Docent Institute (Docent) is a 501(c)(3) registered charitable non-profit educational institution based in Iowa. Its mission is “Cybersecurity and STEM education, inclusion, and outreach for the benefit of society.”
Docent organizes cybersecurity/STEM camps for K-12 students, cybersecurity career days for high school students and competitions for college students. Docent hosts the premier Midwest annual cybersecurity conference, CornCon, held in the fall in Davenport, IA. Docent provides college scholarships, mentoring, apprenticeships/internships, career services and performs other public outreach related to cybersecurity education and career development, advancing technology, and the ethical use of technology. Docent also works with IEEE to develop industry standards around the ethical application of technology. Current projects include developing a process for evaluating the trustworthiness of news sources, and a standard on the ethical use of AI.
