♪ The day after the election students and the cybersecurity pathway at Fairdale High School in Louisville investigated a fake cyber security threat at the polls through a partnership with the KC 7 Foundation students got the chance to be a cyber security analyst for the day.

>> The majority, what my students during class is cybersecurity related things.

We did a brief focus on hardware software, taking part computers, put them together.

Robotics code.

But recently we put a heavy focus on actual cybersecurity threat investigations.

We have a case of an event where basically the 2 creators of KC came to our high school.

>> And we had a like exclusive module basically where we explored a bunch of like data like digital data of what people are looking through.

Like website, IP addresses their personal information for like a certain company like email addresses and like a machine names.

And we look through all that data and we try to figure out who like try to access certain types of information.

That's confidential and that they should be able to access and like what they're trying to do with a story here, bringing a custom game that's actually elections team to the students are fair.

Dale.

And so here they're learning about and elections board that is trying to secure, you know, the vote or trying to help people vote at the polls.

>> And they could see, OK, what are hackers trying to do to hack this this company or try to alter the votes and how is that working and how is that not working?

It's very tedious work.

Yes, but it's very rewarding because it is like it might take you a little while to learn this in bike, be able to understand it.

But what you do, it's a very rewarding.

It's very satisfying work to do.

I hope that students understand that what they're doing is real and it's really impactful.

>> They are using the actual query language they're using actual data.

They are doing everything that an actual threat analyst at Microsoft could do so if they realize that they're good at it and their brain works this way or they can train themselves to be a little better.

And I want them to know that they've got a job waiting for him.

Cyber is naturally a game, right?

There's winners and losers, right?

You lose when someone ransoms organization and you or ransom to the hospital, you can't provide care to people you when we are able to protect protect the people that you care about.

And so in every cybersecurity scenario, there's a story in this.

People whose lives or risk or there is it is organization you care about that at risk and we can really tease out those stories and you can put it in front of students, right?

And they can understand why we're doing what we're doing and who were trying to protect.

I think it makes it so much more appealing to them than just saying, okay, well, we're doing a bunch of ones and zeroes without any contacts, just a hands-on experience and be able to the kind of the trains you for, like the type of tone kind of going to.

And I and like put me ahead of some other people.

And I really like that as well.

Like just being able to party into this type of environment and been able to go through these mock trials of like what real life people do in this field is really for me.

When you have like teams like we're having a KC 7.

>> Being able to compete with one another and like make each other want to improve.

I think that is such a valuable thing that we're doing.

It's such a nice thing scrape.

I'm just enjoying myself.

>> The KC 7 Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to diversifying the cybersecurity