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Malaysian Students Rule Cisco's Asia Pacific Skills Competition

A team of three students from the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, in Malaysia, beat 15 other teams from around the Asia Pacific region to top Cisco® Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009, an annual skills competition organized by the Cisco Networking Academy®, a comprehensive e-learning program that enables students to develop valuable information and communications technology (ICT) skills for increased access to opportunities in the global economy.

Highlights / Key Facts: 

  • ·        This was the second year that Asia Pacific NetRiders was organized over Cisco TelePresenceTM and Cisco WebEx TM, which provided a powerful collaborative platform for the students to test their skills.
  • ·  Malaysia2009team       The winning team from Malaysia, Soon Sing Tee, Chamal Sapumohotti, Ravan Nagalingam, won an all-expenses-paid trip to the United States.
  • ·        Team Malaysia, comprising different participants, placed second to a team from China in last year's competition.
  • ·        This year's competition featured 16 countries, each sending the winners of its national NetRiders competition. More than 4,000 students competed for their respective national titles.
  • ·        The competition involves two levels of testing. The first level is a multiple-choice online examination, and the second level involves an online test using Packet Tracer 5.2 (network configuration through computer simulation).
  • ·        The competition is open to students from more than 1,390 Networking Academy venues across the region.
  • ·        In second and third place, respectively, were the teams from the Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology and the American International University – Bangladesh, demonstrating the incredible diversity of talent in the Cisco Networking Academy.
  • ·  Cambodia2009team       Participating in their second Asia Pacific NetRiders, Team Cambodia travelled to Bangkok, Thailand, in order to compete over the Cisco TelePresence platform. Their trip was sponsored by Cisco Thailand and Cisco's channel partners in Cambodia: Trust Gobal Service, CAMPURA and CISWORK.

     

     

    


Read all about the National NetRiders Events for 2009 

Date Event
14th March 2009 Flag_Thailand  Thailand (On-line Skills Competition series)
26th March 2009 Flag_Philippines  Philippines NetRiders
28th March 2009 Flag_Malaysia  Malaysia NetRiders
1st-3rd April 2009 Flag_Thailand  Thailand (Boot Camp & Lab Competition)
6th July 2009 Flag_Taiwan  Taiwan NetRiders
16th July 2009 Flag_Korea  Korea NetRiders
14th July & 8-10th Aug 2009 Flag_China  China NetRiders
1st Aug 2009 Flag_Bangladesh  Bangladesh NetRiders
25th Aug 2009 Flag_HongKong  Hong Kong &  Flag_Macau Macau NetRiders
18th Sep 2009 Flag_SriLanka  Sri Lanka NetRiders
25th Sep 2009 Flag_Australia   Flag_NewZealand  ANZ Regional NetRiders
2nd Oct 2009 Flag_Vietnam  Vietnam NetRiders
9th Oct 2009 Flag_Singapore  Singapore NetRiders
15th Oct 2009 Flag_Indonesia  Indonesia NetRiders
24th Oct 2009 Flag_Cambodia  Cambodia NetRiders
26th Oct 2009 Flag_India  India NetRiders
29th October 2009

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World Skills Event for 2009 

logo-worldskillsEvent: World Skills Competition
Date: September 2nd - 5th
Location: Calgary, Canada
Website: http://www.worldskillsportal.com
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A big CONGRATULATIONS to our very own Networking Academy student who took out the Gold medal in skill #39 IT PC/Network Support in the World Skills 2009 Competition, Tan Thiam Shui, from Nanyang Polytechnic.

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Find out more about the next World Skills Competition in London, 2011 by visiting http://www.worldskillslondon2011.com 

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