B AVONDALE TEAM CHOSEN FOR MICROSOFT WORLD CHAMPS Six Avondale College students are heading to Microsoft’s equivalent of the Olympics after winning the national finals of the Microsoft Office Specialist Championships last week. This year 120 schools from around New Zealand took part in the national competition, which tests students’ skills in six Microsoft Office applications. For the third consecutive year, all 20 places in the national finals were filled by students from Avondale College. The six champions - Ved Kulkarni (14), Christopher Tang (15), Tristan Mona (15), Sebastian Thomas (17), Jack Hui (17) and Alex James (17) rose to the top of an incredibly competitive field, with as little as 0.04 of a second separating some of the final place winners. They will now go on to represent New Zealand – and Avondale College – at the MOS World Champs in the USA in July. More than half a million competitors from around the world are also currently vying for a place at the world finals in which students aged 13 to 22 will be tested on their aptitude and knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint (2013 or 2016). The competition is project based, with points being awarded for accuracy and credit given for fast completion. In recent years Avondale College has made a name for itself in this international competition, having won twelve top-ten places (including three podium finishes) in the four years that they have entered. To put this into context, no Australian student has ever placed in a world final. The Microsoft Office Specialist World Championships will be held in Orlando, Florida from 29 July to 1 August.
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ADOBE SPECIALIST WORKSHOPS Selected ICT classes had the special opportunity to engage with the Australianbased Adobe Education Specialist team today in a creative workshop session. Students undertook a mini Adobe Have a Voice project where they had to work with a partner or in groups to build a two minute video promoting a concept, idea or issue that was important to them. Students built the videos using either Spark Video, Premiere Clip or Premiere Pro and had to incorporate a short animation made with Adobe Character Animator. In the afternoon, staff from Avondale College and other secondary schools had the opportunity to take part in a professional development session in using Adobe in the classroom.
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