Commonwealth Cyber Initiative

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CCI is proud to announce another exciting Project-Based Learning Program with our friends at CACI International Inc 🚀

In this program, students will be immersed in real-world cybersecurity issues and gain mentored work experience while earning $25 an hour. Tasks will include generating, documenting, and implementing a project plan to create and build a repository of approximately 30 challenges to be used for CACI CTF employee and outreach events.

🗓️ Recruitment opens April 7 and closes on April 30, 2025.

🔍 Check out the link below to learn more about eligibility requirements, project details, compensation, and more!

🔗 https://cyberinitiative.org/talent-development/project-based-learning-program/2025-work-at-caci-while-you-study.html

As we near the end of the year, we’d like to take a moment to thank all of our collaborators, researchers, students, staff, and more who made this year such a great success. 👏

We wish you all a joyful holiday season and look forward to making even greater strides together in 2025! 🎉

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This weekend marks the opening of CyberArts 2024, a CCI-funded art exhibit exploring cybersecurity through imagery, sound, performance, space, and time.
Join us at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Va to discover how art can highlight the complexities of our digital world.

The exhibit is open from Oct 5, 2024 to Jan 19, 2025. See you there! 🎨💻

To learn more, visit: https://cyberinitiative.org/events-programs/2024/cyber-arts-exhibit-2024.html

⏰ It's almost that time of year again... the CCI 2024 Internship and Job Fair is 2 weeks away!

💻 Join us virtually on September 17th as we connect students like you with internship and job opportunities with employers throughout the state of Virginia.

🤝 We've partnered with Handshake, an experienced provider of virtual fairs, to help our students make these connections. After registering, students can create a profile and upload their résumés to connect with recruiters and program leaders through one-on-one live messaging or video calls.

Don't miss out on this great cyber career opportunity! Learn more ➡️

CCI Internship & Job Fair 2024 Students can visit employers’ virtual booths. After registering, students can create a profile and upload their résumés to connect with recruiters and program leaders through one-on-one live messaging or video calls.

📑 Two Virginia Tech researchers, Tabitha L. James and Viswanath Venkatesh, will study the influence that judgmental artificial intelligence, or “judgy AI”, has on minorities, the underprivileged, and other vulnerable populations.

👏 This research proposal is one of 11 projects funded by CCI as part of our 2024 Addressing Inclusion and Accessibility in Cybersecurity program.

Read the story ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/judgyai

Learn more about all 11 funded projects ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/cci-inclusion

Virginia Tech researchers to investigate impact of judgmental AI on vulnerable groups Two researchers from the Pamplin College of Business will study the impact on vulnerable populations through a new inclusive cybersecurity program funded by the Southwest Virginia node of the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative.