Local teacher has plans for cyber security classes for students

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An area Military veteran has labored with a number of the greatest and most vital cyber safety companies within the U.S.

That features the NSA, the Division of Protection, and the Military Cyber Safety Command at Fort Gordon.

Now he needs to carry all that have to college students throughout our space. For college kids trying to get into IT and cyber safety, this may very well be the gateway to success.

Daniel Jackson is a instructor on the Academy of Richmond County. It’s been his aim to get extra college students into our native workforce within the CSRA.

He sat down with us and shared his plan to just do that.

Jackson says that he’s been in contact with a number of college districts about bettering the pipeline from colleges to the actual world. He additionally says Cisco Programs is able to construct a reproduction lab in colleges to assist prepare these college students.

For Jackson, college wasn’t all the time his first ardour whereas rising up in Augusta.

“I used to be a dropout right here, and whereas at school, I can keep in mind the sensation I had the place I felt as if I didn’t know sufficient in regards to the world to make sure choices about my future,” he stated.

So, he went into the Military, the place he labored in data expertise for 20 years.

“Began off with working off of radios and antennas, form of grew to engaged on computer systems and repair aspect with switches and routers,” he stated.

Now, he’s trying to make a change in colleges throughout the CSRA.

“I returned to the neighborhood to see it nonetheless occurring the place we don’t have sufficient sources within the schooling programs,” stated Jackson.

He plans to enhance profession, technical, and agricultural schooling or CTAE alternatives for college students. This would come with the NSA, Military Cyber Command, Georgia Cyber Heart, and different main company firms to construct a pipeline in our native colleges.

“I imagine that having all these key gamers on the desk attempting to pump sources into schooling can assist us resolve numerous the issues we’re seeing,” he stated.

This program is aimed to assist curb violence in our neighborhood, fill open positions in native industries, and decrease the highschool drop-out fee.

“All these folks coming collectively we will use the CSRA as a template, an instance for change,” stated Jackson.

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