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TAGAYTAY CITY, Philippines—(UPDATE) Information technology students from AMA Computer College East Rizal won this year's Cisco skills competition that pitted top student teams in a challenge that tested their knowledge in basic networking.

It was the first time that the school participated in the annual Cisco Skills Competition, where six teams from different universities in the country qualified as finalists.

The winners are Rusette Cu, Levi Edrian Santos, Vincent Floyd Rosacay and Delmer Galinato. They were coached by Natalia Estelon.

In an interview after the awarding of prizes, the winners unanimously declared that they had not expected to win.

"But we're happy," Santos said in Filipino.

"I believe we got lucky," added Floyd.

The competition involves a written and a practical networking skills challenge that required student teams to solve network problems under time pressure. The students were given around 45 minutes to figure out a way how to "configure" Cisco routers to address a specific networking problem.

The AMA students got the highest score in the practical networking skills challenge. The second prize went to the Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila, while the third place went to another AMA Computer College in Davao.

"It's a task-oriented, problem solving competition," said Geraldo Talisic, president of the Cisco Core Council of the Philippines, an organization overseeing the implementation of Cisco Networking Academy program in the Philippines. It is mainly composed of teachers representing different academies throughout the Philippines.

The competition also aims to validate the "effectiveness" of the Cisco Networking, added Talisic.

This year's other finalists were System Plus College Foundation, University of Cebu, Mapua Institute of Technology School of IT in Makati, and AMA Computer College Davao.

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