On June 14, the closing ceremony and award ceremony of the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship 2024 in Vietnam took place in Hanoi.

MOS World Championship is an international playground for students aged 13 - 22 worldwide, organized annually by Certiport (USA) since 2002, with the aim of finding and honoring young talents with good skills in using office computer applications.

2024 is the 15th year that the World Office Championship has the participation of Vietnamese students.

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Mr. Nguyen Tuong Lam, Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Permanent Deputy Chairman of the National Committee on Vietnamese Youth, said that digital transformation is an opportunity for young people to create many new values. Photo: BTC

Sharing at the closing ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Tuong Lam, Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Permanent Deputy Chairman of the National Committee on Vietnamese Youth, said that digital transformation is a challenge, but above all, it is an opportunity for young people to move faster, break through, and create new values. From there, contribute to the prosperity of the country in the future.

According to Mr. Nguyen Tuong Lam, in recent years, the MOS World Championship has contributed to creating opportunities for Vietnamese youth to perfect their IT application skills according to international standards and create a favorable momentum for future development with prestigious professional certificates.

“The contest is not only a useful technology playground, helping young people accumulate IT knowledge, but it also contributes to promoting the IT learning movement in the school system according to international standards. Thereby, contributing to improving the quality of young Vietnamese human resources in the digital age,” said a representative of the Central Youth Union.

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Representatives of the Organizing Committee awarded the national first prize to 6 students who led the competition contents of the MOS World Championship 2024. Photo: Organizing Committee

At the award ceremony of the MOS World Championship 2024 in Vietnam, the Organizing Committee announced 6 students who won the national First Prize, namely: Nguyen Minh Duong, student of Hanoi University of Science and Technology, First Prize in the Microsoft Word 365 Apps contest; Do Dong Hai, student of National Economics University, First Prize in the Microsoft Excel 365 Apps contest; Pham Nguyen Minh Hoang, student of Nguyen Tat Thanh Secondary and High School (Hanoi), First Prize in the Microsoft PowerPoint 365 Apps contest; Tran Truong Giang, student of Long Truong High School (HCMC), First Prize in the Microsoft Office Word 2019 contest; Tran Thanh An, student of Hanoi - Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, First Prize in the Microsoft Office Excel 2019 contest; Vo Ngoc Anh Linh, student of Bao Loc High School for the Gifted (Lam Dong), First Prize in the Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2019 contest.

In addition, at the event, the Organizing Committee also awarded 18 Second prizes, 30 Third prizes, 72 Encouragement prizes and 6 promising prizes along with many prizes to individuals and groups with high achievements in the MOS World Championship 2024 competition in Vietnam.

With the lead in 6 competition categories, the 6 first prize winners will represent Vietnamese students to participate in the world final round of the MOS World Championship 2024 taking place from July 28 to July 31 in Anaheim, California, USA.

At the world finals, 6 Vietnamese students will compete with the best candidates from nearly 100 countries and territories around the world and have the opportunity to win one of the gold, silver, and bronze medals with corresponding prizes of 8,000 USD, 4,000 USD, and 2,000 USD for each prize.

Looking back on the 15-year journey of the World Office Informatics Championship in Vietnam, Ms. Doan Nguyen Van Khanh, Deputy General Director of IIG Vietnam, said that from more than 100 contestants in the first season in 2010, the number of contestants participating in this competition has increased more than 20 times. The contestants' abilities have also been gradually improved through each season. In recent years, the number of contestants achieving the required score to be granted the international MOS certificate has always been over 70%.

“This shows that the contest has contributed to spreading and strongly encouraging the emulation movement to study and improve IT skills according to new international trends at all levels of education, meeting the requirements of the digital economy,” said Ms. Doan Nguyen Van Khanh.

According to statistics, the 2024 season recorded the participation of nearly 2,200 contestants selected from 240 teams of universities, colleges, secondary schools, and high schools nationwide. After the national qualifying round, nearly 86% of students achieved 700 points or more, the score that qualifies for Microsoft's MOS certification.

Notably, among the 150 excellent candidates nationwide who advanced to the national final round, more than half were high school students, including those who were only in 7th grade. Many of them came from remote areas of Lam Dong, Dak Lak, An Giang, and Yen Bai.

Participating in the world finals, Vietnamese students have so far won 20 medals in the World Office Informatics Championship, with 4 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 12 bronze medals. At the same time, the Vietnamese student team has been continuously in the Top 10 strongest teams in the world in the past 10 years. In particular, the outstanding achievements of the 2022 season have brought the Vietnamese MOS team to the top position in the overall number of medals for the first time in history.
Vietnam won 3 world medals in the 2023 Office Informatics Competition . Participating in the final round of the 2023 World Office Informatics Championship, the Vietnamese student delegation won 1 Silver Medal, 2 Bronze Medals and was in the Top 4 and Top 6 in the world.