The California Regional Consortium for Engineering Advances in Technological Education (CREATE) project is a joint effort between seven community colleges and over 50 large high tech engineering/technology employers. CREATE is also the Cisco Academy Training Center (CATC) for CCNA, Security, Wireless, and IT-Essentials curricula.  Our Regional academies stretch over many of the western United States.

Career Connection:  http://cc.netacad.net/home.do

1. Register as Alumni
2. Post a resume
3. Check for Jobs

Promoting IT Careers:  www.cisco.com/go/promoteitcareers

1. Job Shadow Days
2. Academy Days
3. Packetville (for Junior High and grade school)
4. Virtual Field Trips

A Decade of Success: Cisco's Networking Academy Turns 10!

View Mr. Chamber's video in regards to the 10th anniversary of the Cisco Networking Academy. One of Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers' passions is education. The Cisco Networking Academy program is part of what he calls Cisco's "do well by doing good" efforts.

Wireshark http://www.wireshark.org/

Wireshark's powerful features make it the tool of choice for network troubleshooting, protocol development, and education worldwide. It used to be known as Ethereal, and was renamed in May 2006.

NetStumbler http://www.netstumbler.com/

NetStumbler (also known as Network Stumbler) is a tool for Windows that facilitates detection of Wireless LANs using the 802.11 protocols.

Panduit http://www.panduit.com/

Panduit is a global manufacturer of products for wiring and communications applications.

Tfpd32 http://tftpd32.jounin.net/

Tfpd32 for large IOS images

SolarWinds http://www.solarwinds.com/downloads/

Free TFTP server, Subnet calculator, and NetFlow configurator

Putty (free telnet, ssh) http://www.putty.nl/

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.