The STEI-ITB Team Sweeps the Huawei ICT Competition 2019 National Final Round in Yogyakarta
The STEI-ITB team won first place in two categories at the Huawei ICT Competition 2019 National Final Round: network and cloud. The Huawei ICT Academy, located in the STEI-ITB Telematics Lab, was also named Best Huawei ICT Academy 2019, and was officially opened in 2011.
The first team to win first place in the network category consisted of three students and one instructor: Samuel Christian Coe (Electrical Engineering), Wilson Rustiandy (Telecommunication Engineering), Afif Tri Farhan (Telecommunication Engineering), and Rifqy Hakimi, ST, MT (lecturer at STEI ITB). UGM won second place, and Telkom University took third place. This ITB network team retained their title in the same category at the 2018 Huawei ICT Competition.
Meanwhile, for the cloud category, the first place was also won by the STEI ITB team consisting of 3 Telecommunication Engineering students (Bagas Purwa Sentika, Gelar Pambudi Adhiluhung, and Muhammad Nawaffarras Mahendika) and 1 instructor (Abdul Latif, ST, MT).
The Huawei ICT Competition 2019 National Final Round was held on November 27-28, 2019, at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Yogyakarta. The competition was held in two categories: network and cloud, and was attended by eight leading universities in Indonesia that have become Huawei partners in the Huawei ICT Academy, including: ITB, UI, UGM, ITS, UNPAD, Telkom University, UNDIP, and Multimedia Nusantara University.
The two winning ITB teams, namely the network and cloud teams, will later represent Indonesia together with the UGM (network) team at the Huawei ICT Competition 2019-2020 Regional Final-Southern Pacific which is planned to be held in the Philippines in March 2020 to compete for tickets to the Huawei ICT Competition 2019-2020 Global Final in China in May 2020.
To the STEI ITB Team, good luck in achieving brilliant achievements and bringing honor to Indonesia's name in the upcoming Huawei ICT Competition 2019-2020 Regional Final-Southern Pacific.