Campus Spotlight

July 11, 2023

<p>Students from eighth to 12th grade learned about online safety, cybersecurity and defense, and cyber ethics during the GenCyber camp, held July 10-14 as part of RIT’s K-12 University Center’s Camp Tiger. The camp typically draws between 100 to 200 applicants and accepts 40 students, according to Daniel Krutz, RIT assistant professor of software engineering, who runs the program. Every year, five to 10 students from the camp will enroll at RIT. “If campers walk away thinking, ‘Cybersecurity—or STEM—is cool, and I want to learn more about it’—then I count that as a success,” Krutz said. Robert St Jacques and Bruce Herring, both RIT lecturers of software engineering, are co-teaching the GenCyber camp.</p>

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Students from eighth to 12th grade learned about online safety, cybersecurity and defense, and cyber ethics during the GenCyber camp, held July 10-14 as part of RIT’s K-12 University Center’s Camp Tiger. The camp typically draws between 100 to 200 applicants and accepts 40 students, according to Daniel Krutz, RIT assistant professor of software engineering, who runs the program. Every year, five to 10 students from the camp will enroll at RIT. “If campers walk away thinking, ‘Cybersecurity—or STEM—is cool, and I want to learn more about it’—then I count that as a success,” Krutz said. Robert St Jacques and Bruce Herring, both RIT lecturers of software engineering, are co-teaching the GenCyber camp.

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