Rebecca Rickwood - 2011 Microsoft Excel World Champion
Rebecca Rickwood, a 15-year-old pupil at Sawtry Community College in Cambridgeshire has been offered a £100,000 job at Course Academy, “after she finishes school, of course!”
The promised job is based on her becoming World Champion in Microsoft Excel 2007 at a competition run by Certiport in San Diego, California.
She was entered into the finals after getting 100% — the top score in the UK — in the Microsoft Office Specialist Excel certification exam, which was run by Prodigy Learning.
In all, the five categories attracted more than 228,000 entries from 57 countries.
Nick Ferro, a director of the Bath-based training company Course Academy, said: “We have trainers who have been teaching Microsoft Excel since 1995 who would struggle to match her score, so naturally we feel [she] would be a great addition to our team.”
