14 DAY TRIAL // Red Hat has announced the second regional Red Hat Challenge, a knowledge-based technology competition aimed at students from China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan.
The competition is set to begin on November 2nd, 2012, and the top two finalists, from each country, will get to travel to Beijing for the final round held on December 15th, 2012.
This year’s theme is “For the students, by the students.” The platform that will be used to test the competitors has been designed and built (on OpenShift, Red Hat’s free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS)) by a student, Lim Guo Wei, from Singapore Polytechnic.
All full-time students from any university, polytechnic or private school in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan are eligible for participation.
The students will be tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration, network administration, security administration and visualization tasks.
“Following the positive response from our inaugural Red Hat Challenge last year, we’ve decided to scale up and open the contest to more students from the region” said Sachin Shridhar, senior director, Services, Red Hat Asia Pacific.
“This year’s theme of ‘For the students, by the students’ is an extension of collaborative innovation. We believe that this framework, which is built on sharing ideas and driving innovation amongst users, goes beyond developers, IT professionals and enterprises. We want to show that students also play an important role in Open Source communities,” continued Shridhar.
The regional Red Hat Challenge includes three stages:
Stage 1 (2 November 2012) – Conducted online, this speed round would require each student to answer up to 118 multiple choice questions, on over 20 topics, in 60 minutes.
Stage 2 (12 November 2012) – Each of the top 20 students will have an interview with a Red Hat Certified Instructor.
Stage 3 (15 December 2012) – The top two students from each country will travel to Beijing to compete with one another in an open book competition on virtualization.
More information about the challenge can be found on the official website.