Dec 21, 2020 | EDSCOOP
A cybersecurity education initiative led by Arizona State University will receive a digital update next month as its Cybersecurity Education Consortium attempts to entice elementary and middle school students into pursuing careers securing IT systems.
The consortium, which partners with local schools, community colleges and cybersecurity companies to bolster the cybersecurity workforce, announced earlier this month that its curriculum would be adapted for distance learning, a recognition of the wide adoption of hybrid teaching models during the pandemic.
“Cybersecurity is an expanding field that has a growing number of unfilled positions, so we want to get kids interested in the field and moving into the pipeline of degrees and out into the workforce,” Trista Zobitz, a project coordinator with the consortium, told ASU Now.