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Certiport-sponsored Competitions for Microsoft® Office and Certiport IC³ Attract Worldwide Audience
Thousands from countries spanning the globe are set to participate in the 2008 contests for desktop productivity and digital literacy
SALT LAKE CITY – November 05, 2007
Certiport today announced the launch of the Certiport 2008 Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office and the IC³ World Cup™. Entering its sixth year, the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office boasts more than 115,000 students from over 70 countries who have vied for the title of World Champion in Microsoft Word or Excel®. The IC³ World Cup will benefit from its second year as an international competition where successful teams from more than 20 countries will validate digital literacy in numbers.
Participants in both competitions will spend more than an estimated 1.5 million hours preparing for and participating in the competitions.
The Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office tests an individual's desktop productivity skills on Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Excel® 2003. Current students enrolled in an approved, degree-seeking academic institution are eligible to compete. Participating countries will host local competitions to determine Country Champions who then advance to compete against other select finalists in a championship round to be staged this summer in the United States.
The World Champions of Word and Excel® will receive a grand-prize package of technological tools valued at $4,500 USD.
The IC³ World Cup is a team-based competition in which any school, business or community organization is eligible to participate. Team members can earn points for their respective teams as they individually prepare for and achieve the Certiport IC³ certification for digital literacy. Each team can register an unlimited number of teammates as long as all the point-generating activity occurs at a single testing center.
Members of the winning team for the IC³ World Cup will divide up to $10,000 in prizes, which includes an all-expense-paid trip this summer to Certiport PATHWAYS™ 2008 for the team coach.
Visit www.certiport.com/ic3cup to learn rules and restrictions for participating in this year's IC³ World Cup. Additionally, learn rules for eligibility in the Worldwide Competition on Microsoft Office at www.officecompetition.com.
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Certiport is the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery and program management services which include practice tests via MeasureUp® delivered through an expansive network of over 10,000 Certiport Authorized Testing Centers worldwide. Certiport manages a sophisticated portfolio of leading certification programs including: the official Microsoft Office certification program, the Microsoft Technology Associate certification program, the Adobe® Certified Associate certification program, the CompTIA Strata™ IT Fundamentals, the Autodesk Certified User certification program, the Intuit QuickBooks Certified User certification program and the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC³®). Certiport reliably delivers over two million tests each year throughout the secondary, post-secondary, workforce and corporate technology markets in more than 150 countries and 25 languages worldwide. For more information, please visit www.certiport.com or follow Certiport on
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