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By APD writer Melo M. Acuña
MANILA, April 10 (APD) – Six students from Mindanao State University’s Institute of Information Technology and University of Southeastern Philippines will leave for Kuala Lumpur early Wednesday morning to compete with other Information Technology students from New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore on Thursday, April 11.
The selection process began as early as last year. Their universities agreed to sign-up as Huawei ICT Academy with their respective professors trained under Huawei’s trainers’ program led by a Malaysian instructor from the company’s pool of academicians.
Immediately after a professor has been certified, the University will be registered as Huawei ICT Academy. Huawei will then launch their roadshow to promote its ICT Academy and the Huawei ICT Competition. Students were asked to register and take an online mock exam. The top 40 students qualified for the Huawei local ICT competition. The top three students, all of them in their college senior year from the two universities were chosen to represent the Philippines and their University in the Huawei Regional ICT Competition.
The six students will be accompanied by two professors from their universities.
Mr. Guo Zhi, Vice President of Huawei Philippines, the Huawei ICT Academy and the ICT Competition is their way of showing their appreciation to the country as well as in support of the government’s and the Department of Information and Communication Technology’s programs to train and develop local ICT talents.
The local competition will help students into Engineering and Technical courses to hone their skills.
“We know that the Filipinos are one of the best professional workers but the challenge is few universities and colleges provide hands-on training in telecommunications and ICT,” Mr. Guo said.
He added focusing early in local talent development, especially in the ICT industry will contribute to the growth of the country’s economy.
“Philippine graduates can easily find work not only locally but globally because of the new skills and competence obtained from Huawei Certification Courses,” he concluded.
Winners in the Kuala Lumpur competition will contend with other regional champions in an international contest at Huawei head office in the People’s Republic of China in the next few months.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
