The Indianola Community School District has updated their curriculum to include more computer science classes to younger students, as Governor Kim Reynolds noted in her “Condition of the State Address” earlier this week, and has added another class to keep up with the changing times: cybersecurity.

Superintendent Art Sathoff tells KNIA News Indianola High School the new class is part of a national curriculum change.

“The cybersecurity class is actually a part of the Project Lead the Way Curriculum, which is a national pre-engineering curriculum. We are taking a shift away from some of the other upper-level courses we have such as aerospace engineering, and to where there really are more job opportunities and we think that this will be a growing field that our students will have interest in.”

Sathoff also said that the district is currently undergoing training to be more accessible with online classes and training students to be as prepared as possible for the current job market.