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Cyber Programs
1600 Avenue´s flagship program, Hip Hop Tech Leaders, inspires teens to pursue cybersecurity. How? By showing the impact of tech and cyber on things they love most, Hip Hop, its culture, its icons, its music. For example at our annual AI & Cyber PlayCon STEM Conference at the University of California at Berkeley we wanted to teach the kids about deep fakes and how AI is being misused. So we enlisted the help of the Microsoft team and Olympian and WNBA star Ariel Atkins to create a simulated / NOT ACTUAL, scenario, check this out...
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3 days and 2 nights at UC Berkeley as “college students”. Immersed in a cybersecurity and AI program, plus celebrity, tech and key influencer mentorship. Teens to get a full college experience at UC Berkeley, everything from staying in the dorms, to having classes, and eating in the cafeteria on the meal plan.​ Our hope is these same teens will envision themselves attending UC Berkeley or other universities and will be inspired to pursue cyber.careers.