<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2019/gencyber-academy.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>08/14/2019</pubDate><title>Not Your Average Summer: High School Students Get Inside Look into Field of Cybersecurity</title><description>Forty students from around the region spent a week tracking down cyber criminals, decrypting codes, cracking passwords, and learning how to hack into major websites – to ultimately understand how to protect them – as part of the University of New Haven’s GenCyber Agent Academy, an innovative program supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency.</description><hide-description/><author>Jackie Hennessey, contributing writer</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>August 14, 2019</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2019/gencyber-1.jpg" alt="Image of GenCyber Agent Academy"/></image><image-caption>Students at the GenCyber Academy examine a mobile device. (Photo by Jack Bradley ’19)</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2019</tag></tags></item>