Using Research to Ensure Equity in a Cybersecurity Education Pathway

This poster describes how we are using research to inform the development of a cybersecurity education pathway to attract and retain students from groups that are underrepresented in computing fields. The partners include a non-profit research organization, a community-based tech workforce center, a community college, and a K-12 school district that serves predominantly Latinx students. The poster describes our goals, activities, the data we have collected, and how they are being used to create a sustainable pathway from high school to college that attracts a diversity of students. We describe our stages of research utilization, as well as the challenges that we are facing related to using research to ensure equity in the cybersecurity education pathway.