Dear CI Community Members,

We hope you all have had a wonderful academic year! This is a newsletter sent to those who have expressed interest in the T3-CIDERS project. Going forward, we hope to stay in touch with our community members more regularly, about a couple times a year.

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Cohort 2024 Updates

The first cohort, which began their participation in Spring of 2024, had their Summer Institute in July last year; many of them have completed their local CI training activities. You can read the report on the Summer Institute on our website.

T3-CIDERS Paper is Published!

We recently published a short paper to introduce the T3-CIDERS train-the-trainer project to the HPC education & training community, which includes a brief description of our experience working with the Summer Institute with the first cohort in 2024:

T3-CIDERS: Fostering a Community of Practice in CI- and Data-Enabled Cybersecurity Research Through a Train-the-Trainer Program
Wirawan Purwanto, Mohan Yang, Peng Jiang, Masha Sosonkina, and Hongyi Wu
Journal of Computational Science Education, Volume 16, Issue 1 (March 2025), pp. 16–19
Official copy: https://doi.org/10.22369/issn.2153-4136/16/1/4
DOI: 10.22369/issn.2153-4136/16/1/4

The paper is free to download and read. Please check it out and share this paper with your colleagues and students!

Cohort 2025 Opening Soon!

Please mark down the location and dates for the next cohort’s Institute! The T3-CIDERS Cohort 2025 Winter Institute will be held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ on January 5-9, 2026. A flyer is available to share with your community. Registration will open in the summer. To be informed of the opening of this cohort, please fill out the interest form located at tinyurl.com/t3ciders-signup  (also on the QR code on the flyer).

Download the flyer as a PDF file here.

CTRL+ALT+ELITE: First High School Outreach Workshop!

The first outreach workshop was held at Norview High School, Norfolk, Virginia on Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 after school hours. It was delivered by Elexiah Smart with the assistance of Dr. Wirawan Purwanto, Chunyu Hu, and Ted Birkland, and organized by high school teacher Mr. Michael McDonald. About 14-16 students attended the workshop.

The workshop introduced high school students to Linux command-line interface (CLI) as an efficient way to interact with computers. It lasted about an hour and a half, including a PowerPoint presentation, a live demonstration, and a hands-on activity in which the students competed for a prize to reach the highest level in the Bandit Wargame. Overall, the students seemed highly engaged and interested in the topics discussed, and this workshop achieved its goal of introducing younger audiences to cyber-related topics to which they may have never previously been exposed.

The materials from this outreach workshop are available openly at: https://lexiluthor05.github.io/Ctrl-Alt-Elite/

The T3-CIDERS team looks forward to everyone’s participation and support in this project, and we look forward to seeing many of you in the Cohort 2025 Winter Institute in Arizona!

Sincerely,
T3-CIDERS Team