STEI ITB Won Third Place in Huawei ICT Competition Southern Pacific Region

TEI ITB has once again achieved an achievement, this time in the Huawei ICT Competition 2019, Southern Pacific Region. In the "Network Track" category, the team from STEI ITB, led by Michael Sihombing, NIM. 18115030; Bagas Purwa Sentika, NIM. 18116018, both from the Huawei ICT study program. Telecommunication Engineering 2011 – and Samuel Christian Coe, NIM. 13215033 from the study program Electrical Engineering 2011, meraih peringkat ketiga.

Meanwhile, Telkom University, Bandung, Indonesia, took first place, followed by the University of Malaya in second place. Nanyang Polytechnic won the "Cloud" category.

YB Puan Teo Nie Ching, Deputy Minister of Education of Malaysia, attended the announcement ceremony of the Winners of the Huawei ICT Competition Southern Pacific Region 2018/2019 at the University of Malaya, last April 11.

Huawei ICT Competition aims to address the gap between talent and demand in the ICT industry by collaborating with universities to produce potential and highly skilled professionals.

According to YB Puan Teo, "The ICT industry is very challenging, we need to ensure that today's youth are ready to face the challenges ahead."

"Collaboration between universities and industry is necessary for skills development and knowledge sharing. Malaysia and the world need quality graduates to meet industry needs," he explained.

According to him, the main goal of KPM in supporting collaborative efforts between academic institutions and industry is to ensure that graduates who are always ready for industry can be produced to fill high-skilled jobs.

Clearly, this effort gives students the opportunity to get a job after graduation and this is an important feature to produce marketable graduates.