Westview TitanTurtles Cybersecurity Club

Portland, Oregon

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Summer CyberCamp 2024

We are collaborating with Westview High School to provide AFA CyberPatriot CyberCamps during the summer time.


Apply:

Register for 2024 Summer CyberCamp.

It is 100% refundable if you decided to withdraw before July 1st, 2024. After July 1st, no refund will be given.


Schedule:

Standard Camp: July 29 to August 2, 2024
Advanced Camp: August 5 to August 9, 2024

Time: 9am to 3pm (PDT)
Lunch break (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thur): 11:30am to 12:15pm (PDT)
Lunch break (Friday): 12:30pm to 1:15pm (PDT)


Location:

Online: Zoom Meeting


Cost for the camp:

Donation to Master Builders Club:
Standard Camp: $350 by April 30th ($450 starting May 1st)
Advanced Camp: $450 by April 30th ($600 starting May 1st)
Both Camps: $750 by April 30th ($1,000 starting May 1st)

Online VMs access: Extra $50 per week (limited supply) (It is recommended to run VMs on your own computer. Online VMs are only for those who really could not get a computer to run the VMs locally.)


Hardware requirement:

Intel computers with internet connection, and at least 16GB of memory (RAM) and 100GB free SSD harddrive space. AMD computers should work fine.

(Costco has qualified laptop at $700 and up. Amazon has qualified renewed laptop at around $300, but YMMV.)

However, Apple M series computer will not work.


Curriculum:

Standard Camp:

Standard camps are designed to teach beginner students the basics of cybersecurity. No prior cybersecurity knowledge is required for participants. The following is an outline of the curriculum for the Standard CyberCamp.

Windows 10 Module – Security Policies, Account Management, File Protections, Auditing & Monitoring.

Ubuntu 18 Module – Terminology & Concepts, Basic User Interface Security, Basic Command Line, Intermediate Security

Monday: Introduction to the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition, introduction to cybersecurity & careers, cyber ethics, online safety, how computers work, virtual machines, and cyber threats.

Tuesday: Cybersecurity principles, basic Windows security policies and tools, account management, windows file protections, and auditing and monitoring. Students will follow along and work with the Windows 10 demonstration image.

Wednesday: Introduction to Linux, Ubuntu 18 terminology and concepts, basic GUI security, and intro to CLI. Students will follow along and work with the Ubuntu 18 demonstration image.

Thursday: Basic command line security and intermediate Ubuntu security. Students will follow along and work with the Ubuntu 18 demonstration image.

Friday: CyberPatriot competition day. Students will compete against their fellow campers on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 competition images.

Advanced Camp:

The Advanced Camp curriculum is designed to allow instructors to pick and choose which areas of interests their students might best learn from. There is more information made available than will fit in a four-hour camp day – instructors have the option to pick the topics which are best suited for their session. Friday must be reserved for the CyberPatriot competition.

Windows 10 Module – Windows Graphical Utilities, Windows Command Line, optional Sysinternals Suite.

Ubuntu 18 Module – Init Systems, Advanced Command Line, Processes and Scheduled Tasks, optional Security Policies and PAM, optional Networking.

Cisco NetAcad – Networking Modules 1-3.

Monday: Cyber Ethics Module, Windows 10 Module

Tuesday: Windows 10 Module, Ubuntu 18

Wednesday: Ubuntu 18 Module

Thursday: Cisco Networking

Friday: CyberPatriot competition day. Teams of students compete against each other on advanced Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18 images.


Contact us:

Coach: Xinle Yang
Email: titanturtlesteam@gmail.com


For those who already registered, we will send out emails about how to download images and how to prepare for the camps when the camp time approaches.