♪ >> Middle school students in Lexington spent a week having fun with stem.

That's science, technology, engineering and math, specifically cybersecurity.

It was all part of a week-long camp.

The partnership between the KC 7 Foundation allowed students to work closely with 2 of the best cyber analysts in the world together, they're proving that education matters.

>> We have basically take middle elementary students and put them in an environment for them to learn about cyber in cyber is all about security.

I'm keeping your private data from the bad guys.

>> So we've been doing investigations and for example, in the first day we did an investigation about a break-in into a museum that we have to look at artifacts and find out who did this.

And right now we're currently doing is we're in the hacking scandal like a group called Lock My Door, trying to restore all appliances and earn the most money to win.

And we have different roles like investigated case manager and and now CFO.

So I'm a CFO and I handle all the money.

And my analyst, they coach to find like information for the case manager.

So the case manager, they thought a packet about big answers at the analyst.

Find on the computer and my investigative this financial mission about that coming out.

>> We're hoping that this can't will open up their their minds so that they could see them sales operating in these specific roles.

My roll up.

My role is currently investigator.

My job is to investigate the artifacts and try and put criminals in jail.

I can also complete puzzles.

>> To earn money.

And I can also negotiate with the lack bite scammer to lower our price of the money that we need to pay to get our systems back online.

I really big interest because it's very interesting to know how the people who run these hacking scandals and also how can we I learned here is that.

Always make of what you put out on the Internet.

Some always careful what I did.

I my parents are >> our campers.

>> Are learning something they're not only about cyber, but there learning transferable communication.

Leadership steals they're working as cyber They are exploring teamwork, collaboration.

So the camp is providing a holistic for the summer for kids who normally would not have this opportunity.

It would not have had the exposure of cyber of having its ibis advocate.

>> Those kids are going around the world one day.

This is the camps second year running last year, 35 kids participated this year.

The class grew to 50.

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