INTRODUCTION 

This engaging program will take students through the importance of cyber security and how to solve a cyber security attack. With a focus on networks and systems, students will apply their mathematical and logarithmic thinking to rectify real-world stimulated events.  

PROGRAM OVERVIEW  

Workshop 1: Train the Network 

Focus:

• Describe the connectedness of locations using networks  

• Understand and apply networks and relationships in real-world scenarios  

Activities: 

• Challenge Brief: Engage in a cyber security hack that has occurred in a train network system 

• Problem Solving: Build a train network system that can connect multiple stations 

• Prototyping: Test and modify the network system according to locations of stops and train schedule 

Success Criteria: 

• Connect multiple locations using a physical network diagram  

• Solve a real-world network problem that considers ethical dilemmas  

Workshop 2: Cyber-Manufacturing Hack 

Focus:

• Understand a complex robotic system and how to engage in different components in a manufacturing line 

• Build and modify code to simulate real-world assemble lines for large scale manufacturing 

 Activities: 

• Challenge Brief: Engage in an assembly line malfunction that resulted in products being scattered everywhere  

• Problem Solving: Get the robotic arm up and running again and determine how the goods can be produced again 

• Prototyping: Reiterate the assembly line process to be efficient and fast, building a conceptual network diagram to move from all the necessary locations 

Success Criteria :

• Understand the process of using network diagrams in manufacturing to efficiently rectify issues 

•  Solve a manufacturing assembly line issue using logarithmic thinking