We will be hosting a two week Cyber-Security  & Coding Professional Development during the weeks of July 20 - 24, 2015 and July 27th - 31st, 2015 for middle and high school teachers.

Overview:
Week 1:  July 20 - 24, 2015
20 hours of professional development focused on introducing teachers to CyberFirst Principles, free Programming tools, and curriculum for a 20 hour cyber-security and coding summer camp/after-school program.

Week 2:  July 27th - 31st
Co-teach a 1 week summer camp with the expert CS teachers allowing them to put into practice what they’ve just learned. Target Camp Audience: Rising 7th-12th Grade Students with little to no Computer Science Background.

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Non-programming middle & high school teachers are welcomed
We welcome teachers of all subject backgrounds with an interest in learning about cyber-security and programming. No prior programming experience required.

Experienced middle and high school teachers are welcomed
We also welcome teachers with prior programming experience. We will be teaching camp students to program in Python. If you already have experience programming in python we will have more advanced programming and cyber-security activities to further develop your skills.

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Preference will be given to teachers that can participate in both weeks of the program and to those who are interested in using materials in their classroom, after-school club, or camps.

Accepted teachers will be paid a stipend of $1200 per week. If you are not local to the Gainesville, FL area, a portion of this stipend can be used to cover housing costs.

This is a competitive application for admission into a paid Professional Development sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

You will be asked to share contact information, demographic information, prior computing experience, and why you are interest in attending this program. We will not share any of your contact information with any parties outside of the University of Florida.