Congratulations to this year's winners!

Congratulations to the winning team from Mesa Community College.

Student Team Members: Jeff Jensen, Ivan Marquez, Dana Yanch

Faculty Coach: Mark Anderson

The winning team is seen here with Steve Phillips, Chief Information Officer for Avnet, Inc.

Thank you to our 2010 game sponsor:

Teams will connect and configure a wired computer network so that it is usable and productive to support a fictitious company's business demands. This exact business demand will be the temporary setup of a remote sales office containing network systems and services such as VOIP telephones, low voltage paging over IP, IP video surveillance, and windows networking services including exchange e-mail. This remote office expansion will be connected to the enterprise LAN/WAN network therefore layer 3 configurations will need to be implemented at remote office routers to allow and block network traffic appropriately. Each team will have the ability to earn bonus points by successfully intercepting other team's communications and hidden messages.

2-3 students

1 team per college - 6 teams total (Max 1 teams per college with additional teams placed on reserve hold - pending open slots based on maximum 6 allowed teams)

Registration Deadline:

March 2, 2010 – Registration is closed.

Disciplines / Skills Recommended:

• Computer Networking skills
• Integrated Services Routing skills
• Network Documentation skills

Event Description:

Part 1: Receive remote office initial documentation from enterprise IT administration and develop implementation plan

Each team will receive a real world temporary remote sales office installation scenario in the form of a "service order" from their enterprise IT administration. This service order will describe the networking systems and services requirements for this sales office. With this information, students will work together to review their installation plans and implement them into the remote office environment. The initial partially completed plan will consist of an incomplete network diagram, an incomplete systems summary, and an internal Service Order explaining what systems to setup for the temporary office.

A network diagram will be provided to each team on game day and will only contain current enterprise system information. Each team will use this information to expand the diagram to contain their remote sales office pre-implementation data. This diagram will be finalized and judged as part of grading criteria.

A systems summary document will be provided to each team on game day and will only contain current enterprise system information. Each team will use this information to expand the summary to contain their remote sales office pre-implementation data. The finalized summary will be submitted to IT administration and must include but not be limited to network configuration information such as the project name, project engineers involved, project systems implemented, all systems IP addressing data, VLAN data, DHCP data, computer identification information, computer software information, systems bandwidth allocation information, configuration credentials for each system, and completion summary of systems successful and non-successful operation and notes.

Note: The system completion summary will be completed after systems are implemented.

Note: The service order will only be provided to each team to explain what systems will need to be setup in order to achieve completion. This will not be needed for modification or completion presentation to judges.

Part 2: Installation of Network and Systems Equipment

Following completion of network diagram and systems summary document, each team will setup physical equipment and connect to wired network. (Diagram and summary completion recommended but not required to start this step)

The following systems will be physically setup and connected to wired network:

• Integrated Services Router
• IP Paging Extender, Speaker, and Power Supply
• IP Surveillance Camera
• Workstation and Software

Part 3: Configure Network and Systems Equipment

Teams will implement configurations per service order, network diagram and systems summary. All systems should be fully operational as they will be tested for enterprise connectivity and appropriate implementation (industry best practice) by judges.

The following equipment will be configured:

• Integrated Services Router
• VOIP Telephone
• IP Paging Extender, Speaker, and Power Supply
• IP Surveillance Camera
• Workstation and Software

Part 4: Final testing and documentation

Teams will test to ensure that systems are configured according to the service order specifications, network diagram, and systems summary.

After testing, the network diagram and systems summary will be revised (if needed) to reflect the final implementation and prepared for enterprise IT administration.

At this time the bonus objectives may be attempted and will be judged according to grading criteria.

Judging

Judges will test remote sales office systems using enterprise admin IT equipment. Although systems will be installed per service order instructions and per industry best practice, implementation efficiency, operational efficiency, network systems quality, and network security measuring will be performed and will directly affect graded criteria. >/p>

Judging on all criteria will be performed at end of game and per event schedule. Each team will need to have team leader readily available during judging timeslot and will be responsible for demonstrating bonus objective completion. Bonus objectives will only be judged at this time so changes made during event by opposing teams to their systems may defer initial objective successions.

Technical Parameters:

• All traffic within the competition area will be monitored.
• Students may bring hand-written notes, reference books and/or instructional guides to the game.
• Documentation for proprietary equipment will be made available at time of game.
• Whether negative or positive, all decisions contribute to ITs operational characteristics. Awards will be decided based upon the operational impact of those decisions.

Schedule:
Game Day

• 7am - 7:30am - Registration
• 7:30 - 12:30pm - Event performance and completion
• 11:30am - 1pm - "On the Go" lunch
• 12:30 - 3:30pm - Judges test and evaluate security configurations - (judging 6 teams max @ 30 min is 3hr)
• 3:30pm - 4pm - Judges calculate scores and identify winning team

Awards:

Each team member will win a $1000 scholarship

Equipment Requirements for Students:

• Hand-written notes, reference books and/or instructional guides.

Equipment Requirements for Venue:

• Internet Access for contestant and judges use

Equipment Requirements for Industry:

• Router / firewall device (Premise One)
• Category 5 or higher RJ45 Ethernet patch cables (Premise One)
• VOIP Telephone (Premise One)
• Low Voltage IP Paging Equipment (Premise One)
• IP surveillance camera (Premise One)
• Workstation Computer (Avnet)
• Central IT computer (Avnet)
• Central IT Router (Premise One)
• Central IT VOIP system (Premise One)
• Central IT paging system (Premise One)
• USB stick memory device

FAQs:

For more information, e-mail AvnetTechGames@Avnet.com or call (480) 643-7657.

Scholarships and honorariums provided by Carstens Family Funds and administered by the Arizona Technology Council.