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Mapúa Sweeps CISCO Tilt ‘09

Consistent with its 84th year history of excellence, Mapúa Institute of Technology has again showed academic prowess when it emerged triumphant in the highly-coveted 4th Cisco Networking Academy National Skills Competition. In competition with more than 10 premier universities/institutes representing various clusters from all over the Philippines, Mapua grabbed two major group awards and three major individual awards in the competition held last March 26, 2009 at Holy Angel University, Pampanga.

Mapúa’s School of EECE students Melissa Mae Pasquin, John Millie Dingle, Jonathan Eric Defante and Edmund Ray Milanes were proclaimed as the National Champion in the Basic Category. The team received P15,000 cash prize plus Linksys Wireless Routers for each member. Another group from Mapua composed of Angelito Carpio, John Mark Cornilla, Lorenzo Raralio and Kenneth Garcia were the 1st Runner-up in the Advanced Category. The team received a P20,000 cash prize.

Engr. Wilheim John Sy mentored the Basic team while Engr. Emma Ruth Tiong mentored the Advanced team.

Furthermore, John Mark Cornilla, Kenneth Garcia and Edmund Ray Milanes received the following individual awards, respectively: Highest in Written Exam (Advanced), Runner-up in Written Exam (Advanced) and Runner-up in Written Exam (Basic). Melissa Mae Pasquin was also awarded the second Runner up in the Basic Written Category.

The annual Cisco Skills Competition is organized by the Cisco Networking Academy Core Council of the Philippines. It aims to promote, gauge, and improve the networking skills of Filipino networking students and enthusiasts. The Cisco Networking Academy is an internationally recognized IT educational initiative to develop graduates with networking and Internet skills and prepares its students for globally recognized industry standard certifications.