SAN BERNARDINO>> San Bernardino Valley College (SBVC) has been selected to participate in the second season of the Air Force Association’s (AFA) CyberCamp Program this summer. The camp will be taught by SBVC cybersecurity faculty and students, will host 50 students from July 11 to July 15, 8am to noon, in Room B100 at SBVC, located at 701 S. Mount Vernon Ave., San Bernardino, Ca 92410.
As an AFA CyberCamp host, SBVC will receive software and a hands-on curriculum kit designed to teach students cyber safety, cyber ethics, and critical network security skills and tools. Each AFA CyberCamp culminates in an exciting team-based competition that puts the campers in the role of IT administrators tasked with finding and addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities in simulated network environments.
The local AFA CyberCamp competitions will closely mimic AFA’s annual CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, entering its ninth season in October.
“SBVC is, through its faculty, helping to make the Inland Empire a center of high technology defense,” explained Chancellor Bruce Baron. “Dr. Roger Powell, the organizer and principal instructor of the camp, is one of the college’s top computer science and information technology professors. His cybersecurity program at SBVC has been recognized by CSU San Bernardino as well.”