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Three Pupils For MOS Contest In Chicago by Ehiscotch(m): 9:23am On Jul 13, 2017 |
Three secondary school pupils have begun
intensive preparations to fly Nigeria’s flag at this
year’s Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World
Championship holding in Chicago, United States,
later this month.
The trio of Husna Bello of Glisten International
Academy, Abuja; Ogon Holdings of Deeper Life High
School, Port Harcourt, and Katherine Eta of Childville
School, Ogudu, qualified for the contest by emerging
the best of 161 pupils who sat for the final
examination of the competition conducted by
ReadManna Ventures Ltd between October 2016
and last April.
Husna led the PowerPoint 2013 category scoring a
perfect score of 1000/1000 in 23minutes 49
seconds; Ogon won the Excel 2013 category with
980/1000 (in 29 minutes 42 seconds); while
Katherine won the Word 2013 category with
963/1000 (in 13 minutes 5 seconds). They will be
accompanied by Mr Stephen Adeyemi, of Glisten
International Academy, which recorded the highest
score in the contest.
National winners in other categories are: Adeniran
Oluwatamilore of Louisville Girls High School, Ijebu-
Ode, Ogun State (Word 2016; 963/1000 in 26
minutes 52 seconds); Favour Oloriegbe of Childville
Schools (PowerPoint 2016; 914/1000 in 19 minutes
48 seconds); and David Eta of Childville School
(Excel 2016; 893/1000 in 15 minutes 30 seconds). CEO of Readmanna, Mrs Edna Agusto, said all six winners would be celebrated at a national prize giving ceremony to hold in September. She expressed satisfaction with performance of participants in this year’s competition who came from schools in Lagos, Ogun, Kwara, Rivers and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), saying 121 of the 161 participants were certified at the end of the contest. Winners also emerged in the third Readmanna Under 13 National Computing Fundamentals Competition. Of the 531 entries received from 11 schools in Lagos, Ogun and the FCT, 43 pupils were shortlisted for Computer Fundamentals, while 17 pupils were shortlisted in the Key Applications category. At the end of the competition, 24 pupils were certified in Computer Fundamentals and 10 in Key Applications. Aduvie International School, Abuja produced the top three winners in Computer Fundamentals namely: Garrick Nathan (956/1000); Antar Osuini (956/1000) and Adeosun Ibrahim (956/1000). In Key Applications, the winner, Habib Mohammed Ahanavi, came from Christ the King College, Ijebu Ode, Ogun State (906/1000). The First Runner Up was Maobi Obikwelu of Louisville Girls High School, Ijebu Itele, Ogun State (884/1000); while Temiloluwa Olaoya of Lagos State Model Junior College, Meiran, was the Second Runner Up (860/1000). thenationonlineng.net/three-pupils-mos-contest-chicago/
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