Cisco Networking Academy students participate in Groundhog Job Shadow Day.

Cisco Networking Academy students participate in Groundhog Job Shadow Day. In Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern , more than 100 Cisco Networking Academy The Cisco Networking Academies, part of Cisco Systems, offer networking courses, like the CCNA and CCNP courses, which prepare students for the certification exams of the same name, and other computer-related courses. students participated in this year's National Groundhog Job ShadowDay. Students from Job Corp centers, high schools and colleges shadowedworkplace mentors at the Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation).Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Inc. San Jose San Jose, city, United StatesSan Jose(sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. campus. The event featured technology demos, facility tours and theopportunity for students to hear directly from a variety of technologyprofessionals about what a career in IT entails on a day-to-day basis.Students also were able to meet one-on-one with professional mentorsduring lunchtime roundtables. The National Groundhog Job Shadow Day effort is coordinated by theJob Shadow Coalition, which includes America's Promise America's Promise - The Alliance for Youth is a foundation started by Colin Powell in 1997 to help children and youth from all socioeconomic sectors in the United States. , JuniorAchievement Worldwide, the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S.Department of Labor (see the cover story in the February 2005 issue ofTechniques). The U.S. Department of Labor has honored Cisco as a GoldPartner for the last two years in recognition of the company's JobShadow Day efforts. According to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. Cisco, its employees devote hundreds ofhours to Job Shadow Day activities, and, as a result, Cisco provides amatching donation to Junior Achievement Worldwide. "In addition to the onsite activities being held throughoutthe country, we have also created virtual field trips that are availableto students," says Cisco Workforce Development Manager Peter Joyce."By making this available by web-cast, Job Shadow Day allows anyoneto take part in the program, even when they are unable to travel to oneof the physical locations." For more information about the Job Shadow Coalition, visitwww.jobshadow.org. For more information about Cisco Systems, Inc., visitwww.cisco.com.