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MATC STUDENTS
WINS SECOND PLACE IN NATIONAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION
Madison Area Technical College
(MATC) students won second place in a network design competition at the
seventh Annual National Collegiate Conference of the Association of Information
Technology Professionals (AITP). Eleven students from the MATC chapter
of AITP attended the conference, held in Kansas City, Missouri, in early
April.
Fifty-two teams competed in the network design competition which gave
students three hours to design a wide area network for a large company
operating sites in four cities. MATC students competed in two teams-one
freshmen and one senior. The senior team-Jason Dahlby [Middleton]*, Debrah
Morris [Verona] and Andrew Moser [Baraboo] won second place. Freshman
team contestants included Serafin Ortega [Janesville] and Eric Niebuhr
[Deerfield]. MATC network instructor, Craig Newman, coached the teams.
MATC students also made a strong showing in the Webmaster, JAVA and Visual
Basic competitions. John Sadorf [Baraboo] and Mike Payne [Madison] competed
in the JAVA programming competition. Valdet Zuteja [Madison] and Sulaiman
Jrar [Madison] participated in the Visual Basic competition. Xavier Casto
[Madison] won second place in the scavenger hunt and Sandra Shalkham [Madison],
president of the local AITP, also organized the Madison contingent and
participated in the conference. Faculty advisor for the MATC chapter,
Peter Niewold, accompanied the students at the conference.
The conference brings together information technology students from two-year
and four-year colleges from around the country as well as some institutions
from as far away as Sweden. Keynote speakers, presenters and sponsors
included chief information officers and other information technology and
administrative personnel from top U.S. companies, such as Kraft, Wal-Mart,
State Farm Insurance, Federal Express and Gateway.
Networking students at MATC are trained in a state-of-the-art facility
funded in part by a major grant from Cisco Systems, as well as grants
from local employers including the Alliant Energy Foundation, Berbee Information
Networks Corporation, Pleasant Company and Qualitemps.
One of the largest of the Wisconsin Technical College System's 16 colleges,
MATC provides a comprehensive curriculum of technical, liberal arts and
science, adult basic education and life enrichment studies and activities,
as well as customized employee training. With training in more than 100
career programs, the college awards associate degrees, vocational diplomas
and certificates, and offers non-degree courses. MATC serves all or parts
of 12 counties located in south-central Wisconsin and offers instruction
through five campuses and other locations throughout the district.
* Cities given after student
names indicate either the student's high school or the city in which the
student currently reside.
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April 30, 2002
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