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Citadel Cyber Village 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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GenCyber Summer Camps 2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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GenCyber 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Citadel welcomed 20 boys and 20 girls to campus for the GenCyber 2023 Summer Camps in June of this year. During their week of camp, rising 8th-12th grade students learned all about Cybersecurity concepts such as networking security,  cyber ethics, cryptography, drone coding, and the Cyber Workforce. It was a fantastic two weeks, and we look forward to GenCyber 2024! Details for registration will be available soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Registration is available for GenCyber 2024 summer camps! For additional information regarding this cost-free cyber camp for rising 8th-12th graders, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recent Department Events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Citadel CCS Department was thrilled to celebrate the research efforts of our students along with our award winners at the 2024 Citadel Academy of Science and Mathematics Awards Banquet over the weekend!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Congratulations to the 2024 CASM Cyber and Computer Science Outstanding Students:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Freshman: Cadet Jonah Dalton
Outstanding Sophomore: Cadet Kirin Chaplin
Outstanding Junior: Cadet Tobias Wood
Outstanding Senior: Cadet Dalton Hazelwood
Outstanding Graduate Student: Mr. Nicholas Kraftor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WiCyS (Women in Cybersecurity)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The WiCyS (Women in Cybersecurity) Citadel Chapter did a fantastic job hosting an important panel discussion titled: “Interdisciplinary: How Can Cyber Affect Your Future?” on March 25th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Special Thank You to the panel moderator, Cadet Elisabeth Southern (President, WiCyS Citadel Chapter), and our panelists, Dr. Aleksandra Scalco, Dr. Shadi Sadeghpour, Dr. Jordana Navarro, Dr. Eva Singleton, and Prof. Cynthia Bolt!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Summer and Competition Events<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SGAUS 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Citadel Cyber Team placed 2nd<\/sup> (out of 29 teams!) at the State Guard Association of US (SGAUS) Cyber Exercise that was held in November 2023. This was the first time SGAUS invited students from Senior Military Colleges to participate. The following students represented The Citadel at SGAUS: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo L-R) Cadet Slateon Frederick, Cadet Kirin Chaplin, Cadet Dalton Hazelwood, Cadet Jacob Wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RING (Regions Investing in the Next Generation) Teacher Cyber Camp (hosted by Citadel DoD Cyber Institute) <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Citadel DoD Cyber Institute partnered with the RING Program at University of Alabama Huntsville to provide 20 teachers from across the state of South Carolina an opportunity to develop their cyber skillset in order to utilize the curriculum taught by the RING Program in their own classrooms. This training allows the teachers to learn cyber in a hands-on classroom and gives them the tools necessary to teach their students cyber-based lessons. This camp was also aligned with South Carolina Computer Science Professional Development week (CSPD).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about RING, please visit:<\/em> K-12 Pathway Program: RING | CAE Community<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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National Guard Cyber Training (hosted by Citadel DoD Cyber Institute)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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CDCI was proud to host approximately 30 National Guard Soldiers to join our team for Cybersecurity training to become certified in Security+ and Network+. These certifications will help the Soldiers advance in their cyber knowledge and develop in their careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HackWarz@PCDC \/ Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We are celebrating The Citadel CCS HackWarz Team (Cadets Slateon Frederick , J. Tobias Wood and Dalton Hazelwood) who took home the FIRST PLACE title at HackWarz@PCDC over the weekend of April 15, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are proud of all of our CCS Cadets that competed at PCDC (Palmetto Cyber Defense Competition) 2023! The Citadel team did a fantastic job representing us throughout the contest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dept. of Cyber and Computer Sciences Annual Banquet 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Citadel Department of Cyber and Computer Sciences recently celebrated our students many phenomenal 2022-2023 achievements during the CCS annual banquet in the Regimental Commanders’ Riverview Room. We proudly recognize all of the distinguished award winners, NSA\/CISA CAE-CD Certificate Awardees and other student accomplishments throughout the academic year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Freshman Awardees:<\/strong>
Cadets Kirin Chaplin, Noah Klepper, Robert Powell and Francisco Rodriguez-Vara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Sophomore Awardees:<\/strong>
Cadets Ryan Craig and J. Tobias Wood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Junior Awardees:<\/strong>
Cadets Dalton Hazelwood and Slateon Frederick<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John I. Moore Outstanding Senior Student Awardees:<\/strong>
Cadets Nathanael Ling and Jackson All<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Achievement Awardee:<\/strong>
Cadet Chotipat Metreethummaporn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Leadership Awardee:<\/strong>
Benjamin Race<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outstanding Graduate Student Awardee:<\/strong>
Maria Marquez-Garcia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic Excellence Day 2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to the CCS award winners and participants for Academic Excellence Day 2023!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provost\u2019s Award-\u200b 1st Place- Science and Math<\/strong>
Title: Climate Event Detection in Twitter Data
Authors: Cadets Hannah Collee, Addy Liu, Benjamin Prins
Advisor: Dr. Deepti Joshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graduate Student Award<\/strong>
Title: Masquerading IoT devices
Author: Ms. Maria Marquez-Garcia
Advisors: Dr. Shankar Banik, Dr. Deepti Joshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sigma Xi Award- 2nd Place<\/strong>
Title: Context Aware Access Control for IoT Networks
Authors: Cadets Slateon Frederick, George Honiotes
Advisors: Dr. Shankar Banik, Dr. William Johnson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: Discovering Influencing Factors for Social Unrest using Clustering
Author: Cadet Dalton Hazelwood\u200b
Advisor: Dr. Deepti Joshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: Arabic Text Classification using Weak Supervision
Author: Cadet J. Tobias Wood
Advisor: Dr. Deepti Joshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: Creating User Email DNA to Detect Spear Phishing Attacks
Authors: Cadets Sharize Roper, Brian Mutua, Sebastian Klincewicz
Advisors: Dr. Deepti Joshi, Dr. Shankar Banik<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: The Application of Graphene in the Energy Industry
Author: Cadets Kirin Chaplin (CCS Student), Victoria Snook, and Meredith Reed with *The Citadel Honors Program
Advisor: Dr. Deidre Ragan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Title: Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence…
Author: Mr. Nathaniel Ballard
Advisor: Dr. Deepti Joshi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CyRF@C Cybersecurity Research Forum @ The Citadel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

CDCI (Citadel DoD Cyber Institute) hosted cadets, students and faculty from each of the six senior military college cyber institutes \u2014 The Citadel, Norwich University, Virginia Tech, University of North Georgia, Texas A&M and Virginia Military Institute \u2013 on April 3 and 4. The purpose of the Cybersecurity Research Forum, or CyRF@C, was to provide undergraduates from each senior military college with a forum to present their cybersecurity-based research in several categories including malware and forensics, data analysis and threatcasting, cryptography, cyber warfare and Internet of Things security.

The conference was funded by the National Security Agency under NCAE-C, or the National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, and the Senior Military College Cyber Grant program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Speakers for Day One<\/h5>\n\n\n\n