Message From Leadership

Dr. Kathy Cox, Associate Vice-President of Strategic Partnerships, Enactus Faculty Advisor, and Associate Professor

 CityU Enactus has openings!  Teamwork, Community Connections, and Fun 

Enactus is a global organization dedicated to providing students with an experiential learning experience with executing projects with socially positive outcomes. The City University of Seattle Enactus team is an award-winning team. We believe in collaboration. We have team members from all over the world and different disciplines including technology. We collaborate with each other and community members such as businesses, organizations, and government. For example, our team members gave a presentation at City Hall on our recent project, Clean Up, to a city official who reports directly to the Mayor of Seattle. In April of this year, eleven team members presented Project Clean Up at the New York Enactus competition and received a champion award for the Early-Stage Level category. Enactus students get experience presenting but more importantly collaborating to execute their innovative ideas.  We start with generating ideas that meet the Enactus criteria of incubating a social enterprise and then use project management skills to implement the project. We have done well by capitalizing on each member’s special skills. CityU’s Enactus Club needs the technical skills that the STC students are learning to improve our projects and to develop new ones.

If you are interested in Enactus, please contact our VP of membership, fethphilipp@cityuniversity.edu, or me at kathycox@cityu.edu. 

Holiday Fun

Advent of Cyber 2022 – TryHackMe

Get started with Cyber Security in 24 days! Learn the basics and complete a new, beginner-friendly security exercise every day leading up to Christmas. It’s an advent calendar but with security challenges instead of chocolate! Plus there are prizes!

All exercises in Advent of Cyber follow a fun Christmas story. This year, the elf McSkidy needs your help to investigate a serious breach and test all remaining systems for security flaws. For more information and to register – click here.


2022 SANS Holiday Hack Challenge & KringleCon

Join the global cybersecurity community in its most festive cyber security challenge and virtual conference of the year. The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is a FREE series of super fun, high-quality, hands-on cybersecurity challenges. The SANS Holiday Hack Challenge is for all skill levels, with a stellar prize at the end for the best of the best entries. For more information click here.


Thanksgiving Follow Up

Here are the results of the Thanksgiving word cloud from last week’s Byte. Thank you to all who participated!

Opportunities

Monolith is headquartered in Lincoln, NE, is excited to announce its search for a Cybersecurity Intern. Click here to apply for the internship.


Women in Cloud – Career Move

Join the WIC Digital Network!
Connect with WIC on LinkedIn!

Accenture – Direct Recruiter Access

2023 Future Computing Summer Internship

The Advanced Computing Systems Research Program (ACS) in the NSA Research Directorate is joining with their counterparts in the High-Performance Computing Solutions (HPCS) and Operations (OPS) organizations to provide a select number of undergraduate students an exciting 8-week internship opportunity.  

The FCSI will focus on High Performance Computing (HPC), a field critical to national security, discovery, and technological innovation. This internship experience is ideal for students who will be completing their junior year (Spring 2024 graduates), and is well-suited for students in math, computer science, computer engineering, or related STEM fields.

For more information and instructions on how to apply, please click here


WiCyS 2023

Women in CyberSecurity is holding their annual conference on March 16-18 2023 in Denver, Colorado!

Students MUST apply for a WiCyS scholarship to attend the conference (there is no general WiCyS 2023 registration for students) and have to be a current WiCyS student member to apply. For more information and to apply for a scholarship click here.


AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Scholarship Program

The AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Scholarship program, in collaboration with Intel and Udacity, aims to help underserved and underrepresented high school and college students learn foundational ML concepts to prepare them for careers in AI and ML. For more information click here.

Upcoming Events

Experience Dyslexia

The International Dyslexia Association, Washington State Branch presents Experience Dyslexia. Click here to register for free. 

Introduction to Cloud Jobs – Chaitra Vedullapalli

Block 6th


 
Missed out on an Invited Talk or Tech Talk?

Check out the C4CYI YouTube Channel for STC recorded Invited Talks and events. Explore ACM Tech Talks and the ACM website to watch their free informative Tech Talks. ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. You can find record CAE Tech talks here. For questions on CAE Tech Talk, please send them email.

Club Announcements

Cybersecurity Club

Anyone curious or interested in Cybersecurity is welcome to join! The club is also open to alumni, we encourage all current and future alumni to attend the meetings.

We have launched our Breach of the Week program! Each week, one club member presents a breach or aspect of current cyber events to the club in 3-5 minutes. This is a great opportunity to practice presentation skills and gain
constructive feedback.

Meetings are held on Thursdays at 5:30 PDT via MS Teams. Fall meetings are focused on restarting the cybersecurity club, beginning with filling open leadership positions. 

Cybersecurity Club open roles are:

  • VP of Operations 
  • VP of Administration/Secretary

For more information about each role, please contact Dan Montague

Cybersecurity Resources

Cybersecurity Hub Events

Competitions & Challenges

Mountain West Cyber Games

When: Saturday, December 3, 2022 8:30am—4:30 pm MDT

Teams will compete in one 7-hour round of Cybersecurity Capture the Flag (CTF) to take home the title and great prizes! Teams can be geographically collocated but the challenge event will be online.

Space is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. No cost to compete! This event will be hosted on Deloitte’s Cyber CTF platform. AFCEA will be offering generous prizes for the top three teams!

Schools can register as many teams as you can assemble — no limit. Teams consist of up to 4 students each.  Non-UCCS teams should register here!


 

STC Tech Club

STC Tech Club meets every Thursday from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM (PDT) via Teams to provide tech-related learning opportunities, skill development, and networking. Students or faculty who would like to share their expertise or project, please contact Adrian ParkerClick here to join. Everyone is invited!

Note: Coming in January.  A Workshop on building and configuring your own Firewall…details to follow.  

Career Resources

Career Center – Deirdre Grime

AWS Resources

AWS QwikLabs
AWS Workshops
Security Learning Path
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

Microsoft Resources

Microsoft Learn: documentation, hands-on training, and certifications
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft Dev Essentials
Create Low-Code MR Apps with Power Apps

GitLab Sources

GitLab CI/CD recorded webcast STC TA documentation for setting up environments

Open Source Projects

LibreFoodPantry Open-Source Project

Programming resources

Puget Sound Programming Python (PuPPy)

PuPPy meets once a month at one of the branches of the Seattle Public Library. The location will be announced on meetup.com in the above link.

Web app testing

Puppeteer (Google Product) Node library

Playwright (Microsoft Product) end-to-end web app testing

Conferences/Webinars

Watch on YouTube: .NET Conf 2022 – Day 2

Watch live AWS re:Invent 2022 for free (11/28 – 12/02)

STC Tech Club Announcements

The STC Tech Club is proud to announce we are providing vouchers for 50% discounts on the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification exam. Please contact Adrian Parker if interested.

 

Data Science Club

The Data Science Club would like to invite you to our weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 4pm PDT. You can join our meetings using the link here. We will be covering various topics this quarter including Computer Vision, Data Engineering, and NLP! Take a look at our Fall Quarter Calendar to see more

Please reach out to the club president, Mahathi Vucha, with any questions.

Google Developer Student Club

Click here for information about the Google Developer Student Club – City University of Seattle Chapter. In the meantime, if you have any questions, feel free to email us at gdsc.cityu@gmail.com.


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