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CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition

The “CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition” initiative is co-chaired by:
- Wei Li - Nova Southeastern University
- Xiuwen Liu - Florida State University

The CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition Committee was established by the CAE-CoP-CD Steering Committee to encourage and promote cybersecurity awareness and online safety practices by taking advantage of the October Cybersecurity Awareness Month and all throughout the year. As a CAE-CD, all institutions are conducting outreach and community activities, while most are enhancing such activities during the month of October to provide further support for Cybersecurity Awareness Month, others are continuously providing outreach activities to their community throughout the year. The CAE Program of Study (PoS) Validation and CAE Designation requirements call for outreach activities by all CAE-CDs to engage faculty members and students in extracurricular activities such as “experiential learning activities, local/regional/national cyber exercises and competitions, outreach to community colleges and high schools, computer check-up days…” (CAE-CD Requirement Document, p. 11), and “outreach activities allow the cybersecurity program to engage with business and industry to provide pathways for graduates while maintaining an appropriate curriculum to place graduates into those jobs” (p. 19). This initiative was formed to showcase the CAEs who are doing above and beyond their call for duty by recognizing the outstanding outreach work performed. Thus, the CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition will challenge CAEs to submit their activities to the CAE-CD Outreach Competition Committee based on the criteria noted below and will be evaluated for recognition of their
outstanding outreach work.

To read more about this initiative, check via: 

• The Criteria, Rule, and Submission Instructions for the 2024 CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition (Deadline: February 15, 2025) - Coming soon!
• Submission site: [coming soon]

Additionally, the committee conducted sessions in early 2024 to solicit CAEs submissions of their 2024 Yearly (from Jan 2024 to Dec 2024) Community Outreach activities, following the information in the file above. During February 20245 the 2024 Award Committee reviewed all submissions and recommended the top CAE-CDs who provided the most impactful outreach activities to their community during the 2024 calendar year. 

The CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition - 2024 Award Committee: 

- Xiuwen Liu - Florida State University, Award Committee Co-Chair
- Wei Li - Nova Southeastern University, Award Committee Co-Chair
- Bei-Tseng Chu - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Michael Kelly - Community College of Rhode Island
- Stanley Kostka - Moraine Valley Community College
- Stanley Mierzwa - Kean University
- Idongesit Mkpong-Ruffin - Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
- Mandy Reininger - Chemeketa Community College
- Michael Tu - Purdue University Northwest

We want to thank the 2024 Award Committee members for their dedication and hard work! 

2024 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award Winners:

The top winners of the 2024 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award will be recognized during the 2025 CAE Community Symposium. Additionally, this year, all CAE-CD institutions that will submit for the competition, will be listed on this page in rank order. 

Archive of Prior 'CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition' Year

The CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition - 2023 Award Committee: 

- Xiuwen Liu - Florida State University, Award Committee Co-Chair
- Wei Li - Nova Southeastern University, Award Committee Co-Chair
- Bei-Tseng Chu - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Glenn Dietrich - University of Texas at San Antonio
- Michael Kelly - Community College of Rhode Island
- Stanley Kostka - Moraine Valley Community College
- Stanley Mierzwa - Kean University
- Mandy Reininger - Chemeketa Community College
- Michael Tu - Purdue University Northwest
 

We want to thank the 2023 Award Committee members for their dedication and hard work! 

2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award Winners:

University of Colorado Colorado Springs - 1st Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award
University of West Florida - 2nd Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award
United States Air Force Academy - 3rd Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award
University of Alabama in Huntsville - 4th Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award
Forsyth Technical Community College - 5th Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award
Kean University - 6th Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Recognition
Coastline College - 7th Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Recognition
Michigan Technological University - 8th Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Recognition
Murray State University - 9th Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Recognition
Tennessee Technological University - 10th Place 2023 CAE-CD Community Outreach Recognition

The CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition - 2022 Award Committee: 

- Xiuwen Liu - Florida State University, Award Committee Co-Chair
- Wei Li - Nova Southeastern University, Award Committee Co-Chair
- Bei-Tseng Chu - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Glenn Dietrich - University of Texas at San Antonio
- Michael Kelly - Community College of Rhode Island
- Stanley Kostka - Moraine Valley Community College
- Stanley Mierzwa - Kean University
- Mandy Reininger - Chemeketa Community College
- Michael Tu - Purdue University Northwest
- Steve Weldon - Augusta University

CAE-CD Community Outreach Competition 2022 Award Winners

We want to thank the 2022 Award Committee members for their dedication and hard work! 

2022 CAE-CD Community Outreach Award Winners:

University of West Florida - 1st Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
Nova Southeastern University - 2nd Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
University of Colorado Colorado Springs - 3rd Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
Murray State University - 4th Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
Capitol Technology University - 5th Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
Forsyth Technical Community College - 6th Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) - 7th Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
University of Southern Maine - 8th Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
Middle Georgia State University - 9th Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award
Kean University and Fairleigh Dickinson University - Both are tied for 10th Place 2022 CAE-CD Outreach Award 

Updated: Nov 11, 2024