BOISE STATE STUDENTS PLACE FIRST AT NATIONAL TECH CONFERENCE

Two students from Boise State University’s networking, operations and information systems department in the College of Business and Economics won first place at the eighth annual Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP) national conference at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., the last week of March.

Josh Saari and Ryan Smith took first place for the AITP Student Chapter Web Site (http://aitp.bsu.net). The two also took third place in the Network Design Competition.

Additionally, several students sat for and passed certification exams at the conference, specifically the ICCP (Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals, Core test (ACP - Associate Computing Professional designation). They include Bobby Martin, Buck Watia and Matt Goodale. Goodale was also recognized for earning one of the three highest scores on the Web Developer speciality exam. Other student competitors included Jackie Girard and Gladys Li.

Boise State has an active AITP student chapter led by adviser Sharon Tabor. This was the second year a Boise State team has placed in the national competition. The conference brings together technology students from universities all over the country for networking, career advice from technology leaders and competitions. In addition to Boise State, other universities competing included Purdue, Texas Tech, University of Michigan and more.

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