Microsoft Office World champions announced

Certiport (www.certiport.com) today announced the 2013 Microsoft Office Specialist World Champions in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.

The 2013 Microsoft Office Specialist World Champions are:

  • Ka Fai Wong, Macao, Word 2010
  • Himal Shrestha, Nepal, Excel 2010
  • Jiri Houzvicka, Czech Republic, PowerPoint 2010
  • Kieran Youngman, United Kingdom, Word 2007
  • Sicheng Wen, China, Excel 2007
  • Shu-Mei Cheng, Taiwan, PowerPoint 2007

Certiport recognized the top six student competitors at the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship Student Awards Ceremony in Washington, D.C. and presented each with a $5,000 scholarship.

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.