Malaysian Students Rule Cisco's Asia Pacific Skills Competition

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Overview:

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(R) Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009, an annual skills competition organized by the Cisco Networking Academy(R), 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 TelePresence(TM) and Cisco WebEx(TM),
which provided a powerful collaborative platform for the students to test
their skills.
--  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.
--  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.

Tags / Keywords:

Cisco, Networking Academy, Skills, NetRiders, Asia Pacific, Malaysia, TelePresence, WebEx

Links / URLs:

--  Cisco Networking Academy Program
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/index.html

--  Cisco TelePresence
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns669/networking_solutions_solution_
segment_home.html


--  Cisco WebEx
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10352/index.html

--  Cisco Asia Pacific NetRiders 2009 Video
http://www.cisco.com/asiapac/academy/files/NetridersFinal_06_11_2009_2.wmv

Quotes:

--  Soon Sing Tee, Chamal Sapumohotti, Ravan Nagalingam, Team Malaysia
"We felt that definitely having completed Cisco CCNA certification helped
us in our preparation for the Asia Pacific NetRiders competition. Our
instructor, Mr. KC Khor from Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, also spent
the last two months preparing us intensively for the competition, so this
win is as much for him as for us. Thank you, Cisco, for a great experience
over TelePresence. It was really enjoyable competing against so many
countries, and we are extremely excited about the study trip to the United
States!"

--  Sandy Walsh, head of Education and Corporate and Social Responsibility
for Cisco in Asia Pacific
"We have held this skills competition at both the national and regional
levels for several years now, and every year we are amazed to see the
talent emerging from countries that you would expect to be disadvantaged
from a broadband and ICT point of view. The teams from Sri Lanka and
Bangladesh did incredibly well to finish second and third, and this
reinforces our feeling that education and the Internet are truly two of the
great equalizers in life."

--  Anne Abraham, managing director, Cisco Malaysia
"I am so proud of the team from the Multimedia University. Last year, the
team from Malaysia came in second, but this year, we have gone one better.
We have placed an intense focus over the past few years in developing the
Cisco Networking Academy in the country, working closely with the
government, the schools and the community to ensure that Malaysia has the
talent pool necessary for a knowledge economy. This win shows that we have
made great progress."

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