IJIS Institute to Present High School Workshop on Virtual Crime

April 5, 2012 - PRLog -- The IJIS Institute announces that it is a workshop organizer of the sixth annual Science, Technology & Engineering Day presented by The George Washington University Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Va., in partnership with Loudoun County Public Schools.  At the April 13 event, approximately 150 Loudoun County high school students will participate in 10 interactive workshops highlighting areas of academic study, research, and careers in the high-demand fields of science, technology, and engineering.  

Dr. Brian Regli, CEO of Drakontas and an expert in the area of virtual crime, will lead the IJIS Institute workshop, “Crime in the Virtual World—Identification and Protection.”  The interactive workshop will engage students in learning about virtual crimes such as identity theft and money laundering.  Small groups of students will search the Web for clues to unravel virtual crimes and learn to protect themselves from hackers.  

In his presentation at the IJIS Institute’s 2012 Winter Briefing, Dr. Regli declared that virtual crime “is the wave of the future. This is where the bad guys have gone.”

The workshops will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.  Following is a complete list of the Science, Technology & Engineering Day workshops and their organizers:

Bridges, Earthquakes, and Tsunamis
GW Civil and Environmental Engineering

Car Crashes and Injuries—How Accident Analyses and Computer Simulation Help Design Safer Cars
GW National Crash Analysis Center

Crime in the Virtual World—Identification and Protection
The IJIS Institute

First Responders and Hazardous Materials
Center for Preparedness and Resilience

The Future of Energy
GW Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Greater than the Sum of its Parts: Integrating a Robotic System
GW Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Herbal Medicinal Compounding
Shenandoah University, Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy

The Science of Accident Investigation: NTSB and TWA Flight 800
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Training Center

Technology and the World of Nursing
GW School of Nursing


Drakontas delivers collaboration tools to the criminal justice, warfighter, infrastructure protection and transportation communities through its innovative software and services platform.  The company’s mission is to help teams and organizations use these collaboration tools to make decisions more quickly and allocate resources more efficiently. For more information, visit www.drakontas.org.

The GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus, established in Loudoun County in 1991, is a robust center for innovative research, graduate education and regional corporate partnerships. As the university's science and technology campus, it hosts a dozen centers of excellence in critical areas such as energy science and technology, transportation safety and high performance computing. The GW Virginia Science and Technology Campus also combines its research excellence with more than 20 exceptional graduate degree and certificate programs in business, education, and engineering and unique undergraduate programs in the health sciences. GW has been educating Virginians for more than 50 years, beginning in Hampton Roads in 1958 and expanding its service across the Commonwealth, notably in Arlington, Alexandria and Ashburn. For more information on the Virginia Science and Technology Campus, visit www.gwvirginia.gwu.edu.

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The IJIS Institute unites the private and public sectors to improve critical information sharing for those who protect and serve our communities. The Institute provides training, technology assistance, national scope issue management, and program management services to help government fully realize the power of information sharing. Founded in 2001 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation with national headquarters on the George Washington University Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, the IJIS Institute has grown to nearly 200 member and affiliate companies across the United States. For more information, visit www.ijis.org.