A student team from Central TAFE’s Computer Systems Diploma course recently represented Western Australia in the inaugural Cisco Networking Academy, Australia/New Zealand Networking Skills Competition.
The competition involved a single team from each Australian State and New Zealand and was conducted simultaneously at all locations on 15th October 2008.
Central TAFE Cisco Networking Academy Coordinator, Aubrey Adams, said securing a place in the event was significant.
“It was a win for the team just to gain the right to represent their State and participate in this competitive Trans-Tasman event - they first had to beat local teams from university and other training and education institutions”, he said.
“They came third in the competition, which reflected their high level technical networking troubleshooting skills and ability to work well as a team to remotely resolve extremely demanding network problems set up on the Cisco Systems networking test-lab in Sydney.”
The Central TAFE team was comprised of students Matthew Barnby, Matthew Hynes and Nick May.
On Wednesday 12 November, Mike Kneebone, WA Education Account Manager for Cisco Systems presented the three students with iPods as prizes. They also won LinkSys wireless routers for their home networks and networking lab equipment for the College.
Central TAFE has been a lead WA Cisco Networking Academy since 1998 and delivers Cisco Certified Networking Associate, Cisco Certified Networking Professional, Network Security, Wireless LAN and IP Telephony training within its Diploma of Computer Systems course.