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The Microsoft office Worldwide competiton has been running for the past four years.
Irish Champions 2007
Representing Ireland were Rachel Gaul(left) from St Paul’s Secondary School, in Dublin and Kevin O’Brien(right) from Colaiste Choilm, in Tullamore. Both Students did brilliantly and came in the Top ten in their specialist fields of Word and Excel out of the 33,000 entrants worldwide.
Speaking on her experience Rachel said:
“The whole experience was AWESOME! It was great because there were competitors from all over the world and from different cultures so it was really interesting."
Irish Champions 2006
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Last years winners were Douglas Temple(centre of picture) and James Ryan(left of picture). They are pictured here with Dr. Kevin Marshall, the Academic Programme Manager for Microsoft Ireland.
Irish Champions 2005
In 2005 Janine Mc Evoy(below left) a student from Little Flower Girl’s School, Belfast and Padraig Downey(below right) from Rathmore Grammar School were Irish champions. Janine and Padraig were the highest scoring students in their respective categories. With Janine specialising in Excel 2003 and Pagraig specialising in Word 2003. They competed against numerous other students across Ireland and Northern Ireland. While in Florida, as well as taking part in the competition they also got to experience various cultural and relationship building activities, and enjoy Orlando’s Disney World attractions.
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Janine and Padraig pictured on the left enjoying their free time at Disneyworld, both really enjoyed the experience and believes that everyone should give the competition a go. Padraig had not been a "computer whizz kid" until he did the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Course at school.
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Padraig said: "I started the course because I thought it was a good qualification to have and would help me with my school assignments and later at university" he said. "Then when I sat the test I came first in my class, then in Northern Ireland and then I found out I came first in Ireland!"
Irish Champions 2004
In 2004 Ireland had its first Worldwide Champion. Andrew Flood, transition year student at Ardscoilrís in Limerick, has become the Worldwide Champion of the Microsoft Office XP Worldwide Challenge. Competing against 53,000 students from 42 different countries, in Florida, USA over the weekend, Andrew achieved the highest score in Microsoft Word 2002.
Speaking when he won Andrew said, “I am so happy to have won such a prestigious award. The whole XP Challenge has been a fantastic experience - the heats in Ireland, the trip to the finals in America and now to win the XP Challenge out of 53,000 students is mind-blowing. I feel very honoured.”
Andrew, along with Jonathan Curran the Worldwide Champion of Excel 2002, was flown to visit Microsoft Corporation’s Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where he met with top Microsoft executives and was awarded world champion for Word 2002.
If you have any questions please contact Kevin Ryan on +353-1-2360424 or by emailing kevin.ryan@prodigy.ie
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