Cyber Science Curriculum (9-10)

The Cyber Innovation Center, in Partnership with Louisiana Tech University and Bossier Parish Community College, are developing a foundational Cyber Science course to be piloted at Benton High School in the spring of 2011 and then expanded throughout the region in the following years.  This will be an 18-week long course, offered as an elective.  Students will not purchase a textbook but rather use a parallax boe-bot (a micro-controller) to explore the cyber world.  The course will include project-based learning modules that incorporate the following learning objectives: hardware, software, applications, cyber security, information literacy, computer literacy, cryptography, digital forensics, computer programming, animation and visual effects.

Cyber Days (K-8)

The CIC partnered with Bossier Parish Community College  and Louisiana Tech University  to offer an education outreach program that brings cyberspace concepts to K-8 graders.  Cyber Days offer “hands-on” demonstrations that use cyberspace to get students excited about technology and the world around them. Informal education initiatives can be a very powerful tool in getting students interested in science, technology, engineering and math.  It can also be an effective way to demonstrate how cyberspace also ties into the "soft" sciences or humanities.

Cyber Security Curriculum (9-12)

Air Force Research Labs developed a Cyber Security curriculum for high school students and piloted the program at Rome Catholic School in Rome, NY.  The CIC has obtained a copy of this curriculum and distributed it among its partners.  In 2008, North DeSoto High School offered the course as an elective.  In 2009, Parkway High School incorporated the Cyber Security curriculum into its computer business course. 

Dual Enrollment (9-12)

The Cyber Innovation Center is working with its partners to establish articulation agreements and dual enrollment credits so that students graduating from high school have already earned college credit and can easily transition into a 2-year degree tract or a 4-year college/university.  The Cyber Innovation Center is working with universities, community colleges and K-12 school systems across Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas.  Partnerships have also been established across Oklahoma, California, New York, South Carolina and Mississippi.