SAN BERNARDINO >> “One day, they’re flying (drones). The next session, they hack them out of the sky,” Cal State San Bernardino professor Vinny Netsler said. “The third session, we show them how to secure it.”
Welcome to Girl Scout summer camp.
The free GenCyber Day Camp has brought 252 girls from San Bernardino and Riverside counties to campus, where they’re spending five days doing definitely unconventional camp activities, all based around cybersecurity — an area of strength for Cal State San Bernardino — and computers. It’s a collaboration between the university, the business community, the Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Counciland the National Security Agency.
A room full of girls in matching T-shirts were building their own versions of the classic Pong videogame on tiny Raspberry Pi computers the size of an adult fist.
“You can make the ball smaller,” said Alexis Mena, 12, of Riverside, leaning over to her neighbor.
When camp ends, the girls will be taking home their Raspberry Pi units, along with a keyboard, mouse, and a cable to connect their computers to a television set if they don’t have a monitor at home.
“How?” asked her neighbor, Analyse Houston, 10, of Highland. For the full article click here
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