Cyber Service attracting students

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http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0722/web-corps-07-24-02.asp

By Colleen O'Hara 
July 24, 2002

The Federal Cyber Service program, which offers scholarships to
undergraduate and graduate students to study information assurance in
exchange for two years of federal service, could have as many as 200
to 300 students by the end of the year, said Sujeet Shenoi, professor
of computer science at the University of Tulsa.

The University of Tulsa, which is one of six universities that
received Cyber Service scholarship money last year, expects to
increase its own roster to 50 students — up from the current 23. About
half are undergraduate students and half are graduate students, Shenoi
said.

Here's what the overall cyber corps looks like now:

Sixty-six students are finishing their first year in the program. The
students are from ages 20 to 64, and they include three married
couples, a rock singer and a former NASA employee who worked on the
Apollo missions. The students have summer internships at various
agencies, including NASA, the National Institute for Standards and
Technology, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Treasury
Department.

Students at the 2002 Cyber Corps Symposium this week praised the
program and the opportunities it provides, but said there are some
kinks in the system that need to be worked out. For instance, many
federal agencies still don't know about the Cyber Service program and
students were offered little help by the government in finding summer
internships, some students said.

"We need to get the word out," said Dan Blair, deputy director of the
Office of Personnel Management. OPM plans to work with the Human
Resources Management Council and the Partnership for Public Service to
increase awareness, he said at the symposium.
 
  

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