2025 PNW Lilly Cybersecurity Camp

Are you interested in learning game design and how to program?

The Department of Computer Information Technology and Graphics at Purdue University Northwest is offering a 1-week free Lilly Cybersecurity Summer Camp for high school students in June 2025. The Lilly Cybersecurity Summer Camp will immerse you in learner-centered, hands-on labs and game play activities, including cyber security awareness education game play, robot game design, security practices in wireless network, cryptography, ethical hacking labs and cyber forensics cases.

Let’s have fun with this five-day summer camp and learn cyber security concepts 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 voluntarily surveys. However, the decision to participate in those surveys will not impact the students’ eligibility to attend the summer camp.

Schedule of activities:

• Day 1: Cyber security awareness training, cybersecurity concepts training via educational games and cybersecurity games developed for CAE RING project.
• Day 2: Play Wi-Fi scavenger hunt game using Raspberry Pi to allow students apply Cybersecurity Concepts and network security concepts.
• Day 3: Introduce a Sparki based robot game programming, along with Applying the 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.

Registration 

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Camp Details

Ages:

• High School Students

Time

• Monday to Friday
• 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

To request a disability-related accommodation, please contact the Office of Institutional Equity at oie@pnw.edu or (219) 989-2163 five days prior to the event.

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