IUP, along with a selected group of national universities, has been awarded funding in the 2019-20 academic year from the Department of Defense in support of the Cyber Scholarship Program.

The goal of this capacity-building project is to find additional ways to recruit more students to enter the cybersecurity workforce. This goal will be achieved through a unique blend of faculty development, hands-on workshops, and the continued cultivation of relationships with local community colleges. As a result, this project includes a number of workshops at community colleges in western Pennsylvania.

In these videos, students and faculty members talk about their experiences with the IUP Cybersecurity Workshops, which took place at Westmoreland County Community College and Penn Highlands Community College.

Carrie Bizich

Sophomore, Computer Science
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

Chris Winters

Sophomore in Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

Greg Paonessa

Instructor of Computer Science
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

Jackson Bower

Adjunct Instructor for Ethical Hacking
Department of Computer Information Sciences
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

Leisa Zuccolotto

Instructor, Computer Information and Communications Technology
Pennsylvania Highlands Community College

John Struble

Network Coordinator, Systems Administrator
Westmoreland County Community College

Judith Scheeren

Associate Professor
Westmoreland County Community College

Michael Caglia

Assistant Professor, Computer Technology
Westmoreland County Community College

Kendra Cook and Adam Perkins

Students
Westmoreland County Community College

Waleed Farag

Virtual Workshop Introduction
Fall 2020 LBI/LTI Cybersecurity Workshop

Waleed Farag

Raspberry Pi Virtual Session: Assembly
Fall 2020 LBI/LTI Cybersecurity Workshop

Imran Ghani

MySQL and PHP Virtual Session
Fall 2020 LBI/LTI Cybersecurity Workshop

Jeff Pulcini

Agile and Scrum Virtual Session
Fall 2020 LBI/LTI Cybersecurity Workshop

For more information on the DoD Capacity Building Project, please visit the project page or contact Dr. Waleed Farag at farag@iup.edu.