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Pitt CyberCamp fosters interest in growing cybersecurity field<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-23 10:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\tKhadija Hassan knows that with great power comes great responsibility with the skills she\u2019s learning at the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s CyberCamp.
\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI\u2019m interested in threat hunting,\u201d said Hassan, a rising senior at Keystone Oaks High School. \u201cYou run different tasks to see if someone is trying to attack you. You check for people and investigate their digital footprint.\u201d
\n\t\t\t\tHassan, 17, of Castle Shannon, is one of 180 campers at this week\u2019s Air Force Association CyberCamp, now in its 10th year. It\u2019s held in Oakland and, this year for the first time, at Pitt\u2019s Greensburg campus.
\n\t\t\t\tThe free, weeklong camp teaches cybersecurity principles, ethics, skills and future career opportunities.
\n\t\t\t\tSince its inception, more than 1,400 students have completed the camp.
\n\t\t\t\t\u201cPittsburgh is doing a good job of recognizing that cybersecurity is a need,\u201d said Beth Schwanke, executive director of Pitt\u2019s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security. \u201cWe also have education and training opportunities to fill it.\u201d
\n\t\t\t\tSchwanke said that, while demand for the camp has remained consistently high, the students\u2019 skill levels in technology and cybersecurity have increased. She attributes that to more area high schools offering cybersecurity programming.
\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWhen we started 10 years ago, there wasn\u2019t much cybersecurity being offered in schools,\u201d Schwanke said. \u201cThe really exciting thing is that there are schools now teaching cybersecurity, and those kids are coming to camp and still learning new things.\u201d
\n\t\t\t\tA June study from Cyber.org found that 41% of educators nationwide reported their students receive cybersecurity education \u2014 slightly lower than it was in 2020. Meanwhile, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports more than 572,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs.
\n\t\t\t\t\u201cThere\u2019s a ton of open cybersecurity jobs in the United States and that\u2019s changing due to artificial intelligence,\u201d Schwanke said. \u201cWhat the market looks like is undergoing a shift, but there\u2019s constantly unfilled jobs.\u201d
\n\t\t\t\tPitt uses curriculum from CyberPatriot, a national youth cyber education program, to drive the week\u2019s lessons. Camp instructors tailor the lessons to fit campers\u2019 needs \u2014 and keep up with advancements in technology and artificial intelligence.
\n\t\t\t\tKate Ulreich, engagement leader at Pitt Digital, the university\u2019s information technology department, said camp lessons don\u2019t rely heavily on artificial intelligence. Rather, instructors focus on getting students to understand the logic and reasoning behind the computer systems.
\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIt\u2019s the reason behind why something works, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to teach them,\u201d Ulerich said.
\n\t\t\t\tTeachers also emphasize the ethics behind cybersecurity.
\n\t\t\t\t\u201cWe emphasize we teach skills, mostly defensive skills, but they could be used for bad,\u201d said Michael Caglia, camp instructor and a computer science teacher at Westmoreland County Community College. \u201cWe do explain about using the \u2018superpowers\u2019 for good.\u201d
\n\t\t\t\tThe camp attracts students from all levels, and it has a reach beyond Greater Pittsburgh. Krish Putrevu, 12, of Loudoun County, Va., looked forward to an end-of-camp competition where students have to fend off a cyber attack.
\n\t\t\t\tPutrevu said he was interested in learning about \u201cvirtual machines,\u201d software emulating a physical computer system that allows security teams to test threats without risking the primary computer.
\n\t\t\t\tPutrevu described it as a \u201ccomputer system inside a computer system.\u201d
\n\t\t\t\tAbygail Farmer, a rising sophomore at St. Joseph\u2019s High School in Harrison, said she\u2019s interested in a future career in cybersecurity or computer science.
\n\t\t\t\t\u201cI like the codes, and how different components work together to make one big machine to do one big job,\u201d said Farmer, 15. <\/p>\n

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