students' preparedness on ICT
Three schools proved themselves as top of the heap among fifteen teams participating in the IT Quiz Tournament, the 2nd Tertiary Schools ICT Quiz Show that was conducted last July 14.
Emerging as Champion was Ateneo de Zamboanga University (Zamboanga City) represented by Ronald A. Magcamig, Jerome K. Locson and Mark Jason T. Hariin. Aside from their individual cash prizes, they also won for their school one unit of HP personal computer set and a trophy from the Office of the Presidential Assistant of Northern Mindanao.
The 1st runner up was Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology (Iligan City), represented by Charlie Louie E. Luna, Malikey M. Maulana and Mark Oliver L. Ouana. They also received cash prizes, and for their school, a trophy and an HP scanner.
The only all-girls team from the University of Immaculate Conception (Davao City) bagged the 2nd runner up trophy and an HP printer for the school and cash prizes for representatives Mechelle A. Dimas, Mary Grace B. Ignacio and Katherine F. Dacanay. All three teams came along with their coaches Geoffrey M. Tablan of Ateneo de Zamboanga, Dante D. Dinawanao of MSU-IIT and Exander T. Barrios of UIC.
During the main round of easy, moderate and difficult levels, the fifteen teams were head to head with each other with almost all of them getting the questions correctly. An automated score board was continuously shuffling according to the school’s standing keeping both contestants and the audience updated.
Five schools went from the main round to the final round - Ateneo de Zamboanga, Liceo de Cagayan University of Cagayan de Oro, MSU-IIT of Iligan, Northern Mindanao Institute of Science and Technology of Butuan, and University of Immaculate Conception of Davao. These 5 teams had to go through another 3 grueling rounds to get bragging rights of being the best in their field. The final round, which was a right-minus-wrong match, was especially exciting as teams get deductions from their score if they gave an incorrect answer thus making it any school’s game.
Hosted by the Cagayan de Oro Chamber last July 14, 2007 at the SM Event Center, the 2nd ICT Quiz Show was conducted together with Sticky Media Solutions, Inc. and STI College Cagayan de Oro. The event was also in partnership with SM Cagayan de Oro, Accenture Phils., Global Chips Technologies, JobsDB and Mobile Philippines. BayanTel, Mindanao Goldstar Daily, MVP Digital Video and Samrey Printing Press also gave their support for the event.
Because of the responses from the various schools, the Cagayan de Oro Chamber has recently decided to make the ICT Quiz Show an annual event to be celebrated every ICT month of June, back to back with the Northern Mindanao Business Summit on ICT. As the contest showed the extent of just how capable and well-educated our college students are in the field of information technology, it is aimed to further propel the bid of Mindanao as an ICT hub of the Philippines.
