their everyday lives.
Click on the box below to read the full article! |
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| EFH18 STEM Festival Pictures Now On-line |
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STEM4US! salutes all of the incredible speakers, exhibitors, and attendees who helped to make EFH18 a success.
Click the link below to view our EFH18 photo gallery. Featured speakers include EFH18 Honorary Congressional Hosts Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (CBCF Chairwoman) and Congressman Bobby Scott (Ranking Member of the House Education & Workforce Committee). |
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As you can see, STEM4US! is hard at work following up on some of the great ideas from last month's EFH18 STEM Festival.
If your company, agency, or school would like to talk with STEM4US!about ways we can help advance your cybersecurity or other STEM training programs, shoot me an email with some good meeting times to ta...@stem4us.org. Let's work together to transform our nation from the #1 producer of prison inmates to #1 producer of "cyber-defenders" and other STEM Stars! Talib I. Karim, STEM4US! Co-founder & CEO |
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