National CyberWatch Center is now offering you a plethora of opportunities to showcase your advancements in cybersecurity education. Be a thought leader, influence others in the right cybersecurity skills and development direction, help us focus more on workforce development, and inspire others to take action!

Be a Virtual Presenter! You don’t even have to leave the office (or your home for that matter) to be a virtual presenter. We are currently seeking presentation proposals that are 20 to 30 minutes long for the 2019 Virtual Brown Bag Lunch program. All presentations should unveil new innovations in cybersecurity education and align with one of these specialties: Operate and Maintain, Investigate, Collect and Operate, Analyze, Oversight and Development, Securely Provision, and Protect and Defend. Deadline is February 28, 2019.

Be an Author!  If you have something to share about cybersecurity skills and development then do it! The Cybersecurity Skills Journal: Practice and Research is the perfect opportunity since it’s currently looking for papers. Join others as they write papers for the nation's first peer-reviewed, hybrid access, scholarly publication focused exclusively on cybersecurity skills. It seeks to raise the capability spectrum of the cybersecurity workforce through open and free dissemination of research on evidence-based practices and private access to digital tools and practice guides. Deadline: February 15th, 2019.

Be a Presenter (in-person)!   We all know that the role of community colleges in preparing students for cybersecurity jobs is changing. We invite you to join us in doing something about it! Together, we must focus anew on workforce development and work roles; raise the capability maturity level of incumbent and entrant workers; and provide evidence-based measures of program effectiveness. We need new programs, courses, certificates, skills-based instructional content, and methods of instruction that rely on the latest in learning science. And we need YOU to submit a proposal! Deadline: February 15th, 2019