Four Filipino students bagged five gold and six silver medals in the Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities (GITC) held last November 25 to 29 in Busan, South Korea.
In addition to their online course, students will undergo a three-month intensive bootcamp designed to give them a deeper analytics knowledge and skills. After finishing bootcamp, the graduates will be given preferred employment referral among SAS partner organizations in the fields of data science, computer analytics, and AI.
Graduates of the Fortinet Network Security Academy (FNSA) program will boost the Philippines’ long-term cyber defense capabilities against increasingly sophisticated threats.
Student teams from Adamson University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), and Asia Pacific College (APC) were recently proclaimed winners of the second Emerson Innovation Challenge.
The contest, which followed football in its previous runs from 2011-2014, now features robots shooting sepak takraw balls in a trajectory towards their respective goals.
The program, which began early 2018, was able to help hundreds of affected students pursue their studies. Notably, out of the 217 BS, 20 MS, and 10 Ph.D. scholars from the first batch of beneficiaries, 131 have already graduated of which three and nine earned Magna cum laude and Cum laude honors, respectively.
