JPOPE 2023: 1st Prize, Networks, Systems & Cybersecurity
Convincing recruiters, headhunters, academic partners, and the general public, for hours, under pressure.
What is JPOPE?
The Journées Portes Ouvertes Projets Étudiants (JPOPE) is IPNET’s annual open house. Recruiters, headhunters, academic partners, and the general public come in to see what students have been building. Over 40 projects are on display, across two tracks:
- Development (software, web, mobile)
- Networks, Systems & Cybersecurity
You stand in front of your project. For hours. The audience is mixed: sometimes a seasoned engineer who knows exactly what to ask, sometimes someone who has never heard of the technology you built. You adapt on the fly.
The jury scores on technical depth, clarity, relevance, and how you hold up under questioning.
What the format tested
A working demonstration was only the starting point. One minute we were explaining the problem to a visitor who had never seen the technology. The next, an engineer wanted to know why we had chosen that architecture. Recruiters cared about what the project could do outside the lab. We had to switch registers without losing the thread.
The result
In September 2023, my team finished 1st place in the Networks, Systems & Cybersecurity category.
JPOPE 2023 prize ceremony: 1st place Networks & Cybersecurity.
JPOPE 2023 prize ceremony: team with check.
Receiving the 1st place prize at JPOPE 2023.
Second year at IPNET. We built something technically solid and spent hours defending it in front of a demanding audience. Winning in that track, against teams from multiple year levels, told us we were building at a real level, not just school-project level.
What I took from it
The exhibition changed how I present technical work. A diagram or dashboard may impress another engineer, but it does not explain why the system exists. Since JPOPE, I have tried to show the problem first, then the choices I made and the result someone else can verify.
That is why the Projects page states who each system is for, what I built, its current status and its limits. I carried the same approach into student demonstrations at the IPNET CYBER CLUB and the IPNET CYBER BATTLE.
Evidence
The photographs above document the award ceremony and the team receiving first place in the Networks, Systems & Cybersecurity track. The result is presented here as a team achievement; the project was built and defended collectively.