GenCyberCamps
The Department of Computer Information Technology and Graphics at Purdue University Northwest offers a five-day free GenCyber 2025 Summer Camp for High School Students.
About the Camp
GenCyber Summer Camp will immerse you in learner-centered, hands-on labs and gameplay activities, including cyber security awareness education gameplay, robot game design, security practices in wireless networks, cryptography, ethical hacking labs and cyber forensics cases.
Let’s have fun with this five-day summer camp and learn GenCyber Six (6) Cybersecurity Concepts, cyber security awareness, and discover if a higher education and a career in cyber security is right for you.
During the summer camp, high school students will be asked to participate in two voluntary surveys. However, the decision to participate in those surveys will not impact the student’s eligibility to attend the summer camp.
Your registration confirmation will be emailed in late April or early May 2025.
Schedule 2025
GenCyber Camp for High School Students
- June 9 through 13
- 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Daily Schedule
- Day 1: Cyber security awareness training 6 cybersecurity concepts training via educational games and cybersecurity games developed for the CAE RING project.
- Day 2: Play a Wi-Fi scavenger hunt game using Raspberry Pi to allow students to apply 6 Cybersecurity Concepts and network security concepts.
- Day 3: Introduce a Sparki-based robot game programming, 2) Apply robot game programming via a robot game team competition.
- Day 4: Ethical hacking and digital forensics practice.
- Day 5: Team competition to solve a simulated computer forensics case.
Before Camp
- Pre-Camp Activities – Two 6-hour Sessions
- Dates TBD – April & May
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
After Camp
- Post-Camp Activities – Two 6-hour Sessions
- Dates TBD – August & September
- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Participants Receive
- Free lunch during each day of the summer camp
- Free GenCyber T-Shirt and USB drive
- A certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the camp