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2012 High School Summer Program

High School Summer Program 2012

This past July, ISTS offered a summer workshop for high school students exploring current interdisciplinary research in cyber security and privacy. Led by Professor Michael Locasto from the computer science department at the University of Calgary, the program was based on a scaled down version of ISTS' intensive two-week Secure Information Systems Mentoring and Training (SISMAT) program for undergraduates that was funded by the National Science Foundation.  The program focused on issues of security such as: cryptography, digital forensics, privacy, and security awareness.

 

Outreach

At the end of the program, the participating high school students were asked to complete an outreach project of their own design to spread the word about cyber security.

Emma Saucier from Windsor High School in Vermont

Emma's class was studying the book Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow.  She created a poster for the class explaining the meaning of the cyber security terms found in the book. Stated Emma, "Overall it made the book a lot more interesting to understand what was going on."

Gailin Pease from Windsor High School in Vermont

Gailin wrote an editorial article for the Burlington Free Press regarding the need for more computer science instruction in Vermont high schools. The article also appeared in shorter form as a letter to the editor of the Valley News.

Kolton Sumner from Mascoma Valley Regional High School in New Hampshire

Kolton taught his school about network security through a series of "You've Been Hacked" teaser flyers which led students to an informative poster.

Joe Wiener from Milburn High School in New Jersey

Joe designed a comprehensive brochure about cybersecurity to distribute in his school and will be teaching cryptology to computer science classes later in the school year.

Conner Marlar from Hartford High School in Vermont

Conner gave a Power Point presentation at his school on hacking awareness and offered to help educate students and staff.

Chi Zhang and Elisabeth Pillsbury from Hanover High School in New Hampshire

Chi and Elisabeth spread the word about creating secure passwords through an article in their school newspaper.

Alexey Shablygin and Daniel Plyukhin from Bedford High School in New Hampshire

Alexey and Daniel are developing a mobile app (iOS and Android platforms) for their school that will help to improve the school experience for both teachers and students. They are planning to give a presentation to the school to introduce the app, including information on user agreements and privacy.  

In addition, Alexey is working with Dartmouth Research Assistant Professor Sergey Bratus on a penetration test to determine how a cyber attack would affect a connection between two machines using VPN. 

Pat Dyroff from Hanover High School in New Hampshire

Pat has been working with Dartmouth Research Assistant Professor Sergey Bratus on various projects in computer security and decided to spend his week-long March Intensive with Dr. Bratus, researching and learning about the popular XSS technique of web hacking. Pat gave a presentation at his school about his research and wrote a technical paper.