r/netsecstudents

Hello everyone I’m starting a club at my college so our CIS and Cybersecurity majors have a group for students pursuing their certifications, such as compTIA or ccna etc. The basic idea is sort of like a book club. The group picks the certification we want to pursue, we assign “chapters” to have competed by the next meeting and everyone is able to study with the support of others in the group before we all go off to take our certification exam individually when we are ready for it. Afterwards we pick the next, so on and so forth. I’m hoping we will be able to source funding to help students with the cost of exams and also create labs that are able to be put on resumes as practical experience, but those are secondary and later on. I’m looking for advice and feedback on how to make this a successful program and what would be important to you if you were to take part in it. My primary motivation for forming this club is I personally do best when I have more structure when I study and I have had trouble in the past with certification prep since it’s self paced and open ended with no real “deadlines”. My hope is it can benefit myself and others since a large portion of us will be seeking these certifications anyways. Might as well increase our chance of success the best we can