{"id":159,"date":"2022-09-21T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/cyberimpact1\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2025-04-21T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:55:36","slug":"awards-and-recognitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/awards-and-recognitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Recognitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Coastal Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Undergraduate Research Program (COVA CCI) | Spring 2023<\/strong> &#8211; The program with COVA CCI required applicants to work with a mentor to write a research paper on a cybersecurity topic and to present the research to peers, faculty, and members of the organization. To complete the requirements, I collaborated with my mentor, Mr. Gladden, a faculty member in the ODU Cybersecurity program, and completed a research paper on the lack of Black women within the cybersecurity workforce. I presented the research via Zoom and was awarded $2,500. I also presented the research as a poster presentation at the CyberCon conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) Clearance Preparedness Program<\/strong> <strong>| November 2024<\/strong> &#8211; This was another program with COVA CCI, where applicants had to participate in monthly webinars to learn about the process of earning a security clearance, and finally getting a digital badge at the end as proof of newly gained knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"858\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30561\/2025\/04\/Eric-Preston-1-2-1024x858.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1000\" style=\"width:418px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30561\/2025\/04\/Eric-Preston-1-2-1024x858.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30561\/2025\/04\/Eric-Preston-1-2-300x251.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30561\/2025\/04\/Eric-Preston-1-2-768x644.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30561\/2025\/04\/Eric-Preston-1-2-358x300.png 358w, https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30561\/2025\/04\/Eric-Preston-1-2.png 1205w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Virginia Space Grant Consortium Stem Bridge Scholarship Program | April 2025 <\/strong> &#8211; The scholarship program was split into two parts: the first required an interview with a staff member at your associated university and developing a research paper, after which, I was awarded the first half of $1,000. The second part is about simply attending a research conference to be awarded in the second half of the $1,000. <\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30561\/2025\/04\/STEM-Bridge-Program-Report.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">STEM-Bridge-Program-Report<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coastal Virginia Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Undergraduate Research Program (COVA CCI) | Spring 2023 &#8211; The program with COVA CCI required applicants to work with a mentor to write a research paper on a cybersecurity topic and to present the research to peers, faculty, and members of the organization. To complete the requirements, I collaborated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/awards-and-recognitions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awards and Recognitions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24915,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24915"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/epres010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}