Two Montana State University Billings COT students, Kent Savage and Alandra Oukrop, beat all but two teams in international Cisco Academy competition

Two of the best Cisco networking students on the North American continent proved their mettle — from a Billings coffee shop.

Improvising amid technology challenges, the Montana State University Billings students beat all but two teams in a Cisco Academy competition http://www.academynetriders.com/index.php between United States and Canadian students.

Kent Savage and Alandra Oukrop, both second-year students in the MSU Billings College of Technology’s computer systems technology program, were preparing for the online international competition when the university’s Internet system went down.

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