Download high-resolution photos of the winners here and video interviews here. Next year, Certiport will host the 2018 MOS World Championship in Orlando, Florida. “The competition itself is the experience of a lifetime but every participant, all 560,000 of them, earned MOS certification to bolster their employability opportunities.” “We are proud to support the MOS World Championship and grateful to meet young people from all parts of the world who have discovered the power of Microsoft Office skills for productivity and employability,” said Anneleen Vaandrager, Senior Director, Education Industry at Microsoft. MOS certification is the only official Microsoft-recognized certification for Microsoft Office globally and serves as a powerful instrument for assessing student skills and preparing students for real-world application. Microsoft Office Specialist certification truly changes lives.” “The best part is watching the champions go home and then report back to us with all of the amazing things they are doing academically and in the workforce. “The Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship is inspiring – not only because these students won an impressive award, but because they have gained valuable workforce skills that will benefit them throughout their academic and career pursuits,” said Aaron Osmond, General Manager at Certiport. Each first-place winner was presented with a $7,000 cash prize, second place $3,500 and third place $1,500. Certiport and Microsoft recognized the top competitors at the MOSWC Student Awards Ceremony at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California. In the concluding round, competitors participated in unique project-based tests to demonstrate their ability to create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for the information presented in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Tenth place, Henry Andreu Salinas, Peru.Seventh place, Jose Tobar Cardona, Guatemala.Second place, Sarawut Khamset, Thailand.First place, John Dumoulin, Virginia, USA.Eighth place, Oudomsavanh Xayavong, Laos.Seventh place, Quoc Trung Duong, Vietnam.Third place, Kyriakos Chatziefthymiadis, Greece.Second place, Sam Millar, United Kingdom.Seventh place, Jonathan Foot, United Kingdom.Third place, Sofia Morales Gil, Guatemala. Second place, Dheya Madhani, North Carolina, USA.First place, Pattarapong Tantikowit, Thailand.Tenth place, Amila Mujkic, Bosnia and Hercegovina.Eighth place, Sebastian Thomas, New Zealand.Seventh place, Gustavo Luna Munoz, Mexico.Second place, Daniela Pavlova, Bulgaria.Tenth place, Olga Lolita Jerez Ruiz, Guatemala.Seventh place, Theerasak Pengyim, Thailand.Eighth place, Samuel Ruiz Perez, Mexico.Sixth place, Jose David Toribio Lied, Dominican Republic.The 2017 Microsoft Office Specialist World Champions are: Regional competitions were held worldwide and 157 student finalists competed in the final round of competition in Anaheim, California, USA from July 31 – August 2, 2017. To enter the competition, students aged 13 to 22 took a qualifying Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification exam to demonstrate their mastery of Microsoft Office products. Today culminated the most popular technology skills competition on Microsoft Office and the only one endorsed by Microsoft since its inception in 2002. In its 16 th year, the competition attracted more than 560,000 candidates from 122 countries to demonstrate their superior skills in Microsoft Word®, Excel®, and PowerPoint®. The winners of the 2017 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship have been announced by Certiport, the leading test delivery solution provider for the global workforce and academic markets. Winners Top 560,000 Competitors from 122 Countries in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
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