A national conference entitled Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development workshop series was planned for March in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, and cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working together with NACCE, the conference has been reimagined as a series of four half-day webinars that will take place through the month of June. The sessions include much of the original content planned for our in-person event in Williamsburg, and brings in additional areas of focus. 

Register today for the Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development four-part webinar series to:

• hear best practices for effective UAS courses/programs of study
• discuss topics relevant to creating and sustaining a drone workforce pipeline
• learn about key UAS educational offerings and industry initiatives
• be among the first to learn about emerging trends in the industry

Registration is $59 per webinar or $200 for the entire series.

Drone industry partners and UAS end-users will spotlight the growing demand for various applications, from package delivery to search and rescue, precision agriculture, real estate, transportation, infrastructure inspection, and many others. 

Description: The first course in the CCNA curriculum introduces the architectures, models, protocols, and networking elements that connect users, devices, applications and data through the internet and across modern computer networks – including IP addressing and Ethernet fundamentals. By the end of the course, students can build simple local area networks (LANs) that integrate IP addressing schemes, foundational network security, and perform basic configurations for routers and switches.

Instructors with prior NetAcad Cisco 1 experience are not required to take this class again, unless they want to see what the new format looks like.

Prerequisite: Working knowledge of computers.

In partnership with the National Geospatial Technology Center of Excellence, Jefferson Community and Technical College-Southwest Campus will host the 13th annual GeoEd `20 Conference.

For the first time in history, GeoEd will be offered as a virtual conference!

A national conference entitled Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development workshop series was planned for March in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, and cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working together with NACCE, the conference has been reimagined as a series of four half-day webinars that will take place through the month of June. The sessions include much of the original content planned for our in-person event in Williamsburg, and brings in additional areas of focus. 

Register today for the Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development four-part webinar series to:

• hear best practices for effective UAS courses/programs of study
• discuss topics relevant to creating and sustaining a drone workforce pipeline
• learn about key UAS educational offerings and industry initiatives
• be among the first to learn about emerging trends in the industry

Registration is $59 per webinar or $200 for the entire series.

Drone industry partners and UAS end-users will spotlight the growing demand for various applications, from package delivery to search and rescue, precision agriculture, real estate, transportation, infrastructure inspection, and many others.

In this webcast, Donna Milgram will show you how two schools boosted female (and male) enrollments in Cybersecurity and IT programs after attending a WomenTech Educators Training, and how you can apply these techniques to boost (and retain) similar enrollments in your programs:

• Fayetteville Technical Community College doubled female enrollment in their Cybersecurity program in only 5 months - from 12 to 22 women. Male enrollment also increased from 58 to 101
• Broward College increased female enrollment in their IT & Computer Science Department (including Cybersecurity) - by 77 women in a year’s time. Male enrollment also increased from 751 to 1009

Join National Cybersecurity Student Association and Kristin Carlson, FocalPoint Business & Executive Coach for Keys to Sustain & Thrive in Your Career webcast. Kristin will discuss what makes successful people successful. How can you differentiate yourself? How can you increase your value to an organization and/or your own business? She will cover key mindset and strategies to be the most productive and effective in your career.

Description: The second course in the CCNA curriculum focuses on switching technologies and router operations that support small-to-medium business networks and includes wireless local area networks (WLANs) and security concepts. Students learn key switching and routing concepts. They can perform basic network configuration and troubleshooting, identify and mitigate LAN security threats, and configure and secure a basic WLAN.

This class will cover some new topics that were not part of the previous CCNA curriculum, so it is recommended even for those people that have prior NetAcad experience.

Prerequisite: Concepts covered in CCNA 1 classes or prior networking experience.

Instructors: Mukila Maitha, Harper College & Rich Schultz, GeoTech Center Associate Director

Participants at this workshop gain hands on experience on teaching with ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, UAVs (drones), and Earth Imagery. Attendees will be introduced to open curriculum development resources (lessons and data) from national and international repositories. Workshop participants will develop an exercise or lesson for use in one of their classes.

This workshop will focus on developing and integrating practical applications of Drone and Geospatial Technology use into curriculum. Ongoing applied research projects will provide data and examples of how drones and geospatial technology can be used to enhance STEM education into subject areas. Various software will be utilized in the processing of digital imagery. 

A national conference entitled Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development workshop series was planned for March in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, and cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working together with NACCE, the conference has been reimagined as a series of four half-day webinars that will take place through the month of June. The sessions include much of the original content planned for our in-person event in Williamsburg, and brings in additional areas of focus. 

Register today for the Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development four-part webinar series to:

• hear best practices for effective UAS courses/programs of study
• discuss topics relevant to creating and sustaining a drone workforce pipeline
• learn about key UAS educational offerings and industry initiatives
• be among the first to learn about emerging trends in the industry

Registration is $59 per webinar or $200 for the entire series.

Drone industry partners and UAS end-users will spotlight the growing demand for various applications, from package delivery to search and rescue, precision agriculture, real estate, transportation, infrastructure inspection, and many others.

Description: This session will provide an overview of the tools and techniques commonly used for detecting threats to an enterprise infrastructure. Implement strategies for documenting and reporting detected events based on industry standard compliance frameworks. We will use the Security Onion distribution. Tools include Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK/Elastic Stack), Wazuh, Snort, Zeek, Wireshark, and TCP Dump. On the final day we will be doing a capture the FLAG event in the Cyber range.

Prerequisite: Basic understanding of Linux operating system.

Description: The third course in the CCNAv7 curriculum describes the architectures and considerations related to designing, securing, operating, and troubleshooting enterprise networks. This course covers wide area network (WAN) technologies and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms used for secure remote access. ENSA also introduces software-defined networking, virtualization, and automation concepts that support the digitalization of networks. Students gain skills to configure and troubleshoot enterprise networks, and learn to identify and protect against cybersecurity threats. They are introduced to network management tools and learn key concepts of software-defined networking, including controller-based architectures and how application programming interfaces (APIs) enable network automation.

This class will cover some new topics that were not part of the previous CCNA curriculum, so it is recommended even for those people that have prior NetAcad experience.

Prerequisite: Concepts covered in CCNA 2 classes or prior networking experience.

A national conference entitled Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development workshop series was planned for March in Colonial Williamsburg, VA, and cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Working together with NACCE, the conference has been reimagined as a series of four half-day webinars that will take place through the month of June. The sessions include much of the original content planned for our in-person event in Williamsburg, and brings in additional areas of focus. 

Register today for the Preparing the Drone Workforce professional development four-part webinar series to:

• hear best practices for effective UAS courses/programs of study
• discuss topics relevant to creating and sustaining a drone workforce pipeline
• learn about key UAS educational offerings and industry initiatives
• be among the first to learn about emerging trends in the industry

Registration is $59 per webinar or $200 for the entire series.

Drone industry partners and UAS end-users will spotlight the growing demand for various applications, from package delivery to search and rescue, precision agriculture, real estate, transportation, infrastructure inspection, and many others.