{"id":189021,"date":"2026-02-19T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/howard-community-college-awarded-550k-for-cybersecurity-entrepreneurship\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:50:13","slug":"howard-community-college-awarded-550k-for-cybersecurity-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/howard-community-college-awarded-550k-for-cybersecurity-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Community College Awarded $550K for Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/howardcommunitycollege.substack.com\/p\/howard-community-college-awarded-dea\">Howard Community College Awarded $550K for Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/howardcommunitycollege.substack.com\/p\/howard-community-college-awarded-dea\">https:\/\/howardcommunitycollege.substack.com\/p\/howard-community-college-awarded-dea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-19 20:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"howardcommunitycollege.substack.com\">howardcommunitycollege.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. Howard Community College (HCC) has been selected for two state grant awards that position the college as a regional leader in innovation, entrepreneurship, and cybersecurity workforce development. The awards \u2014 from TEDCO\u2019s inaugural Baltimore Innovation Initiative (BII) and the Moore-Miller Administration\u2019s Cyber Maryland Program \u2014 underscore HCC\u2019s expanding role as an engine of economic mobility and technology access in Howard County and Central Maryland.HCC is the only community college among 13 institutions selected for TEDCO\u2019s BII Pilot Program, receiving $50,000 through the Center for Entrepreneurial and Business Excellence (CEBE) to strengthen the region\u2019s entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. Maryland Governor Wes Moore also named HCC one of three statewide awardees for the Cyber Maryland Program&#8217;s new Cyber and AI Clinic initiative, awarding $500,000 to expand a successful cyber clinic model HCC developed in partnership with Cyber Ready Clinic to Frederick Community College and Carroll Community College \u2014 that delivers low-cost or free cybersecurity services to nonprofits across the state.\u201cThese two awards affirm what our students and faculty demonstrate every day \u2014 that community colleges are engines of entrepreneurship, economic mobility, and community transformation,\u201d said HCC President Daria J. Willis. \u201cWe are proud to be among Maryland\u2019s leading colleges and universities in collaboration with respected cybersecurity organizations in building prosperity through innovation.\u201dThe TEDCO BII grant supports CEBE\u2019s initiative, \u201cBuilding an Ecosystem for Innovation, Training &#038; Community Impact,\u201d led by Co-Director Helen Rose. The Center offers degree and certificate programs, business coaching, and signature events, including the annual Rocket Pitch Entrepreneurial Celebration. HCC joins Johns Hopkins University and Loyola University Maryland in sharing $647,000 in total BII funding.The Cyber Maryland Clinic award builds on HCC\u2019s established track record in cybersecurity access, including a $200,000 NIST RAMPS grant awarded in 2024 to establish the original Howard County clinic. The tri-college coalition with Frederick and Carroll expands that model statewide, placing current and prospective cybersecurity professionals in supervised, hands-on training environments delivering real services to under-resourced community institutions in health, youth services, disability services, and workforce development. HCC\u2019s clinic is expected to train at least 200 cyber professionals while protecting dozens of client organizations across the state.\u201cThis funding reflects how HCC is at the intersection of access, innovation, and workforce readiness \u2014 serving students, small businesses, and community organizations across the Baltimore-Washington corridor,\u201d said Rose.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Community College Awarded $550K for Cybersecurity, Entrepreneurship https:\/\/howardcommunitycollege.substack.com\/p\/howard-community-college-awarded-dea Publish Date: 2026-02-19 20:45:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":189022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!T8jy!,w_1200,h_675,c_fill,f_jpg,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep,g_auto\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feffbbc5d-7e25-4d8f-bb6e-981004e0fc0e_1600x700.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,24],"class_list":["post-189021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189023,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189021\/revisions\/189023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}