Our impact Transforming Cisco Networking Academy For 24 years, Cisco Networking Academy has changed the lives of learners, educators, and communities through the power of technology, education, and career opportunities. The program not only offers courses in some of today’s most in-demand technology skills, but also connections to top-quality employment opportunities through the Talent Bridge program. The Networking Academy learning portfolio includes 31 courses and is translated in up to 27 languages in 12,000 academies across 180 countries around the world. In fiscal 2021, 3.09 million students participated in the program, representing a 33 percent annual growth. As the program has evolved, so too has the way we've measured our breadth and depth of impact. We continue to move the bar higher by seeking and obtaining external assurance of our results. The “academies” of Cisco Networking Academy are high schools, colleges, universities, nonprofits, and other organizations such as prisons and community centers. These organizations are at the core of the program, providing instructors and facilities. Cisco provides its best-in-class curriculum, learning platform, and industry- leading network simulation tool Cisco Packet Tracer to academies free of charge, as well as instructor professional development. In fiscal 2021 as a response to the pandemic, we began providing free Webex accounts to academies as well. In many cases, Cisco develops long-term relationships with institutions that support other academies and instructors to help advance the program. For example, Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje (SENA), a government initiative in Colombia, has been a Networking Academy partner for over 18 years. Today, SENA utilizes the Networking Academy curriculum in 43 training centers across the country, and has reached over 61,000 Colombians. In fiscal 2021, the education sector continued to see a dramatic increase in self-paced and online learning, with Networking Academy seeing a nearly 40 percent participant growth in self -paced courses. Recognizing the opportunity to reach even more learners, particularly digital natives, including those within underserved and underresourced communities, we launched Skills for All . Skills for All is a mobile-first, online learning platform offering a personalized pathway to entry-level technology jobs, no matter where a person is on their learning journey. Designed by industry experts, Skills for All makes acquiring technology skills even more inclusive and accessible: it's free, self-paced, uses adaptive learning and gamification technology to drive learner outcomes, and provides learners opportunities to earn digital badges and micro-credentials sought after by employers. Initial courses on the platform are focused on the in-demand industry of cybersecurity, with many others Networking Academy gave me the skills I needed to walk a different path. I am working on projects that impact people's everyday lives. ” — Ernest Wambari, Cisco Networking Academy student, IT Network Delivery Specialist, World Food Programme, Africa Cisco Networking Academy’s impact 15.1 million student participants since inception in 1997 2.9 million students participating in Cisco career certification or IT Essentials courses say that Networking Academy helped them obtain a new job 1 95% of students completing CCNA curriculum or higher say Networking Academy helped them obtain a job or educational opportunity 2 93% of instructors say that Networking Academy helped them become a better educator 3 1 Based on student outcome survey participant results between fiscal 2005 and fiscal 2021 2 Based on student outcome survey participants for fiscal 2021 3 Includes Instructor Survey participants in fiscal 2021 who were actively teaching FUTURE INTRO POWER INCLUSIVE