ShCT studes win in Huawei National Final Round, to compete in China
Three (3) ShCT IT students—Aysha Khamis Al-Hosnia, Afraa Saif Khalfan Al Kaabi, and Marwan Abdullah Ali Al Saifi—won in the Huawei ICT Skill Competition-Middle East National Final Round held at Higher College of Technology (HCT) in Muscat on November 20, 2017.
More than 80 students from different colleges in the Sultanate of Oman joined the preliminary competition that was conducted online on October 24, 2017.
After the preliminary competition, they were given a three-day workshop at Musanna College of Technology on November 12 to 14 where Huawei representatives conducted a seminar and laboratory training using Enterprise Network Simulation Platform (ENSP) to prepare them for the National Final Round.
Out of more than 80 qualifiers for the National Final Round, the top six students qualified to the International Final Round that will be held at the end of December 2017 in Shenzhen, China, where they would compete as a group with other National Final winners from 9 countries from the Middle East.
Networking Section Head Mr. Syed Mehr and IT Lecturers Mr. Rajesh Kala and Mr. Bernard Agbuya coached the students for the preliminary round.