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Breakout Box: AI Mission

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Our power grid is under attack. A hostile cyber force has deployed a virus designed to disrupt our infrastructure and send the country into darkness. The virus is wreaking havoc across key power hubs, causing blackouts in multiple regions. If it isn’t stopped soon, we’ll face a nationwide disaster.

The Breakout Box: AI Mission is a fast-paced, 45- 60-minute game based learning experience where students step into a custom-built immersive space where they will face a simulated cyberattack and will have to work together to stop it. Students will solve hands-on challenges and puzzles to protect a power grid from being shut down. Along the way, students will train an artificial intelligence assistant named Charge, teaching it to respond to threats and learning how AI can be applied to STEM careers of the future.

While playing, students practice teamwork, problem-solving, and decision-making while learning key computer science and cybersecurity concepts including prioritization and containment strategies, reading and interpreting data, spotting patterns, code structure, binary conversions, and online safety practices.

The mission is simple: think fast, work together, and stop the attack before time runs out

 

 

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    DoD STEM: Computer Science Resources

    Learn about the different STEM careers in computer science and how the DoD relies on these specialists.  See what working for the DoD can look like and learn more about related internships and scholarships.

    DoD STEM: Cyber Resources

    Learn about the different STEM careers in cyber and how the DoD relies on these specialists.  See what working for the DoD can look like and learn more about related internships and scholarships.


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