Please submit information about your Authorized Instructors

Before we get into the weekly rankings report, I have an IMPORTANT NOTICE for you. We have not yet factored in points for each team's Authorized Instructor(s). To receive these points, you must email us the name of your team coach if he/she was an Authorized Instructor when you registered for the Competition, and the names of any other team members who have become certified as IC3 Authorized Instructors since you began participating in the Competition. Please send this information to ic3worldcup at certiport . com.

Remember, just having a team coach who began the Competition as an Authorized Instructor gives you 300 points automatically, and any teachers who become Authorized Instructors during the Competition earn you 100 more points.


North, South & Central America

1. Colegio Boston de Negocios (Costa Rica)
2. Centro Educativo Grupo CEDVA (Mexico)
3. Digital Roadrunners (USA)
4. IBEC TLC (Ecuador)
5. NHS IT Eagles (USA)

Asia-Pacific - Top 5 teams this week are all from JAPAN

1. 日本工学院専門学校
2. 国際情報ビジネス専門学校
3. オデッセイ テスティング センター 有楽町店
4. 専修学校 国際電子ビジネス専門学校
5. ニューホライズンジャパン CDトレーニングセンター

Europe, Middle East & Africa - Top 5 teams are all from LIBYA

1. Alshamelah-ATC-ACA
2. LISCO - Libyan Iron and Steel Company
3. Alwafa High Institute
4. ALbedaya For Training & IT
5. Alshamelah Team

Next week is the American holiday Thanksgiving and everyone at Certiport will be feasting with our families at home, so I won't be able to post the top teams next week. I bet some teams would really like to see their names on here though, so I am going to post the top 25 teams just to make up for not posting next week...

1. Colegio Boston de Negocios (Costa Rica)
2. Alshamelah-ATC-ACA (Libya)
3. LISCO - Libyan Iron and Steel Company (Libya)
4. Alwafa High Institute (Libya) (Wow, where did you guys come from?!)
5. ALbedaya For Training & IT (Libya)
6. Centro Educativo Grupo CEDVA (Mexico)
7. Digital Roadrunners (USA)
8. Alshamelah Team (Libya)
9. Alshamelah-ATC-GOV (Libya)
10. IBEC TLC (Ecuador)
11. Technoplus Toumba (Greece)
12. Technokids Technoplus Agia Paraskevi (Greece)
13. KEK PARTHENON (Greece)
14. KEK PAIDEIA (Greece)
15. KEK MIT (Greece)
16. Net Plus Studies (Greece)
17. OTE Academy (Greece)
18. Master Academy - CT (Italy)
19. Abn mandor For education GOV (Libya)
20. NHS IT Eagles (USA)
21. 日本工学院専門学校 (Japan)
22. 国際情報ビジネス専門学校 (Japan)
23. オデッセイ テスティング センター 有楽町店 (Japan)
24. 専修学校 国際電子ビジネス専門学校 (Japan)
25. ニューホライズンジャパン CDトレーニングセンター (Japan)

Many of the rankings are very close and there are several teams with just a few points difference. Keep studying and passing those exams maybe you'll see your team's name posted (or posted higher up) on this update in 2 weeks! Good luck to all.

--Teresa

The First Top Ten+

To kick off the weekly posting of rankings in the Competition, here are the Top 10, with a fun twist on LAST PLACE:

1. Colegio Boston de Negocios (Costa Rica)
2. Digital Roadrunners (United States)
3. 日本工学院専門学校 (Japan)
4. Technokids Technoplus Agia Paraskevi (Greece)
5. KEK MIT (Greece)
6. 国際情報ビジネス専門学校 (Japan)
7. Bits & Grips (Germany)
8. オデッセイ テスティング センター 有楽町店 (Japan)
9. IBEC TLC (Ecuador)

For 10th place we have a 5-way TIE between these teams (makes you wonder who will move up into the Top 9 next week!) ...

• Lan2009 (Oman)
• Alshamelah Team (Libya)
• オデッセイ テスティング センター 新宿店 (Japan)
• 中津コンピュータカレッジ (Japan)
• CATS (United States)

I don't have any pictures for you this week, but I want to quickly let you know that some of the information on the website or that you received via email may have confused you and we are working on updating the website to make everything clear. For the record, you do NOT actually need to upload team members or register them with Certiport. Any time an exam is passed or a certification is earned in a given testing center, that team earns points automatically. If you have any questions on how that works, please feel free to leave a comment below. We apologize for the confusion and thank you for your patience as we update the website.

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Have a great weekend everyone!

--Teresa

T-shirts... and Your Friendly Certiport Marketing Department

On the thought of giving you more information on the prizes you can win, I asked Sunny and Denece (my other boss) if they had any pictures of the t-shirts that the winning teams received last year or the year before. They didn't have any pictures, but they did have a couple of shirts from the last 2 years. I suggested that someone put one on so we could take a picture and post it on the blog. Well, the next thing you know the whole marketing department was in on it...

We thought we were so funny, we even made a video! For your viewing pleasure...

So, now you can see what the t-shirts look like and what kind of people you're doing business with in this competition!

(Note: Hopefully the humor in these pictures and video translates across our worldwide audience. If not, just look at the t-shirts and don't worry too much about the rest.)

Stats will VERY SOON be posted - I promise.

--Teresa

Details About the PRIZES You Can Win

Let's elaborate on the prize package!!! First of all, this is a map of the 3 regions, each of which will produce a 1st prize winner:

These 3 winning teams will receive:

• a 1st place trophy
  
• 100 custom t-shirts for your team members (see next blog entry for pictures)
  
• $5,000 to spend on computers for your testing center

The team who earns the most points worldwide will win the IC3 World Cup Championship. As a grand prize, Certiport will fly the winning team coach to Toronto, Canada next summer (2009) to be honored at the company's annual conference, Pathways. Here are some pictures of Toronto and links to more information about the city and the Pathways conference:





Click to see Pathways 2009 Preview

Click here to see find out what there is to see and do in Toronto

Good luck everyone! Next week we will start posting the top 10 winning teams!

Teresa

Welcome Back

Welcome back to the IC3 World Cup competition!

This last August we celebrated with our winners of the 2008 competition in beautiful Kona, Hawaii. It really was great to see my friends again from Colegio Boston from Costa Rica since this is the second time in a row that they've won the competition.

Here I am with Jorge Luis Garcia who is the team coach for Colegio Boston:

And here I am again with our winner of the IC3 World Cup Exam Competition, Carl Furst, from Bits and Grips in Germany:

That's a nice big check isn't it?

This year there have been some changes to the competition. Number one, Benchmark is no longer included as one of the activities to earn points in the competition. However, we strongly recommend that you still use it as it helps prepare students to pass the IC3 exams. Remember, you only earn points for the exams that your students pass.

Second, this year we will have regional winners and then 1 worldwide winner that will join us at Pathways 2009. There will be 3 regional winners--one from the Americas (North and South), EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia). The regional winner with the most points at the end of the competition will be our worldwide champion that will win the free trip.

Pathways 2009 will be held in Toronto, Canada. For more information regarding Pathways, you can visit our site.

Hope to see you there!

-Sunny