Cybersecurity Pell Grant Initiative
Our key legislative priority in 2019 is to encourage Congress to establish and fund a bill containing our Cybersecurity Pell Grant, which would offer $1.5 billion in annual federal grants for cybersecurity training at HBCUs, community colleges, and K-12 schools. In order to advance our legislation, we plan to engage congressional leaders to educate them on the benefits of introducing and passing a bill that captures our legislative proposal.
Employers have a demand for workers with cyber skills in IT system design and repair, cybersecurity, data analytics, and drone operation. STEM4US! proposes what we’ve called the “Cybersecurity Pell Grant.” Here’s what this grant would entail:
We regularly submit testimony to cybersecurity related town halls and hearings that advocates the importance of our grant.
Employers have a demand for workers with cyber skills in IT system design and repair, cybersecurity, data analytics, and drone operation. STEM4US! proposes what we’ve called the “Cybersecurity Pell Grant.” Here’s what this grant would entail:
- Congress would authorize and appropriate $1.5 billion each year, for a ten-year period to fund free cybersecurity and related training.
- The grant would create a pipeline of talented and skilled cybersecurity workers that would enter into one of the nation’s fastest and most lucrative job fields.
We regularly submit testimony to cybersecurity related town halls and hearings that advocates the importance of our grant.
Cybersecurity Training Consortium
Goal: To create a $1.5 Billion federal grant administered either publicly (by the Department of Education) or privately (directly through the consortium) to build cybersecurity training labs/incubators at community colleges and HBCUs throughout the country.
Desired Results: Train 100,000 more cybersecurity professionals over the next 10 years and through these gain the necessary STEM skill to enter STEM fields and that the students are successful in finding STEM Employment. Each incubator, once fully operational, will be able to put at least 100 new, highly trained, STEM professionals in long term jobs per year.
Desired Results: Train 100,000 more cybersecurity professionals over the next 10 years and through these gain the necessary STEM skill to enter STEM fields and that the students are successful in finding STEM Employment. Each incubator, once fully operational, will be able to put at least 100 new, highly trained, STEM professionals in long term jobs per year.
Cybersecurity Workforce 2020 Podcast
As the nation approaches the 2020 election, what is the role of cybersecurity? Will the elections be hacked? Is the nation at risk of an attack against its energy, health, banking and telecom infrastructure that would result in what one Member of Congress has called a “zombie-apocalypse” like scenario? These are the questions that STEM4US! seeks to address in its new podcast set to be launched in October of 2019.
The podcast that will offer advice for reforming our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure, based upon interviews with energy executives, government officials, and educators. By asking interviewees about the challenges facing the cybersecurity infrastructure of their respective industries, we hope to create a productive discussion that will generate creative solutions and ideas for improving cybersecurity. We also hope that this podcast will inspire increased funding for cyber workforce training programs. In addition to interviewing executives, government leaders, and educators, the podcast will also feature profiles on students whose lives have been positively impacted by STEM.
The podcast that will offer advice for reforming our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure, based upon interviews with energy executives, government officials, and educators. By asking interviewees about the challenges facing the cybersecurity infrastructure of their respective industries, we hope to create a productive discussion that will generate creative solutions and ideas for improving cybersecurity. We also hope that this podcast will inspire increased funding for cyber workforce training programs. In addition to interviewing executives, government leaders, and educators, the podcast will also feature profiles on students whose lives have been positively impacted by STEM.