NSF Funded

Three-year grant starting 10/1/2023.

Award Number: 2301202

Principle Investigator: Mike Libassi


Implementing Game-Based Learning to Enhance Training for Cybersecurity Technicians and Recruit a Diverse Cybersecurity Workforce 

Goal: 

Develop a hands-on learning and recruitment tool to meet current and emerging cybersecurity workforce needs in southwest Ohio and the nation. 

Deliverables: 

Partnerships: 

Major Grant Activities First Year

Sticker Heist Interest

Sign up form (at Sinclair Office 365) if you are interested in getting a Sticker Heist kit when they become widely available. 

Sign-up Form

Sticker Heist in the News


Updates

Fall Updates (2024) 

Event planning and great updates from Journey Electronics. 

Dayton 2024 Heist School.

Friday October 4th, 2024, at the Muesum of the USAF we hosted a total of over thirty attendees (fifteen local area schools) for the very first train the trainer event.

Posted pics here: LinkedIn Post 


PCBs

9/6/2024

First Box Open

9/6/2024

First Box

9/6/2024

Summer Work (2024) 

Setting-up laptops, code and system testing in lab and getting orders together for the kits for the October "Heist School" event.  

August Updated Designs

Few modifications for door for manufacturing simplicity.  Window door may be revisited.   Renders are matt black.  Final will be a specked powder coated.  Looking  forward to posting pics of the first one soon.

Main View

Door to view loot.  Knob and locking clasp.

Top

LEDs, RFID and display.  Knob and locking clasp.

Back

Access to PI ports.

Heist Kit Tactical Gag

Black tactical bag with logo for everting for the heist.

Box Design Done - July 31, 2024

Journey Electronics work on the system enclosure (box) is compete and out for quote and then get the PO off then production.  

We also have all the carry cases for the kits.  Black branded (Sticker Heist logo) tactical bags to hold everything.

Initial testing of new Arduino code base is done.  

Except more code testing and creating new easy, medium and hard mode system images.

Heistbooks

6/24/2024

Part of the Sticker Heist Kit is a laptop.  We've been installing and configuring these for the October event.  

These Lenovo IdeaPad 1i (14” Intel) Laptop's get Linux Mint XFCE (or Fedora Security lab based on the WiFi chipset).  

Reference documents, and few apps (nmap, dirb, Wireshark) that are used in the heist.


Grant Partner with JEC

It's been great partnering with Journy Electronic Corp on key aspects of Sticker Heist.  PCB and box design and production.

Laptops

4/23/24 - We got the 20 laptops for the basic heist kits.  They are Lenovo Ideapad 1 Laptop 14" display.

Installed Linux Mint XFCE edition (with Wireshark, nmap, etc.) customer wallpaper and reference PDFs on.  Will setup rest over next month, or so.

PCB are Alive

4/5/2024 - JRE arrived at the lab with first PCB. Great mome to see a vison come to life.  Thanks JRE!

Hack Dayton 4/5 Event

4/5/2024 - Ran first run of medium mode at the Friday event Hack Dayton event (ran by Strong Crypto Innovations).

Challange Modes

3/28/2024 - All three challenge modes are drafted.  Will test new Arduino code on new PCB then incorporate that into the images.  For now, all three work with current code base.

Printed Circuit Boards (PCB). Close to first run!

JEC sent me this on Friday March 15th, 2024.  Very excited to get these in my hands.

Cyber Heist Lab

Lab Setup

Centerville Room 104 is now the Sinclair Cyber Heist Labs.


Print and Assembly 

Coding and Testing

Parts and office workspace.