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Name: Antonio Delgado
Title: Vice President of Innovation and Technology Partnerships
Institution: Miami Dade College
Project Name: Advancing Strategies in Cybersecurity Education and Career Development (ASCEND)
URL: https://www.mdc.edu/entec/grants/ascend.aspx
ATE Central: How did you become involved with ATE?
Delgado: Back in 2017, faculty and administrators wanted to develop cybersecurity degree programs at Miami Dade College (MDC). Dr. Diego Tibaquira, lead cybersecurity faculty member at MDC, and I, Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at that time, decided to apply to NSF ATE with the goal to build faculty capacity in cybersecurity, create an advisory board, and develop courses with a focus on supporting minority students. That application was awarded the NSF ATE for small projects.