John won gold in his category, Excel 2016, and kissed his trophy as he walked off stage. On Wednesday, when the winners were announced they took the stage with flags from their home countries: China, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Macao, New Zealand, Nigeria, Romania, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. “I was just excited to place for the U.S. rather than team India,” said PowerPoint 2016 silver medalist Dheya Madhani, 15, of North Carolina - the only female competitor from the U.S. “I have family in India who streamed it live and they said it was the only time they would be cheering for team U.S.A. The contests were Monday, but results weren’t announced until Wednesday - leaving participants plenty of time to take stock of their hours of training, the support they received along the way and the sometimes funny looks they got from friends when they opted to focus on Microsoft Office rather than more traditional youthful pastimes. There are separate tests for the 20 versions of the Microsoft suite competitors are judged for accuracy first and then speed.Īfter 90 minutes, competitors walked out looking relieved and a little less anxious. For example, a student competing in the Excel discipline may be given a complicated equation to complete one with expertise in PowerPoint may be tasked with re-creating a slideshow down to the exact margin size and snazzy transition.
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The test gives the students a series of tasks to complete.
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Heading into the hotel conference room for the test, students were met with a laptop and a manila envelope filled with instructions. “It was harder than I expected and there was a lot of competition,” John said. But in Anaheim - with a first-place finish promising $7,000 and, in a bit of Microsoft cross-promotion, an Xbox - John was nervous. “I actually did that as a science project in middle school that used Excel to look into player statistics for the Dodgers.”Īt the national competition in Orlando, John won in his category, Excel 2016. “I’m a die-hard Dodgers fan so I used to track baseball stats in Excel,” he said. But he had always been adept on Microsoft Office.
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John got certified as part of a high school class, the same way most students found their way to the competition. “Then for a while I’ll be on YouTube watching videos about Excel.” “I make sure I do a minimum of five hours a week in Excel,” Anirudh said. Only the absolute best made it to the world championship.ĭelaware resident Anirudh Narayanan, 17, prepared all summer to compete in the Excel 2013 category, “looking up obscure facts just in case I might need to know it during the test.” He’s hoping the skills he honed will help him at Carnegie Mellon University, where he will begin studying economics in the fall. The fastest and most accurate among them got an invite to a national competition. According to Certiport, some 500,000 people received certification in Microsoft Office programs last year.