2025 VIRTUAL FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WEEKS

🚀 Fuel Your Summer with Future-Ready Skills
WASTC’s 2025 Virtual Faculty Development Weeks (vFDW) kick off June 2, and Week 1 is packed with high-impact workshops designed to energize your curriculum and inspire your students. This year’s lineup includes hands-on training in Python programming, network automation, real-time data analytics, offensive security tools, virtualization with Proxmox, and more. Whether you’re strengthening your technical skills or modernizing your instruction, there’s a workshop for you.

WEEK 1

June 2 – 6, 2025

Monday – Thursday: 9 AM to Noon and 1 PM to 4; Friday: morning 9 AM to Noon

1A: Introduction to Proxmox and Advanced Proxmox Labs

Presenter: Bill Saichek, NDG

1B: Pentesting with Sliver and other Offensive Security Tools

Presenter: Mike Masino, WASTC

1C: Python Essentials

Presenter: Roobed Trejo, OpenEDG

1D: Real-time Data Analytics with MongoDB and Tableau

Presenters: Daniel Coupal, Graeme Robinson & Faysal Shaarani, MongoDB

1E: Automation with Cisco IOS and Python for BEGINNERS

Presenter: Rick Graziani, Cisco

1F: IBM SkillsBuild Certificate Cybersecurity and Data Analytics

Presenter: Jen Lucia and others, IBM

WEEK 2

June 9 – 13, 2025

Monday – Thursday: 9 AM to Noon and 1 PM to 4; Friday: morning 9 AM to Noon

2A: Accelerating Cybersecurity for High-Speed Networks with P4 and DPDK

Presenters: Dr. Jorge Crichigno, Dr. Elie Kfoury, and Samia Choueiri, USC

2B: Attack on Mt. Kilimanjaro – Cybersecurity Resources and Strategies

Presenters: Irvin Lemus & Allyson Martinez, BACL

2C: AWS Gamification, Cloud Foundations, and AWS Academy

Presenters: Zeel Patel and Curtis Morton, AWS

2D: Fortinet Training Institute for Academia, Fortigate Administration

Presenter: Liang Wang, Fortinet

2E: Sam’s Cybersecurity Update for 2025

Presenter: Sam Bowne, WASTC

2F: Netlab for Newbies and Skills Builders

Presenter: Bill Saichek, BACCC

✅ Expert instructors
✅ Practical, real-world applications
✅ Fully online ($50 per week)

Join educators across the country who are investing in future-ready teaching strategies — and get a head start on a summer of learning and innovation!
🔗  https://www.engagez.net/vfdw2025 (Registration)