Google grant allows 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock to provide free cloud-based cybersecurity labs for Arkansas students
Philip Huff (right), 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock assistant professor and research fellow at Emerging Analytics Center, leads a cybersecurity workshop for high achool teachers from around the state. Photo by Ben Krain.A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received a $10,000 Google grant that will help provide free cloud-based cybersecurity labs for junior high and high school students in Arkansas.Philip Huff, assistant professor of computer science and research associate with the Emerging Analytics Center, received $10,000 in Google Cloud Platform credits from Google鈥檚 education grants team. The credits will be used to host online cybersecurity labs in development at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.聽Funded by a three-year from the National Science Foundation, the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Emerging Analytics Center is developing a free open-source, cybersecurity curriculum for students in Arkansas with assistance from the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.鈥淕ov. Asa Hutchinson has expanded computer science education in Arkansas, and now the state wants to expand cybersecurity education as well. We want to play a central role in educating cybersecurity students and getting them ready for the workforce.鈥�The new curriculum is part of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 effort to create a pipeline for students to fill cybersecurity positions in the workforce.Set to be launched later this fall, the curriculum will provide a variety of cybersecurity labs that teachers can provide to their students at no cost. The online lab environment, known as the Cyber Gym, will be placed on Google Cloud. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students who are developing the Cyber Gym workouts include Andrew Bombberger, Chance Melby, Ryan Ronquillio, and Verdin-Pol Ga茅tan.鈥淭he main benefit of the grant is that it enables us to run the Cyber Gym for middle and high school teachers for most of the 2019-20 school year,鈥� Huff said. 鈥淲ith the $10,000, we have the ability to run 2,000 distinct classroom labs a month for six months. We are extremely grateful to Google for helping us provide these no-cost labs to students and their teachers.鈥澛�In the upper right photo, Philip Huff (left), 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock assistant professor and research fellow at Emerging Analytics Center, leads a cybersecurity workshop for high achool teachers from around the state. Photo by Ben Krain.
