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<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;">Dear Parents/Guardians:</div>
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<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="highlight" id="0.7402800976350734" name="searchHitInReadingPane">Applications</span> are now open for our
2017 CyberSTEM and Intermediate CyberSTEM <span class="highlight" id="0.27649908489267505" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
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</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">1. </font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>CyberSTEM
<span class="highlight" id="0.017149797115044496" name="searchHitInReadingPane">Camp</span>: For Girls Entering Grades 7-8 in Fall 2017</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dates: July 17-21, 2017</font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">This 5 day experience provides hands-on activities focused on STEM and cybersecurity topics. Attendees will learn and apply basic concepts of programming, forensics, cryptography, and program management
from a series of gaming, modeling, and simulation activities, which explore the interconnections of science, math, technology, and computers. This is the fourth year that this
<span class="highlight" id="0.30875160418854053" name="searchHitInReadingPane">camp</span> is being offered, and will cover the same content as the 2016
<span class="highlight" id="0.24313236087903045" name="searchHitInReadingPane">camp</span>.</font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Find more information & <a href="https://mc2camps.wufoo.com/forms/q1nxfmwy0o80ycn/">
ONLINE APPLICATION</a> here: </font><a href="http://cyber.umd.edu/education/cyber-stem" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://cyber.umd.edu/education/cyber-stem</font></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2.</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Intermediate CyberSTEM
<span class="highlight" id="0.2377878388686121" name="searchHitInReadingPane">Camp</span>: For Girls Entering Grades 9-10 in Fall 2017</strong></font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Dates: July 24-28, 2017</font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">This 5 day experience provides hands-on activities focused on STEM and cybersecurity topics. Attendees will learn and apply basic concepts of programming, computer forensics, cryptography, steganography,
system vulnerabilities and program management from a series of gaming, modeling, simulation activities and hands-on exercises, which explore the interconnections of science, math, technology, and computers. Participants did NOT need to attend our CyberSTEM
middle school <span class="highlight" id="0.8803816037965415" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
camp</span> in order to be eligible. This <span class="highlight" id="0.6209556228941341" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
camp</span> covers similar content areas as CyberSTEM <span class="highlight" id="0.07864299524040186" name="searchHitInReadingPane">
camp</span> for 7th and 8th graders, and allows for a deeper and more in-depth exploration of the subject matter.</font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Find more information & <a href="https://mc2camp.wufoo.com/forms/qhisyfj1ei2agi/">
ONLINE APPLICATION </a>here: </font><a href="http://cyber.umd.edu/education/intermediate-cyber-stem" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://cyber.umd.edu/education/intermediate-cyber-stem</font></font></a><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
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<div style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Check out our other programs at
</font><a href="http://cyber.umd.edu/education" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">http://cyber.umd.edu/education</font></font></a><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> !</font><font face="Times New Roman,serif"><br>
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<font size="3">Jessica N. Harrington<br>
Graduate Assistant for Education <br>
Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2)<br>
3400 A.V. Williams Building <br>
jharring@umiacs.umd.edu <br>
301-405-6735<br>
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cyber.umd.edu/education" tabindex="0" id="NoLP">www.cyber.umd.edu/education</a>
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