Cyber Security program instructors from across a three-state region are preparing to train a new generation of computer network security technicians as they themselves become students for a day on the campus of Central Technology Center in Drumright.
Clint Webb, Network Security and Administration instructor for Central Tech, is the Master Instructor for regional Cyber Security initiative sponsored by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant. Webb has been designed to train instructors at other CareerTech technology centers as well as community colleges from Oklahoma , Kansas and Texas.
Recent participants in Webb's class for trainers included instructors from Central Tech, Canadian Valley Technology Center , Richland College in Dallas , and a community college in Kansas.
Instructors for new Cyber Security programs in the tri-state region will spend several weeks on the Central Tech campus this year with Webb and two instructors from the Oklahoma Department of CareerTech to learn the curriculum for Cyber Security. Each will in turn be training students on their home campuses beginning this fall.
The one-week sessions for trainers, on the Central Tech campus, will Include all of the Cyber Security curriculum and the National Security Agency certifications available to the students in programs offered at the technology centers and colleges.
Oklahoma has been designated by the NSF as a regional center for Cyber Security Education. Central Tech and Francis Tuttle Technology Center in Oklahoma City have been given a grant to train the trainers for participating institutions across the region to expand the availability of Cyber Security Programs. |
