Well it’s another summer in my retirement and I seem to be teaching classes every time I turn around.
In addition to DOE workforce development internship, I was offered the chance to share teaching a week-long summer camp with Thomas Scott for high school students at the Ruth Patrick science Center at the University of South Carolina Aiken.
The Ruth Patrick Center is a hidden gem in Aiken. here’s more about their camps If you’ve never been to the planetarium or seen telescope you are missing something great. Dr. Gary Senn is an unbelievably creative and dedicated educator.
https://www.usca.edu/rpsec/departments/student-programs/summer-programs/discovery-camps/
Over the five six-hour classes, we covered a wide range of IT and cybersecurity topics. We watched YouTube videos on how scammers work, learned the risk management framework from CSF 2.0, conducted a phishing exercise on their friends (and they all failed), learned binary and ASCII, and then scratched the surface on one of my favorite topics, cryptography.
We started with a secret decoder ring, watched the video on the Enigma and then built our own enigma simulators from 3D printed parts that my son graciously provided to the class.
