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and Trip of 13 MPICT students to
CFI-Paris Gambetta Capstone Course and Trip of 13 MPICT
students to CFI-Paris Gambetta
• PierreThiry, MPICT Center P.I., City College
of San Francisco
• Michael McKeever, MPICT Center Regional
Partner, Santa Rosa Junior College
• Richard Grotegut, MPICT Center Regional
Partner, Ohlone College
This material is funded in part by the National Science Foundation Grant DUE 0802284
with a supplemental grant for International Exchange
Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFI-Paris
Presentation Outline
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About MPICT
International RFP
Focus of the Presentation
Historical Background
Le Centre des Formations Industrielles (CFI)
The Project
Recruitment of American students
ACCENT international
The Capstone Course
The Trip to Paris:
 working at the CFI
 Telepresence with San Jose
 visit of 4 French ICT sites
Students’ Feedback
Dissemination
Lessons Learned
Credits & Questions
Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFI-Paris Gambetta Capstone
About MPICT
(Mid-Pacific Information and
Communications Technologies Center) f13
MPICT students to CFI-Paris Gambetta
 NSF-ATE Center funded since 2008
 Mission: coordinate, promote and improve the quality
of ICT Education
 Region: Northern California, Northern Nevada,
Southern Oregon, Hawaii & the Pacific Territories
 Hosted by City College of San Francisco
 5 Regional Partners Colleges: Santa Rosa Junior
College, Ohlone College, Foothill College, Cabrillo
College, Truckee Meadows Community College and
Kapi’olani Community College
Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFI-Paris Gambetta Capstone
March 2010
International Supplemental RFP
due April 15 ! MPICT students to
CFI-Paris Gambetta
“On a competitive basis, NSF’s Office of International
Science and Engineering (OISE) will consider requests
for supplemental funding to ATE Center awards to
support high quality international educational
experiences for small groups of U.S. community college
students and their faculty mentors through active
collaboration with counterpart technology educators at
their respective international sites…..
For this pilot opportunity, international collaborators and
sites must be located in Europe. We anticipate making
five supplemental awards, not to exceed $100,000 for
activities during the remainder of the active award. “
Focus of the Presentation
This presentation has been prepared for a
general HI-TEC audience but will have
particular interest for:
 NSF-ATE Center representatives
considering applying for an
international exchange project
grant in the future.
 Instructors teaching Cisco CCNA
looking for a great 2-credit
capstone course (available on
request) that can be taught in
house or in collaboration with
another College or School
Trip of 13 MPICT students to CFIParisHistorical
Background
 San Francisco and Paris have a Digital Sister Accord in place since 2006.
 The Centre des Formations Industrielles (CFI) Paris-Gambetta contacted
us through the Cisco Networking Academy to establish a collaboration in
2008.
 Visit of Pierre to Paris in January 2009
 Spring 2009 project: long distance collaboration based on a Networking
project using Moodle and Telepresence.
The Centre des Formations
Industrielles (CFI)
Paris-Gambetta
http://www.cfi.ccip.fr
 One of the 11 schools of the Chamber of Commerce of Paris
 Two missions:
 2-year technician program: with “Alternance” i.e. 2 weeks in school,
2 weeks in an apprenticeship in industry. (in IT, automotive, HVAC,
 Formation continue: evening courses for practitioners
THE PROJECTf1
 Creation of a Capstone course at Ohlone College using
Blackboard and CCCConfer for a group of students
from the US and France.
Requirement: have completed or be enrolled in the last
(4th) course of Cisco Networking Academy CCNA
program.
 Delivery of the course simultaneously to 24 US and 18
French students from March 22-May 27.
 Visit of 13 students in France from May 23 - June 3 to
finish the course during the first week and visit French
ICT industries in the second week.
 Recruitment of the American
students
Recruitment of the AmericanE Students
 The recruitment flyer distributed in 6 partners College.
 Selection criteria:
ACCENT
International
http://accentintl.com
 Contracted with Accent International Consortium for Academic Programs
Abroad
 Headquartered in San Francisco: specializes in organizing study abroad
programs for American Universities and Colleges.
 Offices and Residences in Paris, Florence, London, Madrid & Rome.
 One stop shop:
 Travel arrangement (Air and transfer)
 Orientation
 Lodging & Local Transportation
 Student ID
 CA CC’s and FR CFI school –
both CCNA Exploration 1-4
 Use live online platform to teach
an introduction to 6 “advanced
topics” (post CCNA) here and
there at the same time  Goals:
 Show students what comes after CCNA
 Add to their skill set and encourage
them to continue in their studies
 International exchange
 Differences in Ed systems, culture
and work environments
 Team and project management
experience
 “Soft Skills”
 A merger of two companies
 There are several technical issues
 Routing protocols
 IP addressing schemes
 Static routes
 More to discover and create
 There are several logistical issues
 Communications
 Leadership
 Roll playing
 Time management
 More to discover and create
Screenshot of CCCConfer session: 8am PST - 5pm Paris timer
 Topics – just a wee bit of…
 Layer 3 Switching
 Multi-area OSPF
 EIGRP/OSPF redistribution
 IPv6 configuration
 Site-to-site VPN IOS CLI configuration
 Call Manager Express
 And Multi-User Packet Tracer
 Labs
 Prerequisites
 Assignments
 The archives of our lectures to the US and
French students are available for your use
at http://online.santarosa.edu/presentation/page/?98061
Working on the project in
class at the CFI
Lunch in the CFI cafeteria
Break
cultural
exchange
 Telepresence between Paris and San Jose; on Friday 5-27
 7:30am San Jose Time. (16h30 Paris Time)
 Presentation of final projects.
Industries visits arranged by the CFI
and Cisco
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the data center of Paris City Hall
a switching center of France Telecom (Orange)
the IT center of the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry; and
the sophisticated network infrastructure of the Société Générale, one
of the oldest and largest European financial services companies.
France Telecom (Orange)
At the Société Générale
 The capstone course is available
to be taught
 In your class alone
 With another Academy in your
 City
 State
 Country
 Goals: (the same!)
 Show students what comes after CCNA
 Add to their skill set and encourage
them to continuing in their studies
 National exchange
 Differences in Ed systems, culture and
work environments
 Team and project management
experience
 “Soft Skills”
Lessons Learned and Advices
 Prepare ahead! Don’t wait for the RFP!
 Use a reputable one stop shop firm for the trip
 Create a component of the project which can be easily
duplicated without the need for a grant
 Different time zones are challenging…
 Research and teach cultural differences
 Foreign language fluency is a plus for at least one of the
leaders
 Engage an industry partner (for us it was Cisco)
Acknowledgments
 NSF – ATE and Office of International Science and
Engineering (OISE) for offering this fantastic grant
opportunity
 Michael McKeever and Danijela Bedic for creating and
teaching the capstone course
 Richard Grotegut, for hosting the course at Ohlone
College
 The ACCENT Team in San Francisco and Paris
 The CFI team: Tristan Gillouard, Director; Cécile Montier,
Manager; Christian Chauvier, Rahali Elidrissi & Alexandra
Atif, Instructors
 The Cisco Academy Team: Christophe Dolinsek, FrenchBenelux Manager, John Bjerke, Western US Manager &
Isaac Majerowicz, Product Manager
and…
 A great group of MPICT and CFI students
 “The three lessons that I've
learned as a result of this
international experience: First,
The balance of life and work,
second, communication skills
towards non-English speakers
and third, the appreciation of
what we have in America and the
freedom to do what you want and
what we want to be.” – SJB
 “Everything I needed as a
student was available to me at
anytime on any computer with a
net connection. It is times like
this, I really enjoy my field and
wish other class were taught like
this...” – SK
 “The biggest surprise for me was
learning how many network jobs
were available in France and
how high the demand for Cisco
trained workers was. This was a
big surprise to me and after
learning of this I am going to try
and get into an exchange
program to come and work in
France.” – JM
 “I found it amazing how alike
Americans are to the French
when dealing with Technical
topics.
 I found that the French have an
interesting take on life; After the
work day is over they forget all
about there work life and move
on to socialize. I noticed in
France that being social and
meeting with friends is an
essential part of the day. It is
almost like they live two separate
lives, a work life and a social
life.” – JE
 “At the end of day two we had a
show stopping technical issue (will
save the details). In short, we had
an issue with routing and had to
solve it. There was the hard way
and the harder way. I decided the
harder way and ran it by the team.
 To Michael, Pierre, Daniela,
Richard, Grace, everyone at
accent I thank you very much. This
is one of the moments where a
group of people or teachers
change a student’s life and I know
I am not the only one on this trip.
Thank you.” – SK
 “I learned that when working on a
team project that it is very
important to let everyone
contribute and to be open and
receptive to new ideas and
suggestions, even if you do not
necessarily agree. Also to
encourage those who are reluctant
to participate. For everyone to get
the most value of the project and
teamwork, it is important for
everyone to participate. If a
person is reluctant, they just may
be a little shy and/or not confident,
if encouraged, they may open up a
little more.” – ESM
 “The presentations at Cisco were a great learning experience. Putting
together the presentations, getting all members to participate,
coordinating speaking parts, then actually presenting it to instructors
and Cisco employees was a challenge. With the time difference it was
difficult to coordinate time with them to see what they had already
accomplished and what parts they felt comfortable presenting. It all
happened very last minute, however we wanted the students who
made the effort to travel to San Jose to participate and feel a part of
the team. I was very nervous speaking in front of a large group,
however it is good practice and I think I did OK. Listening to all the
other group’s presentations gave a little more insight on the project
and problems that we all faced, and all did a little differently.” – ESM