Gencyber Camp

Norwich GenCyber Camps (Grades 10-12)

Summer 2025 • Free for all participants • Apply Now!

GenCyber Summer Camp
Location: In Person
Dates: June 22 to 27, 2025

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Application Deadline: April 7, 2025

GenCyber@NU - for the Cyber Securious!
This Program, for those new and old to Cybersecurity, features:

• Introduction to Cyber: Learn about information security and cyber forensics through lectures, labs and from guest speakers.
• Hands-On Exercises: Camp counselors and faculty will reveal the inner workings of computers, networks, security and forensics in our “War Room.”
• Hardware Activities: Build a mini-computer and turn it into a digital forensic workstation!
• Guest Speakers: Experts will present “hot topics” in cyber and facilitate a Q&A with campers about life as a cyber specialist.
• Competitive Exercises: Wrap up your camp experience with surprise cyber forensic challenges. Prizes will be awarded to the winners.
• GenCyber participants will be provided with the hardware and software to build a mini computer, which they’ll keep at the end of the program!

Who can apply? Students who are rising high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Why here? Norwich University is a Center of Digital Forensics Academic Excellence designated by the Department of Defense and a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity designated by the National Security Agency.

Free for all participants! GenCyber is funded by a grant from the National Security Agency and National Science Foundation. Tuition, room and board, field trips, and other fees are at no cost to participants. Participants will be required to cover transportation fees.

Questions? Email cybercamps@norwich.edu
You can expect a decision on your application around April 30th. Please be sure to check your email.

MEET YOUR PROGRAM STAFF

Huw Read, Ph.D., GenCyber Program Director - Huw Read began his academic career in 2004 at the University of South Wales (United Kingdom) and has taught a number of specialist courses in digital forensics and cybersecurity. For more than 10 years, he has worked alongside industry and government on a number of cyber-related projects, partnering with diverse teams to design solutions to complex security problems. He has over 20 peer-reviewed publications in Cyber. Several publications have been jointly authored with undergraduate students, helping to better arm them for future cyber-related challenges.

Matthew Bovee, Ph.D., Lead Instructor - Matthew Bovee joined the faculty in the Department of Computer Science in the School of Business & Management at Norwich University in 2010. He holds a B.S. from Arizona State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Dr. Bovee has 19 years of teaching experience in Cyber, IS, and Business.

Brucie Donahue, M.Ed., K-12 Pedagogical Expert - Brucie Donahue holds a BS in Secondary Education, an MS in Education in Instructional Technology and is a 33-year veteran of the Vermont public school sector including 24 years in local Northfield schools. She is certified to teach grades K-12 in educational technology. She is an executive board member of Vermont Information Technology Association for the Advancement of Learning [5], Intel teach to the future teacher. She has experience as the K-12 expert in two prior GenCyber camps.

Michael Battig, Ph.D., Pedagogical Instructor - Michael Battig serves as the newly appointed director of the School of Cybersecurity, Data Science and Computing at Norwich University. He comes with an extensive background that includes eight years of software development work in a business setting, grant writing in his field, and nearly 30 years of undergraduate teaching. From 2007 to 2009, he developed a budding computer science department at the American University of Afghanistan. This undertaking involved creating a sustainable curriculum for students, teaching during one summer with boots on the ground in Kabul for students who hailed from Afghanistan and neighboring countries and recruiting faculty worldwide who were committed to moving the department forward.

Specialist Instructor - Dr. Jonathan Adkins will introduce the fundamentals of ethical hacking in hands-on exercises that demonstrate some of the techniques used at each phase of a network attack. Some popular tools will be used within the Kali Linux framework to familiarize students with information gathering, scanning and enumeration, vulnerability assessment, password cracking, exploitation, and post-exploitation. Dr. Adkins holds a PhD in Information Assurance and an MS in Digital Forensics. He has also received training at SANS Institute in Hacker Tools and Techniques as well as in Advanced Pentesting and Exploit Writing.

Specialist Instructor - Prior Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Vermont, Mr. Kris Rowley will introduce Information Assurance, develop deep-dive with tabletop exercises. He specializes in cyber-law and cybercrime, information assurance management, and management information systems.

Specialist Instructor  -Ms. Kristin Hayes is a lecturer in Cybersecurity at Norwich. She brings professional experience as a former information security analyst with the State of Vermont, and will lead teachers in lessons on cyber compliance, security planning and security assessments.

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CENTER FOR CYBERSECURITY AND FORENSICS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH 

With specialist learning environments for the Computer Security & Information Assurance program, the center fosters research and offers outreach activities aimed at developing the cybersecurity professionals in demand in the information economy.