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Speaker registration for BloomCON 2026 is now OPEN! If you are interested, email one of the Club Officers or join the Discord server for more information!
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About Us

Welcome to the official website of the Bloomsburg Cyber Defense Club (BCDC)! We are a student organization dedicated to learning about cybersecurity, ethical hacking, and technology as a whole. We welcome students of all skill levels who are interested in protecting digital systems and data. We also host our own annual Cybersecurity conference, BloomCON!


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Meetings

We meet weekly during the school year:

When: Wednesdays at 6:00 PM EST
Where: Bakeless Hall, Room 006

No prior experience is required to attend!
Note: to learn more about specific meetings or topics, please check our Discord server or any of our other social medias for additional information.

Resources

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Social Media

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Contact Us

Email: bloomu.cyber.defense@gmail.com

Position Name Email
Co-Presidents: Arleigh Shilling-Askew as81043@commonwealthu.edu
Ashley Chila akc12685@commonwealthu.edu
Treasurer: Josh Feudale jtf52491@commonwealthu.edu
Secretary: Nick Roditski nmr73188@commonwealthu.edu
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Polstra ppolstra@commonwealthu.edu
Administrative Assistants: Ian-Colin Lonesome icl25443@commonwealthu.edu
Tyler Burgess tlb19593@commonwealthu.edu

Credits and Acknowledgments

Massive thanks to the Alpaca developers for allowing me to run LLMs on-device; this site wouldn't have been possible without them.

Additional thanks to the W3Schools HTML / CSS Resource Archive - their documentation was invaluable during the site's design process.

Special shoutout to the Internet Archive for preserving so many of these backgrounds, animations, and icons, all for free. If you feel comfortable, donate now and help preserve the Internet!

Many thanks to the fine individuals hosting the 88x31 GIF megacollection - the remainder of this site's assets were preserved because of their dedication.

A very special "thank you" to Emily D., Steven B., and the rest of our wonderful alumni for their continued support of our organization. Your generosity means the world to us.

And lastly, thank you for being a member of BCDC! You make our mission worthwhile :]





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Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Privacy
The Bloomsburg Cyber Defense Club greatly respects your privacy. This policy explains how we handle information on this website.

Information Collection
We do not collect any personally identifiable through this website. The site is purely intended to be informational and entertaining by nature, and has no business in sharing or selling user data for any reason.

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Email Communications
Any emails sent to club addresses are kept confidential and used only for club purposes. Most club emails are deleted from our archives after a period of one year from the date of initial correspondence. If you would like us to remove any of your information, please send us an email with your name, email address, and any information you would like to see removed from our database.

Policy Changes
This policy may be updated periodically. If so, any changes will be posted here. Last updated: July 13, 2025.