Resources for Students & Educators

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NSA Partners with Schools

What does NSA do with schools?

To meet future national security challenges, NSA partners with schools to develop the talent and tools we need by:

• funding skill development programs like summer camps
• promoting development of curricula for growing career fields such as cybersecurity
• sponsoring skills and research paper competitions
• hosting student interns and co-ops
• awarding research grants and funding research labs and projects

These partnerships help cultivate the next generation of experts in science, technology, engineering, math, language and analysis. They broaden the pool of skilled cybersecurity professionals who can protect our nation from cyberattacks. Our academic partnerships foster interest in critical need foreign languages. They also advance science through research and innovation that benefits the country even beyond NSA's need to apply emerging technologies to our mission.

What's available for me?

We have partnership opportunities at both the college/university level and the kindergarten-12 level. If you are a student, an educator or an academic researcher, check out what we have to offer below.

Get in touch with the Higher Education Outreach team.

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  Information for Students

  • Apply for a full-time job
  • Apply for a college internship
  • Apply for a high school work study experience
  • Participate in the Codebreaker Challenge competition
  • Participate in GenCyber, a K-12 cybersecurity summer camp
  • Participate in STARTALK, a K-12 foreign language summer camp
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  Information for Educators

  • Request STEM and foreign language services for your K-12 classroom
  • Attend GenCyber, a cybersecurity summer camp for K-12 teachers
  • Attend STARTALK, a foreign language summer camp for K-12 teachers
  • Learn about NSA's university-level research partnerships
  • Submit proposals for the OnRamp II program
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  Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE)

  • What is a CAE?
  • How does a college or university become a:
    • CAE in Cyber Defense
    • CAE in Cyber Operations
  • List of current CAEs in Cyber Defense and in Cyber Operations
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  Featured School Series

  • What is the Featured School Series?
  • Current Featured Schools:
    • Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Hawai'i at Mānoa’s (UH Mānoa)
    • The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)
    • North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (N.C. A&T)
    • University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
  • Upcoming Featured School:
    • coming soon

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