Innovation Tech Academy Corporation

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Your donation will help fund our CyberHoops summer program that teaches Miami-Dade middle and high school students cybersecurity skills, through an innovative basketball  curriculum. For the past three years, the CyberHoops program has been funded by a federal grant (GenCyber/National Security Agency/National Science Foundation). This year, the grant was frozen by the government and we are in need of funding to continue the camp for summer 2026.  Visit our Instagram page to view videos and images of our camps!


About Us

Innovation Tech Academy (ITA) is a non-for-profit organization dedicated to education through technology, focusing on the area of cybersecurity. Our main educational program is CyberHoops, funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency through a GenCyber grant, which provides cybersecurity experiences to middle and high-school students in South Florida through an innovative basketball curriculum during the summer. 

The first CyberHoops camp took place in the Summer of 2023 with 20 students at a school in Miami-Dade. By the summer of 2024 it had grown to 90 students at three Miami Dade County Public Schools and in the summer of 2025 we became a subawardee through a coalition model created by Florida International University, where we hosted a middle school and a high school camp at two schools from MDCPS. We have also partnered up with MDCPS for the past three years through an annual Affiliating Agreement. Funds obtained through Give Miami Day would allow ITA to continue providing CyberHoops summer programs.



Each student at the CyberHoops camp received a Caesar Cipher Decoder medallion to learn about the basics of encryption and cyber defense.

Why Donate?

  • Cybersecurity education is necessary since we live in a digital society and online safety should be a priority. 

  • Increase minority representation in the workforce since presently only 4% Hispanic, 9% African-American and 24% Women.

  • Cybersecurity education can be life changing since professional jobs are the fastest growing career field with an average of 31% growth until 2029 and an average starting salary between $90,000.00 to $160,000.00.



The winners of the 2025 Middle School CyberHoops Cyber Basketball Competition.

Tax Deductible

Innovation Tech Academy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Your contribution is tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.


High Schoolers wear hats to explore the roles of various hackers, which represent distinct approaches to cybersecurity. 




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Mission

Help us support our South Florida students by providing them with much needed cybersecurity experiences. Funds will be used to provide free cybersecurity courses, lesson plans, textbooks, resources and experiences. Innovation Tech Academy (ITA) is a non-for-profit that provides technology-related online courses to students in the areas of cybersecurity, digital citizenship, internet of things, ethical hacking and other technology related areas.

ITA’s mission is to create user-friendly technology courses that teach and impact young adults from various minority backgrounds and underserved communities, providing much needed exposure and awareness at a young age to motivate and inspire academic and professional pathways.

Organization Data

Summary

Organization name

Innovation Tech Academy Corporation

other names

CyberHoops

Tax id (EIN)

82-0767888

Address

1030 SW 44TH AVE
MIAMI, FL 33134

Phone

305-527-1324

Email

pons@innovationtechacademy.org

Website

https://innovationtechacademy.org/

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