At the 2016 Community College Cyber Summit (3CS) in Pittsburgh, National CyberWatch announced that it would be launching a new Innovations in Cybersecurity Education program in the winter of 2016, as part of National CyberWatch's Awards & Recognition program. All National CyberWatch members received nomination forms for the program.

The form requested basic and easy-to-capture information (e.g., program name, people involved in its conception and roll out, reasons for success, and replication potential). The deadline for application submissions was March 15, 2017. Shortly after, a panel of cybersecurity educators and NCC partners reviewed these submissions, 44 in total (far exceeding our expectations), and selected 5 for recognition.

A reference document was created listing all nominations and the 5 winners. You can find an electronic copy of this document here: https://www.nationalcyberwatch.org/ncw-content/uploads/2017/07/NCC_ICE_Booklet_WEB.pdf.