For Current UHM SFS students
For Current UHM SFS students
Please refer to my slides on 10/17/2023.
+Now, we mostly send out updates in emails.
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The following are old info out of date.
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1) Meals: The registration covers dinner on Jan 13th, breakfast/lunch/dinner on 14th, and breakfast/lunch are provide on 15th. The event is closed about 2 or 3 pm on 15th. You will have 13th and 14th the whole day to interact with different agencies, and a half day of 15th. If you arrive early or leave later, you can find a few cheap sandwiches shops within walking distance from the hotel. Use Google Map to find them.
2) Registration and Hotel. Please register the event now, and reserve a room (your card will not be charged for the room until you check in). Hotel reservations MUST be made through the event registration site to get the event rate. The hotel is very large and nice. I strongly suggest you stay there. It is cold outside at that time at DC. You can choose a room with double beds to share with each other.
3) please do NOT rent a car. UH need you to justify a car rental; parking and driving are usually expensive and messy at DC, especially when snow and ice are around. Just call a Uber or Lyft if you need a ride.
4) Please find flights arriving DC on time (either DCA or IAD or BWI). There are all within 1.5 hour taxi/shuttle to the hotel. Uber or Lift works well.
5) You can go a little earlier to go around DC area if you like to, spending 2 or 3 days for visiting. You can also combine this business trip with your personal trip, e.g., visiting East coast family. Just tell Jamie which days are for business. We will cover the hotel rooms for those days.
6) Please send your phone number to me. I will arrive Jan 12th late evening and leave 15th before noon. We need to get together there.
7) I strongly suggest everyone to go, unless you have very unique reasons. It is a rare chance to see all different agencies at the same time. (Unless you have a final intern/job offer, the conditional offer doesn't count.)
8) I ordered new SFS shirts for new students. I will let you know when to pick them up. We will wear the Dark Green Shirt on Jan 13th, and please wear the Blue Shirt in 14th. Please tuck in your shirt, and put on a tie if you have one. We will try to sit together for lunch and dinner.
9) Travel Request: Please email your invitation email, your itinerary, and your registration receipt to Jamie and CC to me. She need to create a travel request in the system. Please submit the medical consent form and the waiver agreement to Jamie.
10) Play safe. DC nights are not famous for safety. Please avoid to go around in late night. Especially, please don't get drunk or do anything "funny". You are around government people.
11) The flights returning to Hawaii are usually before 3pm from DC. If you want to return on 15th, you have to leave around noon or earlier from the hotel to airports.
2018/06/12
PROGRAM REMINDERS:
1) Background/Security Clearance Investigations: please remind students that they should not be listing the SFS Program Office as an employer, nor the PI as a supervisor on their resumes and/or forms for background/security clearance investigations. However, it is encouraged that they annotate on their resume that they are an SFS student.
2) Timely Decline of a Job Offer: please remind your students that if they have an offer pending and they decide to go a different direction, they MUST let the agency know immediately that they are no longer interested. Agencies spend a lot of time and resources on recruitment efforts, and we need to be respectful of that so they continue to hire from our talented pool of candidates.
PROGRAM NEWS:
1) SFSCon: Hands-on Cybersecurity Training Event for CyberCorps SFS Students:
Cal Poly Pomona SFS program will be organizing a two-day, hands-on cybersecurity workshop "SFSCon" on six different tracks during Sep 14-16, 2018. SFSCon will also include a CTF competition, poster competition, resume clinic and professional career panel by federal and state agencies. SFSCon has been planned as an annual continuation of the Cyber Infrastructure Security workshop (http://www.cpp.edu/~polysec/ciworkshop2017.html) organized by Cal Poly Pomona and UIUC/CTSC last year, where a lot of participants have provided positive feedback to plan an annual event on hands-on cybersecurity training dedicated for SFS students. This year the training will be provided by a collaboration of academics and industry cybersecurity experts.
Thanks to the NSF, we are able to cover the lodging and subsistence of 75 students and offset their partial travel cost. Please ask your interested students to fill out the participant interest form available on the SFSCon website asap, but no later than June 30, 2018. http://www.cc-sfscon.com/
For inquiries, please e-mail the PI at Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Mohammad Husain: sfs@cpp.edu.
2) CyberCorps SFS New Scholar Boot Camp, August 9-10, at Tennessee Tech: June 30 Deadline:
With support from the NSF, the CyberCorps SFS New Scholar Boot Camp has been designed to help students become successful in the SFS program and take their place as the nation’s next cybersecurity professionals. This boot camp will offer new scholars with tips and resources to supplement their technical learning at their respective programs.
The camp will be held August 9-10, 2018 on the Tennessee Tech University campus (1 hour east of Nashville airport, BNA). Boot camp topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
· Program expectations
· Ethics and etiquette in research
· Technical writing skills
· Interpersonal skills
· Leadership
· Resume writing
· Interviews
· Time management skills
· Equitable communication and treatment
· Support structures
With NSF support, students will receive a stipend for expenses at one of four levels, as determined by the distance between the participating CyberCorps institution and Tennessee Tech University. Lodging and travel are included in the stipend listed below. Students may supplement any overage costs by using their professional development funding.
Level 1 – Students will receive a stipend of $500 for schools located within 500 miles of Tennessee Tech University.
Level 2 – Students will receive a stipend of $700 for schools located between 500 and 1000 miles from Tennessee Tech University.
Level 3 – Students will receive a stipend of $1,000 for schools located greater than 1000 miles from Tennessee Tech University.
Level 4 – Students will receive a stipend of $1,200 for schools located in Alaska/Hawaii/Puerto Rico.
One faculty per institution can accompany students, however there will not be a travel stipend for them.
We have a limited capacity of 100 for non-Tennessee Tech students. It will be first come first served with priority given to new CyberCorps designee institutions and students from underrepresented groups.
Students can apply at this link by June 30: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SFSBootcampApp
Notifications will go out shortly after.