据美联社3月12日报道，根据这项计划，教师向学生讲授数据保护、计算机网络协议、弱点和辩论学、防火墙、信息伪装、网络基础和无线安全等。更重要的是，教师们还在课堂上与学生讨论与互联网安全相关的道德准则与法规。该校校长克里斯托弗·莫米尼说，尽管现在的年轻人比前辈更懂计算机知识，但他们往往喜欢搞些高科技恶作剧，安排这一学习计划的目的就是将年轻人天生的好奇心引上正轨。

　　纽约州锡拉丘兹大学工程与计算机学科项目负责人斯皮纳强调说，尽管计算机课程在美国中学里普遍开设，但“（信息安全课程）不仅是一项改进，而且是上了一个新台阶”。斯皮纳曾参与美国空军飞行员的培训工作。本次开设的信息安全课程是由位于罗姆市的美国空军研究实验室的电脑专家参与设计的。2002年，该实验室曾为美军后备军官训练团开设了一项为期10周的信息安全培训课程。该实验室的首席电脑工程师卡迈勤·雅布尔说：“按这项计划，除了教给年轻人如何保护信息安全外，还将拓展他们的想象力，激励他们学习相关知识并投身信息安全事业。”

　　雅布尔透露，这项计划将从2007年起在整个纽约州中学推广。如果顺利的话，2008年可能推广到全国所有中学。

　　A group of students at Rome Catholic School are learning howtobecome the future defenders of cyberspace through a pilotprogramthat officials say is the first of its kind in thecountry.

　　The program teaches students about data protection,computernetwork protocols and vulnerabilities, security, firewallsandforensics, data hiding, and infrastructure andwirelesssecurity.

　　Most importantly, officials said, teachers discuss ethicalandlegal considerations in cyber security.

　　Its a great course. Its a littler harder than I expected,saidCatherine Gudaitis, a junior interested in theater. But Iknow inthe world Im going to live in, this will be necessaryinformation,even common knowledge.

　　President Bush made cyber security a focal point in February2003in his National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, citingtheimportance of safeguarding America from cripplinginternet-basedattacks by terrorists against U.S. power grids,airports and othertargets.

　　The pilot program was developed with help from computer expertsatthe U.S. Air Forces Research Lab in Rome, who four yearsagocreated a 10-week Advanced Course in Engineering CyberSecurityBoot Camp for the militarys Reserve Officers TrainingCorps, saidKamal Jabbour, the labs principal computerengineer.

　　Besides teaching teenagers to protect their digital assets,thecourse opens their imagination to the challenges in cyberspace,andseeks to excite them into a college education incomputerengineering and a professional career in cyber security,Jabboursaid.

　　While computer courses are commonplace in American schools,theRome program is not just a little different. This is astepchange, said Eric Spina, dean of Syracuse Universitysengineeringand computer science programs, which also helped withthe pilotsdevelopment.

　　Spina said the material covered in the course is subjectmatterthat college students -- even engineering and computersciencemajors -- typically dont receive until their junioryear.

　　A high school student with this kind of background would beanasset anywhere they went, Spina said.

　　Although young people are more technologically savvy thanever,they too frequently dabble in high-tech mischief. Romesprogram isan effort to rechannel that native interest, saidPrincipalChristopher Mominey.

　　Thirteen students are enrolled in the 20-week electivecourse,which began with the start of the current semester Jan. 31.Theclass meets for 45 minutes after school four days a week, withtwoof the sessions devoted to lab time, said Ed Nickerson, oneofthree teachers who designed the curriculum.

　　With financial support from Rome Lab and Syracuse University,theschool transformed a one-time home economics classroom intoa12-station wireless computer lab.

　　Nickerson said the students -- sophomores, juniors and seniors--represent a wide spectrum of both academic ability andcomputerknow-how. The school has approximately 400 studentsgradeskindergarten through 12th, and a senior class this year of18.

　　The curriculum will be offered statewide beginning next year.OnFriday, several dozen administrators and educators attendedaworkshop at the Rome school as an introduction. A weeklongcoursewill be offered in August to prepare high school teachers toteachcyber security. If successful, the program could beofferednationwide in 2008, Jabboursaid.（何晓鸿）：[双语新闻]抑郁症与心脏病之间存在密切关系[双语新闻]布莱尔要帮英国女孩儿找工作[双语新闻]儿子数学作业难倒贝克汉姆[双语新闻]青少年肥胖与家庭周边环境有关境有关