High School Girls Learn 'Virtuous Hacking' in Computer Science Program
- Dian Schaffhauser for THE Journal July 17th, 2017
- Source: https://thejournal.com/articles/2017/07/17/high-school-girls-learn-virtuous-hacking-in-computer-science-program.aspx
Forty-five high school girls are tackling programming, virtuous hacking and digital forensics this week at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. The no-cost program is intended to woo more women into data security. Tandon's population of female students for the coming academic year is 40 percent, compared to a national average of 20 percent among engineering undergraduate programs in 2015, according to the American Society for Engineering Education. The program, Computer Science for Cyber Security (CS4CS), lasts three weeks and will culminate with a cyber-mystery that involves, aptly, the theft of Wonder Woman's iconic lasso.