Certiport has named Kieran Youngman from the United Kingdom “World Champion” in Microsoft Word 2007.
Students
from all around the world competed in Final Round of the Microsoft
Office World Championship in Washington, D.C. this past week. Two UK
Champions (highest scores in Microsoft Office Specialist exams taken
during the year in schools) were sponsored by Prodigy Learning to attend
the competition. Luke Benfield (from Bishop of Winchester Academy) and
Kieran Youngman (from Sawtry Community College) competed at this 2013
event. Kieran has now been crowned World Champion for his performance
in the Word 2007 category!
The UK has a great recent history in
the MOS World Championship with 2 World Champions in 3 years. In San
Diego in 2011, Rebecca Rickwood (also from Sawtry Community College) was
crowned World Champion for MOS Excel. Also last year in Las Vegas,
Robert Phipps (from Royal Grammar School in Guildford) was crowned Third
Place Winner. Kieran’s win proves, yet again, that UK students are at
the top of the class in IT skills!
Craig Bewley (Director, Prodigy Learning) commented: “Congratulations
to Kieran Youngman for winning the MOS World Championship 2013. It is a
fantastic achievement and coming hot on the heels of Rebecca Rickwood
winning in 2011, proves the high level of UK students’ IT skills.
Special praise should also go to Kieran’s parents, his school, Sawtry
Community College and his teacher, Pam Kitchen, for all their
support. Sawtry and Pam have now trained two World Champions in three
years which is a unique feat!”
Next year, Certiport will
host the 2014 Microsoft Office World Championship at Disneyland in
California. For students to participate in the Competition and get the
chance to represent the UK as National Champions, they must take an
elgible Microsoft Office Specialist exam at their school (subject to
official UK Competition Rules).
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