Summer Research Camp for High School Students in 2021

Platinum Sponsors:

Cisco: https://www.cisco.com/

Gold Sponsors:

Silicon Valley Women In Engineering: https://2021.siliconvalleywie.org/

San Jose State University: https://www.sjsu.edu/

Silver Sponsors:

Intel: https://www.intel.in/content/www/in/en/homepage.html

The Select Group: https://www.selectgroup.com/

Calforina State University Dominguez Hills: https://www.csudh.edu/

Detailed Description:

When: June 14 – August 6, 2021 (8 weeks)

Targeted Students: Any high school student in the USA can apply.

Goal: Team-based research projects advised by one faculty mentor and college students.

Meeting time: 6- 9 p.m. (PST) every Monday & group research meeting with a faculty mentor.

List of Volunteering Faculty Mentors: Young Park (SJSU), Sang-Yoon Chang(UCCS), Nima Karimian (SJSU), Sara Tehranipoor (Santa Clara University), Thomas Austin (SJSU), Gokay Saldamli (SJSU), Fabio Di Troia (SJSU), Jorjeta Jetcheva (SJSU), Michael Tjebben (SJSU)

If you have a question, please contact us at svcc.conf@svcsi.org with the email title [Summer Camp]

Requirements for campers:

Time Commitment: 15 hours per week during the 8 weeks

3.0 GPA and above

Full-time high school students in the USA

Students must attend weekly meetings with their faculty mentor and report on progress

Students must attend weekly research seminars

Benefits:

A student will gain experience in cybersecurity research with hands-on work

Students will receive mentoring from experienced research faculty mentors who voluntarily provide their advice

Students will be informed about future SVCSI activities for high school students. For example, we will select cybersecurity student ambassadors who can continuously work with SVCSI after this summer.

All summer camp participants will receive free guest conference tickets for SVCC (Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference) 2021 in the Fall of 2021

All campers must attend the opening meeting on the first day of the summer camp on 6/14/2021 at 6 p.m.

The research seminars every Monday will be conducted by our faculty mentors and industry guest speakers. We will announce the seminar agenda by the end of May.

The high school students must attend the two-week tutorial session at 6-9 p.m. from June 14, 2021, to June 25, 2021, to learn programming skills from an industry expert and data science skills from a faculty member.

During this summer camp, we also encourage you to submit a research student poster with your team to SVCC (Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference) 2021. Here is the SVCC 2020 website for the last year for reference: http://svcc2020.svcsi.org/

For detailed schedule go to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pUJ7Im3HjC3NdU5zYssFVvREpJNj-NzR/view?usp=share_link

To view poster go to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/170fY8-8x-UjcZ71CWwG5-RRHhaGG4RZk/view?usp=sharing