GenCyberCamps

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.

Location

Purdue University Northwest, Hammond Campus, Anderson Building

Schedule 2025

GenCyber Camp for High School Students

• June 9 through 13
• Daily 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Registration

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

About the Camp

The Department of Computer Information Technology and Graphics at Purdue University Northwest will be offering face-to-face, 5-day GenCyber Teacher Camp for high school teachers for 2025. The registration will be available soon.

There are 20 spots available in the camp and these spots come with a $1,000 stipend for each teacher. The full-time GenCyber Teacher camp in July will be preceded by two 6-hour virtual online pre-camps, late June and early July, to help teachers familiarize themselves with terminology, some cybersecurity concepts, and provide confirmation of attendance for the face-to-face summer camp. There will be three 6-hour virtual post-camp activities from September 2025 to Jan 2026.

Some of the areas that will be covered in the summer camp will introduce high school teachers to cybersecurity concepts using the 6 GenCyber Cybersecurity Concepts, cyber safety and awareness related to passwords, networks, social engineering, and hands-on lab activities that include C language programming using a Sparki robot and IoT vulnerabilities and security using a Raspberry Pi including Python object-oriented programming to improve software security.

Additionally, there will be hands-on labs for cryptography, encryption, ethical hacking and cyber forensics. Teachers will develop cybersecurity course modules that they can use in their classrooms.

Location

Purdue University Northwest, Hammond Campus, Anderson Building

Schedule 2025

GenCyber Camp for High School Teachers

• July 14 through 18
• Daily 9 a.m to 4:30 p.m

Registration Coming Soon

Daily Schedule

• Day 1: Cybersecurity Introduction, Threats, Fundamentals, and GenCyber Cybersecurity Concepts.
• Day 2: Ethics and Cryptography.
• Day 3: Arduino Robot Programming.
• Day 4: Ethical Hacking, Forensics, and Linux.
• Day 5: Software Assurance, IoT Device Vulnerabilities and Python Programming.

Pre-Camp

• GenCyber Online Pre-Camp – TBD (two 6-hour virtual, late June and early July)

Post Camp

• GenCyber Post-Camp Follow-up – TBD (three 6-hour virtual)