A group of 14 high school students attended a Cyber Security seminar held at Saint Vincent College in honor of National Cyber Security Awareness Month on Tuesday, October 18th.
These students were accompanied by librarian Jesse McDonnell.
The students attended four different workshops throughout the day, one of which focused on cyber bullying, one on interactive network monitoring, one on the ethics used by companies regarding technology, and one on the philosophy of law enforcement and protection against cyber attacks, according to McDonnell.
Students rotated through these four workshops throughout the day.
The day concluded with a one-hour presentation from an FBI agent who spoke about careers in the FBI, according to McDonnell.
The trip was of no cost to the Franklin Regional High School students.
“Mr. Suvak found the money for the bus and [Saint Vincent College] provided lunch,” said McDonnell. “It was a good trip.”
Seniors Camden Nagg and Silvia Bononi were two of the 14 students who went on the field trip.
Each of them got something unique out of the field trip.
“My favorite seminar was the one on cyberbullying,” said Nagg. “She gave a lot of examples of how people can get our credit card information, our parents’ credit card information, and use GPS location on our phone to find out where we are, so I thought that was pretty cool and just a different view on the world.”
Bononi enjoyed the seminar about cyber security philosophies used in law enforcement.
“My favorite seminar was the one where [a former FBI agent who is now a professor at Saint Vincent College] gave us scenarios about the world [pertaining to deontology and utilitarianism],” said Bononi. “He also talked about [the government’s] duties and morals.”
Nagg stated that the information on the field trip could help people protect themselves against future cyber security attacks.
“I felt that going on this field trip would give me an extra hand in understanding why we should pay attention to cyber security in this country.”
Note: this article was originally published in Franklin Regional High School's newspaper The Panther.
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