On Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th August 2025, iCSS had a stand as part of the 2025 bOing! Festival, the University of Kent’s international family arts festival.
iCSS PhD student Temesgen Kitaw Damenu, who is working on cyber security educational games for children, and iCSS Director Professor Shujun Li, who is also iCSS’s School Outreach Lead and Temesgen’s principal supervisor, manned the stand on the two days. They helped showcase many cyber security educational materials used in past activities, such as the following:
- selected art works from the 2024 “Creative Cyber” Exhibition and the 2023-24 iCSS-KMCC-KMCS3 CyberAnything Competition,
- some materials used in the 2024 iCSS-KMCC-KMCSN-KMCS3 Cyber Security Awareness Month,
- an animated video “How to be a cyber superhero” for engaging children towards a cyber security career pathway,
- an online safety book Ready, Get Set, Connect! produced by Cyberlite Books Pte. Ltd. for iCSS,
- some cyber security awareness comic booklets produced by Xcapism Learning Ltd for iCSS,
- an article “How to Beat the Cybercriminals and Stay Safe Online” iCSS did for Futurum Careers (a free online resource and magazine for introducing 14-19-year-olds worldwide to different scientific disciplines), and
- some drawings and handwritten questions from school pupils who participated in different school outreach events of iCSS.
They talked with parents and children who visited the stand, and distributed copies of online safety book Ready, Get Set, Connect!, the comic booklets and the Futurum Careers article.
The event helped connect iCSS with local families and children and gather useful feedback on future cyber security awareness, education, research and wider impact activities. We look forward to seeing more at the next year’s bOing! Festival!