Students who are interested in the opportunity (or parents who want to ship their teens overseas for a week) have until Jan. 25 to submit an application. About 300 participants from Australia, Canada, the European Union, and the United States will attend the event.

"Children today are part of a new Internet generation that grew up playing, communicating and learning in cyberspace," NCMEC President Ernie Allen said in a press release. "It's important to solicit their input in our effort to protect them from predators who may try to victimize them online."

The conference will be hosted by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, in partnership with the Virtual Global Task Force, an international law enforcement that fights victimization of children.

"This event is not about talking to young people. It is not even about thinking how to best protect them. It is about listening to them," CEOPC chief Jim Gamble said. NCMEC will organize an April meeting with the selected students to prep them for their journey.