A Kenyan University student is among African entrants who won in a networking competition organized by American computer accessories company Cisco.
The Kenyatta University Bsc. Computer Science and Physics student, Charles Mutua (23) emerged the first runners-up in the competition.
He will fly the country’s flag in a five-day study trip to the United States which will start this Saturday.
Mutua was among20 African entrants in the 2017 edition of the yearly competition dubbed Netriders.
The competition entailed designing and configuring a computer network in a real life and then virtually presenting the work to IT players through teleconferencing.
Together with Hamza Jebbour from Morocco, the two African finalists will take part in the one-week study to learn from the best technologist in the world.
David Brunei, the Cisco manager in-charge of the East Africa market said according to Daily Nation: “The two competed with over 15,400 entrants globally to win a study trip prize to Cisco headquarters in San Jose, United States.”
During the one week study period, they will visit Stanford University, the headquarters of Google and Facebook.
Mutua in an interview at his Wote home in Makueni County said that, “This is the first time that I’ll be travelling out of the country and this partly explains the excitement.”
“We expect to meet and interact with high level engineers of the various technology giants who will share about their daily experiences interacting with networking devices, developing and implementing new networking solutions.”