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[keyboard clicks]

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[computer whirring up]

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[keyboard clacking]

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[woman] I think everyone
is good, but I am better.

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[laughs]

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I'm carrying

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Cameroon on my back

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I'm carrying

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my friend on my back.

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I'm carrying my

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family on my back.

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Everyone, they really want to
get this first place prize.

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It's definitely a
tonne of pressure

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resting on my shoulders
for Australia.

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There are many competitors
all over the world.

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They are very strong.

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I'll do something,
I'll check if it works,

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and if it works,
we're good to go.

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So, you have this group of
people who might be nerds.

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You know, they're geeks.

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They're representing
their country

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in a competition
that is brutal.

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[man] They know the
stakes are high,

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and it's going to change
that person's life forever.

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They'll forever be
the world champion.

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That one question can
make all the difference.

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I'm not scared,

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of anything.

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Apart from failure.

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Just don't royally mess up.

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[man] You know, not everybody
walks away with a medal.

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Because if they didn't cry,

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that means that the
exam wasn't good enough.

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Oh, this is going to be good.

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[cheers] Excel!

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[man] Word,
Excel, and PowerPoint.

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Most everybody in
the world uses Word

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and Word can do some pretty
sophisticated things.

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PowerPoint also.

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Excel is a different level.

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[woman] So,
this is going to be, I believe,

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the back of the stage,

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and you can see there's so
many different moving parts

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happening right
now for this setup.

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It's going to be pretty
incredible, pretty big.

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You cannot walk off the street
and win this championship.

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In fact, I would bet you
wouldn't even finish the exam.

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[man] So, most people in
day-to-day use of Excel

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where you understand basic
formulas and functions,

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they probably use 10 to 15%.

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These students are being
pressured to understand and use

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60, 70% of that or more.

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The competition content
that Bing has created,

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he stretches what you
will know about Excel

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and he will punish you.

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Bing is not an evil genius.

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Bing is precise and methodical.

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He is focused on
creating a challenge

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that will truly measure
an individual's greatness.

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This year's tests are definitely
the most challenging ones

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we've ever developed.

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As students generally
perform better and better

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in the competitions,

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we have to raise the bar and
make the exam even harder

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to find the best of the best.

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[Steve] And these students
will absolutely be challenged,

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there is no question.

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I do believe that this will be

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one of the hardest tests
that they've taken.

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It would not surprise
me if we do see tears.

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[woman] Most
students in reality,

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they're not going to win,

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even though they all are smart,
even though they all work hard.

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I just really want them to
know that they're celebrated

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and they're worth celebrating.

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In five days,
the competition will kick off,

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and it will culminate

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in the excitement
that's been building up

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for well over a year for
many of these competitors.

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At this time, some competitors
are starting to make their way

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to Orlando, Florida.

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['Toccata and Fugue in D minor'
by Bach plays on keyboard]

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I have always thought I am a
bizarre person and I know that,

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and I know that everyone
knows that I'm ridiculous

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and everyone knows
that I'm ridiculous.

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I'm always interested
in complicated,

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buttony things, you know?

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[plays scale]

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[man] Mason has been always very
comfortable in his own skin.

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He, in elementary school,
wore bright purple socks

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up to above his knees with
plaid pants and a tie-dye shirt.

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He called it Fashion Friday.

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- Like colour vomit.
- And he just doesn't care.

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It's commentary.

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It's satire.

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It's really not, but, you know.

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He definitely walks to the
beat of his own drummer.

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I call that shameless
self-expression,

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and it's something I've told
him that I hope he never loses.

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This is my national
championship cheque.

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I liked having a giant cheque.

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It is in my room and
I love it dearly.

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Eclectic craziness is in here.

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OK,
clearly, it does not like this.

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It's fine.

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We'll make it work.
No, we won't. Alright.

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Well, I have a little
printing calculator.

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It does a bunch of cute stuff.

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So, it's like a mirror,

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and then this one sort of
acts more like a magnet.

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I like playing around
with electronics.

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I love programming
with computers.

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I love using computers.

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The organ is really
borne out of passion,

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and the piano is just something

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that I randomly was like,
"I should play piano."

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Mason tends to be
a little forgetful

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because his mind is
full of other things.

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[morse code beeping]

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And that's my name
in Morse code.

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You mean when he forgot to
take the - wash the shampoo

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out of his hair the other day?

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Yes.

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While he does things like that,
he owns it

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and that's just
part of who he is.

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I use Excel more than
most people would

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in my day-to-day life.

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I mean, you can understand that.
I'm a complete nerd.

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I'm a very social nerd at that.

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You can ask my friends.

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Um, but...

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Um, yeah.

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Alkmini is not new
in the competition.

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She has also competed
about another two times

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in the national final.

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[man] So,
we have all the soccer trophies

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through many years of soccer.

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The certificates for the
Microsoft competition,

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and then we have the trophy
for the Microsoft competition,

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the glass one, which was
sent over by Microsoft,

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and my school presented
it to me at assembly.

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Mr Wilkinson,
because he was presenting,

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he really overplayed it.

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So, he was like,
"Oh, magnificent achievement

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"going all the way to Florida
to represent Australia."

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So hyped up, and yeah.

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Whenever I was in prep
or anything, or year one,

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just had like a math solution,
I'd figure it out straight away.

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I'd be that one
person in the class

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who'd look forward
to the math test.

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[man] He's always
had a natural ability

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to work stuff out
really quickly,

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and he's kind of
self-taught in a way,

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 because he's just so curious.

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In school and stuff,
especially,

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I find stuff like
assignments really difficult,

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and I find - 'cause I'm really
good at memorising things,

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but then other stuff like
just writing assignments,

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I just can't do that
to save my life.

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I want to go more into Apple
game development when I grow up.

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Although he did want to
be a famous soccer player.

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Yeah, he did. Yeah, so...

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Could be running out of
time for that, perhaps.

00:11:01.496 --> 00:11:03.206
He's a good goalie though.
But you know.

00:11:03.290 --> 00:11:04.791
Anyway, we'll see.

00:11:05.038 --> 00:11:07.874
I think...
I think it's a bit boring.

00:11:08.961 --> 00:11:11.756
I don't know how
Braydon finds it fun.

00:11:12.424 --> 00:11:14.133
Yeah, I reckon he could win.

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That's the right answer.

00:11:18.596 --> 00:11:21.683
I think Braden's got the
potential to go all the way.

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His speed of actually being
able to complete the assessment

00:11:24.502 --> 00:11:25.794
is phenomenal.

00:11:25.937 --> 00:11:27.439
He's one of the
quickest students

00:11:27.522 --> 00:11:28.856
I've ever seen go through.

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[Braydon] I didn't find the
Australian competition

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very hard.

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Like, I'd go through and there's
nothing that I didn't know,

00:11:38.074 --> 00:11:40.285
and the questions
I got wrong were,

00:11:40.368 --> 00:11:42.119
like, just...
There was maybe one question

00:11:42.203 --> 00:11:43.955
I just hadn't learned yet

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'cause it wasn't on any of the
practise exams or anything.

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I didn't know there was an
Excel competition, to be honest.

00:11:50.837 --> 00:11:54.674
Um, I'm pretty happy I know now,
so...

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They didn't really understand
like how it would work

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and how the Excel questions...

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I don't think a lot - many
people at all understand,

00:12:01.681 --> 00:12:03.391
like how you can
have a competition

00:12:03.416 --> 00:12:05.793
on just Microsoft Excel.

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[woman] This year,
just under a half a million

00:12:12.467 --> 00:12:16.851
students tried to qualify for
the 2023 world championship.

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I mean, it's not yet to
the degree of Comic-Con,

00:12:22.677 --> 00:12:24.429
you know,
where people are dressed up,

00:12:24.454 --> 00:12:26.831
but you get some pretty
passionate people

00:12:26.856 --> 00:12:27.941
about software.

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We've had several people
offered jobs in the airport

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because they were world
champions on their way home.

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So many of them, I don't know
where they would have been

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had they not had
this opportunity.

00:12:42.889 --> 00:12:45.433
I think it really - it does,
it changes their trajectory,

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so it's pretty amazing.

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For example, we have our 2022
silver medallist in Excel,

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that he got a very
huge opportunity

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in a university in the US.

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He got a full scholarship.

00:13:00.507 --> 00:13:03.885
I don't have to express
how much of an opportunity

00:13:03.910 --> 00:13:05.202
that is for him.

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Hi, everybody.

00:13:24.161 --> 00:13:25.177
My name is Nam.

00:13:25.551 --> 00:13:26.939
Nice to meet you.

00:13:28.151 --> 00:13:29.625
Here's my gold medal.

00:13:29.959 --> 00:13:32.141
Gold medal for Microsoft Excel.

00:13:32.277 --> 00:13:33.559
When I heard my name

00:13:33.591 --> 00:13:36.549
announced as the first
place prize in Excel,

00:13:36.574 --> 00:13:38.458
I feel very surprised.

00:13:38.483 --> 00:13:42.429
My mother is,
screaming and yelling.

00:13:43.295 --> 00:13:46.052
Over, maybe for five minutes.

00:13:46.077 --> 00:13:47.119
Yeah.

00:13:48.467 --> 00:13:49.710
And me too.

00:13:50.011 --> 00:13:53.286
I was screaming with her too.

00:13:55.289 --> 00:13:57.686
We learn as a team.

00:13:57.969 --> 00:14:00.440
Because,
you may be weak in some

00:14:00.465 --> 00:14:02.062
terms of something
like formulas,

00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:03.973
and then you have teammates

00:14:04.389 --> 00:14:05.817
maybe they better than you.

00:14:05.842 --> 00:14:09.098
Fix the,
weakness of each other

00:14:09.889 --> 00:14:11.817
so,
first we can be a strong team,

00:14:11.842 --> 00:14:15.835
and then we can be a strong
person.

00:14:43.654 --> 00:14:46.475
I feel a bit a little pressure.

00:14:47.066 --> 00:14:49.068
To prepare, for the competition

00:14:49.093 --> 00:14:52.909
I take one to two hours a day

00:14:52.934 --> 00:14:54.014
to practice.

00:14:55.022 --> 00:14:56.684
To be honest,

00:14:56.709 --> 00:14:58.711
I'm not a hardworking person,

00:14:58.736 --> 00:15:00.886
but when I feel something.

00:15:00.911 --> 00:15:02.935
I like my passion,

00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:04.709
like Microsoft Excel.

00:15:04.734 --> 00:15:07.388
I feel very
enthusiastic and I want,

00:15:07.414 --> 00:15:08.823
to solve all problems,

00:15:08.848 --> 00:15:10.538
related to Excel.

00:15:26.093 --> 00:15:27.428
This is my room tour.

00:15:27.512 --> 00:15:29.597
 So, here we have the desk

00:15:29.681 --> 00:15:33.685
where I do my studies,
homework, everything

00:15:33.768 --> 00:15:37.564
with just a little
reminder of my friends.

00:15:37.647 --> 00:15:41.693
Here is where I
keep all my mess.

00:15:41.776 --> 00:15:44.111
Bags, bags, bags and bags.

00:15:44.195 --> 00:15:49.450
Uh, my One Direction book
and One Direction perfume.

00:15:49.534 --> 00:15:52.870
I remember being born
and being a Directioner,

00:15:52.954 --> 00:15:55.164
and I wanted to be a YouTuber.

00:15:55.305 --> 00:15:57.224
Like,
I really wanted to be one,

00:15:57.249 --> 00:16:00.878
and I stole my parents' phone,
and I put up my flashlight

00:16:00.962 --> 00:16:03.297
and I was like, "Hi,
welcome to my YouTube channel."

00:16:03.380 --> 00:16:04.507
I didn't have one.

00:16:04.591 --> 00:16:06.759
I just created it
by imagination.

00:16:07.635 --> 00:16:12.389
Imagine. I could be like a
YouTuber and an Excel winner.

00:16:15.226 --> 00:16:18.771
I like sleeping,
that's my number one hobby.

00:16:18.855 --> 00:16:21.816
Like,
I love sleeping, I love napping,

00:16:21.899 --> 00:16:24.861
but at the same time,
I like to study a lot.

00:16:25.653 --> 00:16:30.533
Math is just like
my comfort zone.

00:16:30.558 --> 00:16:33.686
Like, ever since I remember,
I was good at math.

00:16:55.892 --> 00:16:58.853
Everyone's like, "Oh no,
we have math class right now."

00:16:58.936 --> 00:17:01.022
And I'm like,
"We have math class right now!"

00:17:01.105 --> 00:17:03.409
It's like...
It's pretty nice. I don' know.

00:17:03.434 --> 00:17:05.436
So that's Carmina.

00:17:25.922 --> 00:17:28.925
[singing in French]

00:17:35.822 --> 00:17:38.470
I'm a calm person
and sometimes shy.

00:17:39.258 --> 00:17:42.508
yet I also love music,
I love singing.

00:17:42.855 --> 00:17:45.858
[singing in French]

00:17:52.344 --> 00:17:53.973
For me, music is like,

00:17:53.998 --> 00:17:55.201
my other part.

00:17:55.401 --> 00:17:57.316
Because I cannot do
anything without music.

00:17:57.341 --> 00:17:59.872
If maybe,
I am in a painful situation,

00:17:59.965 --> 00:18:01.789
I'll just put my music,

00:18:01.814 --> 00:18:04.183
if I'm happy,
I'll put on my music.

00:18:04.427 --> 00:18:06.705
When I'm studying
I'll put on my music.

00:18:07.159 --> 00:18:10.162
[singing in French]

00:18:13.146 --> 00:18:15.977
And I love,
solving my mathematics.

00:18:16.621 --> 00:18:18.669
Yes, that's all about me.

00:18:21.028 --> 00:18:22.489
The first time I saw Excel,

00:18:22.514 --> 00:18:24.465
I think it was in
secondary school.

00:18:24.856 --> 00:18:26.858
I enjoy it because it
deals with functions,

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and because it
deals with numbers.

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It deals with digits, so...

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I like, manipulating digits.

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So from that day...

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I decided that henceforward,
I would be...

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number one in mathematics,
so mathematics is my friend.

00:18:42.246 --> 00:18:43.867
For me numbers are very natural,

00:18:43.892 --> 00:18:46.258
and I'm playing with
numbers because,

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I'm making my brain reason,

00:18:49.439 --> 00:18:51.441
because when you are
reading your brain is not,

00:18:51.684 --> 00:18:52.819
it's not reasoning,

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but when you see numbers,

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you try to be fast and
you try to be smart.

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It opened my brain.

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[man] The Excel winners,
they're incredibly smart.

00:19:05.271 --> 00:19:08.315
They're probably the ones
that have the highest GPAs

00:19:08.399 --> 00:19:10.777
that do really well in
the STEM technology.

00:19:10.860 --> 00:19:12.403
Science, technology,
engineering and math.

00:19:12.486 --> 00:19:14.321
These are elite Excel users.

00:19:14.405 --> 00:19:16.657
These are almost
elite Excel athletes.

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It is the language and the
currency of the future,

00:19:20.995 --> 00:19:23.706
and without it,
it's going to be more difficult.

00:19:23.731 --> 00:19:25.391
So,
education and data literacy,

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there could be no more
two important skills

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to learn than these.

00:19:29.503 --> 00:19:31.380
When students are going
through this competition,

00:19:31.463 --> 00:19:33.024
they are developing
these essential

00:19:33.049 --> 00:19:34.466
data literacy skills

00:19:34.550 --> 00:19:36.593
that ability to
understand data,

00:19:36.677 --> 00:19:40.347
ability to get meaning out of
that data is an essential skill

00:19:40.372 --> 00:19:42.457
that will help these
students in any future job.

00:19:56.363 --> 00:20:00.326
This is the Microsoft
Worldwide Competition Lab,

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and so this is the
lab where the students

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will take their
competition exam.

00:20:05.372 --> 00:20:07.208
So, we've just
finished setting it up.

00:20:07.291 --> 00:20:09.626
We've got a couple of
final checks to make sure

00:20:09.710 --> 00:20:13.172
that everything is working,
that power plugs are charging

00:20:13.197 --> 00:20:15.616
the laptops like they're
supposed to, that mice work.

00:20:15.758 --> 00:20:18.135
So, we'll just go through
and touch each machine,

00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:19.577
make sure all is well.

00:20:24.725 --> 00:20:27.103
We have less than I have
for people who have access

00:20:27.128 --> 00:20:30.298
to the actual creative
instructions for this year.

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It's in a sealed envelope

00:20:32.149 --> 00:20:34.151
that the student then
has to break open,

00:20:34.235 --> 00:20:35.486
and there's some of
that is for drama.

00:20:35.569 --> 00:20:37.681
But most of it largely
is for security.

00:20:38.572 --> 00:20:41.993
And everyone, we're going
to be starting shortly

00:20:42.076 --> 00:20:44.203
once Bing gives me the OK.

00:20:45.537 --> 00:20:47.123
- Three, two...
- OK.

00:20:47.206 --> 00:20:49.083
I just love looking
into his eyes...

00:20:49.166 --> 00:20:52.378
Three, two, one, go!

00:20:53.880 --> 00:20:55.464
Ooh, and that worked.

00:20:55.547 --> 00:20:57.216
- Yeah.
- Y'all can't see this.

00:20:57.299 --> 00:20:58.509
But it worked.

00:20:58.592 --> 00:21:00.052
"Manage your time wisely,

00:21:00.136 --> 00:21:01.846
"keep track of the
time during the exam

00:21:01.929 --> 00:21:04.265
"to ensure you complete
all three sections.

00:21:04.348 --> 00:21:08.185
"When you're ready to start,
select the start exam button."

00:21:08.269 --> 00:21:09.812
OK, no more videotape.

00:21:10.521 --> 00:21:12.982
Don't read the actual question,
please.

00:21:13.065 --> 00:21:14.525
I won't, I won't.

00:21:14.795 --> 00:21:17.255
No.
You're nervous and I love it.

00:21:17.945 --> 00:21:19.613
Yes, I am nervous.

00:21:20.697 --> 00:21:21.824
You don't need to feel that.

00:21:21.908 --> 00:21:22.950
[laughs]

00:21:23.034 --> 00:21:24.535
I have no idea.

00:21:24.618 --> 00:21:27.746
Like, I just know it's going
to be a 100-minute exam.

00:21:27.830 --> 00:21:29.331
Like, they're very...

00:21:30.457 --> 00:21:33.627
They're very like
hush-hush about it,

00:21:33.710 --> 00:21:35.629
like, the details.

00:21:35.712 --> 00:21:38.715
[smooth electronic music]

00:21:53.105 --> 00:21:55.942
BING: The exam is broken
down into three sections.

00:21:56.525 --> 00:21:58.277
Section one is the
knowledge section.

00:21:59.611 --> 00:22:00.821
It's a series of questions

00:22:00.846 --> 00:22:02.848
to see how much they
know about Excel,

00:22:02.990 --> 00:22:04.700
without access to Excel.

00:22:04.783 --> 00:22:07.661
This section tests
competitors on their memory

00:22:07.744 --> 00:22:09.914
of Excel's essential features

00:22:09.997 --> 00:22:11.373
as well as its history.

00:22:12.374 --> 00:22:13.667
Many of the features in Excel

00:22:13.692 --> 00:22:16.111
have been there from
previous legacy programs,

00:22:16.253 --> 00:22:17.880
dating back decades.

00:22:22.509 --> 00:22:25.512
[upbeat electronic music]

00:22:29.725 --> 00:22:31.268
[man] When you hear
the word 'spreadsheet',

00:22:31.352 --> 00:22:33.437
most people think
of Microsoft Excel.

00:22:33.520 --> 00:22:36.232
But a spreadsheet used to
be an actual piece of paper.

00:22:36.815 --> 00:22:39.401
Until these two
graduates had an idea.

00:22:45.574 --> 00:22:47.201
My name is Dan Bricklin

00:22:47.284 --> 00:22:51.330
and people call me the father
of the electronic spreadsheet.

00:22:51.471 --> 00:22:53.515
I was a student at
Harvard Business School,

00:22:53.540 --> 00:22:56.627
and we would be
discussing and learning

00:22:56.710 --> 00:22:58.212
about different
business problems.

00:22:58.295 --> 00:23:00.631
We had blackboards,
we'd write numbers on them,

00:23:00.714 --> 00:23:03.050
and then you'd say, "Well, what
if this was a different number?"

00:23:03.134 --> 00:23:05.011
And then you'd have to
do all the calculations,

00:23:05.094 --> 00:23:08.097
and I sort of imagined that
there was a magic blackboard,

00:23:08.122 --> 00:23:11.084
that you could erase a number
and write a new number in,

00:23:11.225 --> 00:23:13.310
and all the calculations
would recalculate,

00:23:13.394 --> 00:23:14.603
and I started building

00:23:14.686 --> 00:23:16.981
what we now know as
electronic spreadsheet.

00:23:17.064 --> 00:23:19.900
I came up with the idea of
the columns and the rows

00:23:19.984 --> 00:23:22.987
and A-B-C, one, two, three.

00:23:23.070 --> 00:23:25.322
Now, we've set this up, OK?

00:23:25.406 --> 00:23:26.407
Then we type a new value in.

00:23:26.490 --> 00:23:27.616
OK,
here, I'm going to take that 100

00:23:27.699 --> 00:23:29.160
and I'm going to change it,
right,

00:23:29.243 --> 00:23:30.744
and here it recalculates.

00:23:30.827 --> 00:23:32.871
Whoa!
That saved me so much time!

00:23:34.206 --> 00:23:37.084
You can do things before,
which would take weeks to do

00:23:37.168 --> 00:23:38.377
in 15 minutes.

00:23:39.253 --> 00:23:42.214
[man] The time and money
business saved was astronomical.

00:23:43.132 --> 00:23:45.426
So, the spreadsheet became
the language of business.

00:23:46.593 --> 00:23:47.886
It was the first
time in history

00:23:47.970 --> 00:23:49.471
that people were
buying computers

00:23:49.555 --> 00:23:50.847
to run software,

00:23:51.848 --> 00:23:54.268
and VisiCalc was only
available on Apple.

00:23:55.769 --> 00:23:57.813
This is what propelled
the success of Apple

00:23:57.896 --> 00:24:00.274
beyond anyone's
wildest expectations,

00:24:00.357 --> 00:24:02.985
and revolutionised
the personal computer.

00:24:06.030 --> 00:24:07.948
The spreadsheet became
a significant part

00:24:08.032 --> 00:24:09.741
in the rise of
the computer era.

00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:13.579
No matter what
industry you're in,

00:24:13.604 --> 00:24:15.731
it relies on a
spreadsheet somewhere,

00:24:15.872 --> 00:24:17.333
even if you're not
using it yourself.

00:24:17.416 --> 00:24:18.792
It's here for the long haul

00:24:18.817 --> 00:24:21.028
because spreadsheets
rule the world.

00:24:22.546 --> 00:24:26.342
[woman] It is the core building
block for most businesses,

00:24:26.425 --> 00:24:27.759
as well as the
core building block

00:24:27.843 --> 00:24:29.553
for artificial intelligence.

00:24:29.636 --> 00:24:32.098
So, when we build AI,
essentially we build it

00:24:32.123 --> 00:24:34.564
on databases and spreadsheets.

00:24:35.059 --> 00:24:36.393
[Dan Briklin] It's a
general purpose tool,

00:24:36.477 --> 00:24:38.270
and we threw in everything
but the kitchen sink

00:24:38.354 --> 00:24:40.897
because we wanted it to be good
for so many different things.

00:24:40.981 --> 00:24:44.068
We didn't know which one would
be the one it was best for.

00:24:44.151 --> 00:24:48.088
It turned out all of them,
thank god.

00:25:13.597 --> 00:25:15.474
OK.

00:25:15.557 --> 00:25:17.226
Oh, this is a heavy door.

00:25:18.644 --> 00:25:20.020
- OK?
- That works.

00:25:21.272 --> 00:25:22.439
[lift bell rings]

00:25:22.523 --> 00:25:24.900
If only there was
a plastic ball...

00:25:41.461 --> 00:25:42.976
"Good eve..." Wow!

00:25:43.001 --> 00:25:44.420
Does it say,
"Good evening, Mason"?

00:25:44.503 --> 00:25:46.130
Mason, it's time to relax.

00:25:46.213 --> 00:25:47.673
That's your specialty.

00:25:47.756 --> 00:25:49.091
Yeah, it is.
That's true, that's true.

00:25:51.177 --> 00:25:52.261
- What are you doing?
- You'll hurt...

00:25:52.344 --> 00:25:53.554
What are you doing?

00:25:53.637 --> 00:25:55.139
What are you doing?

00:25:55.222 --> 00:25:56.973
No, no, no.
I can use my feet as well.

00:25:57.057 --> 00:25:58.350
This will end in tears.

00:25:59.976 --> 00:26:03.147
I guess they have little themed
key cards for the competition.

00:26:03.230 --> 00:26:04.815
At the national competition,

00:26:04.898 --> 00:26:07.443
I accidentally wiped two
of them with my phone.

00:26:07.526 --> 00:26:08.610
I wiped two key cards.

00:26:08.694 --> 00:26:10.571
You may say what?

00:26:11.947 --> 00:26:13.657
- I don't even remember.
- Hello.

00:26:13.740 --> 00:26:15.242
Yeah, I did.

00:26:15.326 --> 00:26:16.785
If you put it up
against your phone.

00:26:16.868 --> 00:26:18.870
They don't do that
on newer phones.

00:26:18.895 --> 00:26:22.482
NFC just kind of fell
off after Android 12.

00:26:22.624 --> 00:26:24.376
You can't you can't do
that with your new phone?

00:26:24.460 --> 00:26:25.586
No.

00:26:25.727 --> 00:26:26.895
- Are you sure?
- Mm-hm.

00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:31.675
My dad, he is very
technology oriented like me.

00:26:31.719 --> 00:26:37.338
I find him to be very similar
to me in a lot of ways.

00:26:38.682 --> 00:26:40.142
Every time.

00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:43.854
How's this?

00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:46.603
- Bidirectional shade.
- Works for me.

00:26:46.628 --> 00:26:49.710
We do, we do a lot of
activities together

00:26:49.735 --> 00:26:52.363
because our interests
are so aligned.

00:26:52.446 --> 00:26:55.115
People will very much say
that he takes after me

00:26:55.140 --> 00:26:56.308
in a lot of regards.

00:26:56.742 --> 00:27:00.036
[Mason] Ham radio is
called amateur radio,

00:27:00.120 --> 00:27:02.248
but you can talk to people
all around the world.

00:27:02.273 --> 00:27:04.016
I've talked to people
all around the world.

00:27:04.040 --> 00:27:06.168
There we go!

00:27:08.462 --> 00:27:11.770
It is an interesting
community of mostly old men.

00:27:12.566 --> 00:27:15.068
I don't know why,
I couldn't tell you why.

00:27:15.093 --> 00:27:18.096
But someday,
I will be that old man.

00:27:19.390 --> 00:27:22.768
I think my parents just
want to be supportive.

00:27:22.851 --> 00:27:24.936
I don't really know what
they think about all this.

00:27:31.902 --> 00:27:33.487
[woman] I was just
thrilled he got to compete.

00:27:33.512 --> 00:27:35.223
Honestly, never crossed
my mind that he'd win it.

00:27:35.364 --> 00:27:37.157
I mean, I'm not surprised,

00:27:37.241 --> 00:27:39.034
but, like, it's nationals,

00:27:39.059 --> 00:27:40.702
I don't know, I just didn't
I didn't, I don't know.

00:27:40.727 --> 00:27:44.306
I didn't dare think
about him acing it,

00:27:44.331 --> 00:27:45.374
and then it's like,

00:27:45.457 --> 00:27:48.419
it's Mason.
Of course he did. [laughs]

00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:52.005
I mean, I've never seen
him break under pressure,

00:27:52.030 --> 00:27:53.732
but when he's at school here,

00:27:53.757 --> 00:27:56.134
he's surrounded by
other kids his age

00:27:56.159 --> 00:27:58.204
that are none of them
as smart as he is.

00:27:58.345 --> 00:27:59.430
He walks into a room,

00:27:59.513 --> 00:28:00.764
and he's always the
smartest kid in the room.

00:28:00.847 --> 00:28:02.349
But now,
you're walking into a room

00:28:02.374 --> 00:28:04.667
with all the other smartest
kids in the room, you know?

00:28:04.692 --> 00:28:05.912
And so just getting
to be there,

00:28:05.936 --> 00:28:07.271
and then if you win,
it's a bonus.

00:28:07.354 --> 00:28:08.355
Yeah.

00:28:08.380 --> 00:28:10.403
It's like, "Oh, and by the way,
I also got to win."

00:29:46.787 --> 00:29:49.790
[electronic music]

00:30:16.983 --> 00:30:18.168
Hi, Mason! How are you?

00:30:18.193 --> 00:30:19.319
Good. How are you?

00:30:19.403 --> 00:30:22.906
It's going to be the M.
The Todd.

00:30:22.989 --> 00:30:24.032
That is me.

00:30:24.115 --> 00:30:25.409
- My email buddy.
- That's right.

00:30:25.492 --> 00:30:27.035
Mason Braithwaite.

00:30:27.118 --> 00:30:28.244
That's me.

00:30:28.328 --> 00:30:29.830
So, I have just registered.

00:30:29.855 --> 00:30:31.106
I have my lanyard.

00:30:31.306 --> 00:30:32.307
They gave me a goodie bag.

00:30:32.332 --> 00:30:34.960
When I got here,
I was really tired,

00:30:35.043 --> 00:30:36.628
but I couldn't sleep.

00:30:36.712 --> 00:30:40.591
I think just like the
nerves and, like, emotions.

00:30:40.634 --> 00:30:43.450
So I met opponent

00:30:44.110 --> 00:30:45.248
my opponent,

00:30:45.273 --> 00:30:46.423
from the USA.

00:30:47.013 --> 00:30:48.098
Right. He's 15 years old.

00:30:48.181 --> 00:30:49.641
15 years old? Oh, OK.

00:30:49.725 --> 00:30:50.892
You're in university?

00:30:50.976 --> 00:30:52.978
Yeah, I'm in university.
I'm final year.

00:30:53.061 --> 00:30:54.480
What are you studying?

00:30:54.563 --> 00:30:55.981
I'm studying economics.

00:30:56.064 --> 00:30:57.691
Economics of foreign trade.

00:30:57.774 --> 00:30:59.401
- Oh, OK.
- [chuckles ] Yes.

00:30:59.485 --> 00:31:01.361
I've met the Excel
Vietnamese competitor.

00:31:01.445 --> 00:31:03.572
I didn't get his name,
but he was very nice to me.

00:31:03.597 --> 00:31:06.184
Um, he's a lot older than me,
though.

00:31:07.075 --> 00:31:08.176
Good. Welcome.

00:31:08.201 --> 00:31:09.327
And what is your first name?

00:31:09.411 --> 00:31:10.412
- Braydon.
- Braydon.

00:31:26.872 --> 00:31:28.095
TODD: Alright dude.

00:31:28.120 --> 00:31:29.141
What?

00:31:29.166 --> 00:31:31.237
You're going to make
sure the space bar works,

00:31:31.376 --> 00:31:33.427
and make sure all the
keys are functioning.

00:31:34.887 --> 00:31:36.471
I miss my family a lot.

00:31:36.496 --> 00:31:38.582
It would be fun to have
this experience with them.

00:31:38.607 --> 00:31:40.275
[laughter]

00:31:41.276 --> 00:31:45.649
I love that we are
a very close family.

00:31:46.506 --> 00:31:49.384
Being the youngest,
it really helped me

00:31:49.409 --> 00:31:51.411
to become the way I am.

00:31:51.495 --> 00:31:53.580
[laughter]

00:31:54.806 --> 00:31:56.600
I know it sounds like,
oh, I'm spoiled,

00:31:56.625 --> 00:31:58.835
but I'm grateful for that.

00:31:58.860 --> 00:32:01.153
[speaking Spanish]

00:32:01.354 --> 00:32:05.484
My sister and I have a
really close relationship.

00:32:05.509 --> 00:32:07.177
Like,
we tell each other everything.

00:32:07.260 --> 00:32:09.930
[lively music]

00:32:12.766 --> 00:32:13.934
At the competition,

00:32:13.959 --> 00:32:15.869
it's going to be really
weird not having her

00:32:15.894 --> 00:32:17.938
by my side,
like, the whole time.

00:32:37.624 --> 00:32:39.292
We are keyboard testing today.

00:32:39.317 --> 00:32:42.484
I've got mine. My dad has the
two backups we brought with us.

00:32:43.254 --> 00:32:45.048
One is none.

00:32:45.131 --> 00:32:47.884
Two is one,
but one backup is none backup.

00:32:47.909 --> 00:32:50.016
So, we have two
backups for one backup.

00:32:51.722 --> 00:32:52.848
[laughs]

00:32:52.873 --> 00:32:55.500
It's surprising to see the
different personalities

00:32:55.525 --> 00:32:57.612
that a candidate might have

00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:01.707
in just how they come in,
sit down,

00:33:01.732 --> 00:33:03.316
what they do on the keyboard.

00:33:03.341 --> 00:33:05.126
Some will walk in,
like I said, and just say,

00:33:05.151 --> 00:33:07.112
"Well,
this is good, I'm fine.",

00:33:07.137 --> 00:33:09.547
and others will
fret and worry about

00:33:09.573 --> 00:33:12.283
mouse speed and
about the connection.

00:33:17.931 --> 00:33:20.058
It's just checking
to see that it works

00:33:20.083 --> 00:33:22.586
and that it's not
breaking any rules,

00:33:22.669 --> 00:33:25.881
which I doubt three backups
will break any rules.

00:33:25.964 --> 00:33:28.008
Um... So...

00:33:28.033 --> 00:33:30.953
And you're gonna make sure
that all keys function...

00:33:30.978 --> 00:33:32.095
Yep. Uh-huh.

00:33:32.178 --> 00:33:33.764
...and perform to
specifications.

00:33:33.847 --> 00:33:35.056
- All of the above.
- Love it.

00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.893
In order to avoid cheating,
we validate the keyboards

00:33:37.918 --> 00:33:39.953
to make sure that
they're not programmable.

00:33:39.978 --> 00:33:44.190
Any kind of keyboard that
has lights or makes sound.

00:33:44.274 --> 00:33:46.652
We made that mistake one
year where like, it was like,

00:33:46.692 --> 00:33:48.168
a disco in here
because all these kids

00:33:48.193 --> 00:33:49.862
brought these tiny
little cute keyboards

00:33:49.988 --> 00:33:52.032
and like... [gibberish sounds]

00:33:52.991 --> 00:33:54.660
It will be right here
when you come to test.

00:33:54.743 --> 00:33:56.244
At the computer, OK?

00:33:56.327 --> 00:33:57.996
- Thank you.
- Yeah, no problem. Good luck.

00:33:58.079 --> 00:33:59.330
Go have fun.

00:33:59.414 --> 00:34:00.557
I didn't bring my own keyboard,

00:34:00.582 --> 00:34:03.382
but they're gonna lend me one,
so it's fine.

00:34:14.219 --> 00:34:18.098
I honestly just forgot that we
were able to bring a keyboard.

00:34:18.314 --> 00:34:20.441
But I'm happy with the
one on the laptop anyway.

00:34:20.466 --> 00:34:22.935
Do you have any
questions for Bing?

00:34:23.554 --> 00:34:24.998
Bing is the fellow.

00:34:25.023 --> 00:34:26.139
He built this test.

00:34:26.370 --> 00:34:28.314
Have you already
offered the bribe?

00:34:28.339 --> 00:34:29.355
Not yet...

00:34:32.030 --> 00:34:34.407
The hardest or the biggest
challenge for Braden

00:34:34.490 --> 00:34:37.661
is going to be
slowing his mind down

00:34:37.686 --> 00:34:41.274
to ensure that his accuracy
is at the highest level

00:34:41.414 --> 00:34:43.249
on every single question.

00:34:43.333 --> 00:34:46.086
Reading that question
thoroughly and understanding it.

00:34:46.670 --> 00:34:49.214
BING: Section two is
the application section.

00:34:50.256 --> 00:34:52.258
This section tests
critical thinking,

00:34:52.283 --> 00:34:54.743
problem solving, and accuracy.

00:34:56.304 --> 00:34:58.348
Competitors are
given blank workbooks

00:34:58.431 --> 00:35:00.726
and a series of
challenging questions.

00:35:03.019 --> 00:35:06.607
It's a little bit pun
intended or unintended.

00:35:06.690 --> 00:35:08.399
It depends on how
you look at it.

00:35:08.483 --> 00:35:12.988
So, it's the application of your
knowledge in the application.

00:35:13.071 --> 00:35:14.656
One of the questions
in this section

00:35:14.740 --> 00:35:17.367
tests on Excel's
accuracy limitations

00:35:17.450 --> 00:35:21.246
in handling large numbers
using the Fibonacci sequence,

00:35:21.329 --> 00:35:24.415
where each number is the
sum of the previous two

00:35:24.499 --> 00:35:26.042
and the numbers grow quickly.

00:35:26.710 --> 00:35:28.044
Excel becomes inaccurate

00:35:28.128 --> 00:35:30.546
after the numbers
grow beyond 15 digits.

00:35:31.798 --> 00:35:34.009
Competitors must
identify and work around

00:35:34.092 --> 00:35:35.093
this Excel limitation.

00:35:36.427 --> 00:35:38.179
In real world scenarios,

00:35:38.263 --> 00:35:39.890
accuracy is crucial.

00:35:40.724 --> 00:35:42.558
[man] Ignition sequence starts.

00:35:42.642 --> 00:35:48.899
Six, five,
four, three, two, one, zero.

00:35:48.982 --> 00:35:51.943
Impact of accuracy
is high stakes

00:35:52.027 --> 00:35:53.987
when you're sending
things to space.

00:35:55.571 --> 00:35:56.990
Aerospace engineering,

00:35:57.015 --> 00:36:00.518
the mechatronics, electronics,
and all of those areas

00:36:00.543 --> 00:36:02.837
that are in charge
of the systems,

00:36:02.862 --> 00:36:04.080
the hardware,

00:36:04.164 --> 00:36:08.849
the whole ship that's going
to take your things to space.

00:36:08.874 --> 00:36:10.395
It's high stakes

00:36:10.420 --> 00:36:13.131
if you make a mistake
and don't catch it.

00:36:13.214 --> 00:36:15.091
 Each individual person

00:36:15.175 --> 00:36:19.846
has around 3 billion
letters in their genome.

00:36:19.930 --> 00:36:23.767
When you get cancer,
you get mutations or typos

00:36:23.850 --> 00:36:27.603
and our job is to
search through that data

00:36:27.687 --> 00:36:30.481
and identify where the typo is.

00:36:30.565 --> 00:36:33.944
So, if we miss something
important in the data,

00:36:34.027 --> 00:36:37.213
then it might be that
a patient misses out

00:36:37.238 --> 00:36:38.949
on some life saving treatment.

00:36:39.032 --> 00:36:41.409
You know, things happen
here that matter...

00:36:42.452 --> 00:36:44.662
that will affect the world.

00:36:44.746 --> 00:36:46.107
So, take it seriously.

00:36:51.837 --> 00:36:53.922
Preparing them
ahead of the time,

00:36:54.005 --> 00:36:56.754
knowing that, anticipating
potential difficulty

00:36:56.779 --> 00:36:59.552
will allow them to calm down

00:36:59.635 --> 00:37:02.347
and be mentally ready
for the challenge,

00:37:02.430 --> 00:37:05.976
rather than freak out during
the test and started to cry.

00:37:43.948 --> 00:37:45.643
Well, what I love from my mom.

00:37:45.668 --> 00:37:49.767
She is a studious and
hardworking person.

00:37:50.075 --> 00:37:51.355
I think I need to,

00:37:51.380 --> 00:37:52.436
make my effort,

00:37:52.461 --> 00:37:55.186
to do the exams so that I can,

00:37:55.864 --> 00:37:57.191
announce the good news,

00:37:57.216 --> 00:37:58.338
to my family.

00:38:08.109 --> 00:38:09.750
Three sections.

00:38:10.491 --> 00:38:11.554
Three??

00:38:11.586 --> 00:38:12.434
Three.

00:38:12.472 --> 00:38:14.089
Start with the knowledge.

00:38:14.416 --> 00:38:15.483
Application.

00:38:16.198 --> 00:38:18.200
And then you'll be
creating a document.

00:38:18.254 --> 00:38:19.710
Create document??

00:38:20.173 --> 00:38:21.274
If you're doing Word,

00:38:21.299 --> 00:38:22.475
you'll create a document.

00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:23.532
if you're doing Powerpoint,

00:38:23.557 --> 00:38:24.946
you're doing a presentation.

00:38:25.220 --> 00:38:26.500
if you're doing Excel,

00:38:26.525 --> 00:38:27.882
it's more complex than that

00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:29.575
But, you'll get an envelope.

00:38:29.600 --> 00:38:31.230
in the envelope it will
give you instructions

00:38:31.255 --> 00:38:32.118
what to do.

00:38:32.143 --> 00:38:33.279
That's called project test,
right?

00:38:34.455 --> 00:38:35.711
That's the creativity part.

00:38:35.736 --> 00:38:36.846
Creative, oh I see.

00:38:37.007 --> 00:38:38.541
The exam will tell you,
and then

00:38:38.566 --> 00:38:39.942
Open the envelope, and then,

00:38:39.967 --> 00:38:41.467
you'll open the envelope

00:38:41.654 --> 00:38:42.864
Hmm. Yes.

00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:44.341
OK?

00:38:44.365 --> 00:38:45.575
Yes, I see.

00:38:48.598 --> 00:38:49.668
It's OK,

00:38:50.246 --> 00:38:51.372
Yeah. I see. OK.

00:38:51.397 --> 00:38:53.184
It's going to be the
same for everyone.

00:38:53.208 --> 00:38:54.250
Yes.

00:38:59.919 --> 00:39:01.654
So they can know,

00:39:02.308 --> 00:39:03.636
They cannot go back.

00:39:03.661 --> 00:39:05.034
Because,
lots of students ask us,

00:39:05.058 --> 00:39:06.707
- three sections, can I go back?
-No.

00:39:06.732 --> 00:39:07.790
That's OK.

00:39:07.815 --> 00:39:09.725
I don't want them
to complain tomorrow

00:39:09.750 --> 00:39:11.154
Saying ' how come
I cannot go back'

00:39:11.179 --> 00:39:12.741
Yeah, and that clearly says it.

00:39:28.409 --> 00:39:30.703
Living in Cameroon
is not really easy.

00:39:30.786 --> 00:39:33.039
So, not always to go,
you are not going...

00:39:33.064 --> 00:39:34.816
always going to have a
straight line in front of you.

00:39:34.841 --> 00:39:36.968
So, you have to think of
other ways to do something.

00:39:37.168 --> 00:39:39.670
So, I think that is a way
to be an advantage for them,

00:39:39.754 --> 00:39:41.339
because they already
know that every road

00:39:41.422 --> 00:39:43.174
is not always going to
be the straight one.

00:39:44.270 --> 00:39:45.295
For my father,

00:39:45.319 --> 00:39:48.215
I'm his first child that's
coming to the university.

00:39:48.241 --> 00:39:50.453
When I asked about
the price of a room,

00:39:50.477 --> 00:39:51.853
he told me the
price of the room.

00:39:51.878 --> 00:39:52.939
I was surprised.

00:39:52.964 --> 00:39:55.451
and when I call him I told him
the price, he told me that,

00:39:55.476 --> 00:39:56.839
it is for my education.

00:39:56.864 --> 00:39:58.707
He can do everything.

00:39:58.923 --> 00:40:02.083
That our needs is success.

00:40:02.761 --> 00:40:04.057
So I promised my daddy,

00:40:04.288 --> 00:40:07.211
if you pay the room
and pay my school fees,

00:40:07.898 --> 00:40:09.849
I promise you to do my best,

00:40:10.389 --> 00:40:12.324
so you can be proud of me.

00:40:20.211 --> 00:40:22.380
[indistinct chatter]

00:40:23.839 --> 00:40:25.258
De La Paix doesn't
have a laptop.

00:40:25.283 --> 00:40:27.035
Unfortunately, he hasn't,

00:40:27.060 --> 00:40:29.896
he doesn't have one,
so he usually comes to school

00:40:29.921 --> 00:40:32.697
and uses one of
the school's labs.

00:40:32.721 --> 00:40:34.157
When the school is locked,

00:40:34.182 --> 00:40:36.389
I'll go around and
ask one of my friends.

00:40:36.748 --> 00:40:37.790
To borrow me his laptop

00:40:37.815 --> 00:40:40.286
So that I can revise.

00:40:40.815 --> 00:40:43.901
Cameroon students,
they face a lot of challenges.

00:40:43.985 --> 00:40:46.237
They lack infrastructure.

00:40:46.321 --> 00:40:50.491
You will find students who
may have the computers.

00:40:50.575 --> 00:40:54.454
They may lack access to
internet connectivity,

00:40:54.479 --> 00:40:56.439
which is not cheap in Cameroon,

00:40:56.581 --> 00:41:00.585
and at times it is
not readily available.

00:41:07.115 --> 00:41:08.363
When you have a cell there

00:41:08.388 --> 00:41:09.897
it's the intersection.

00:41:11.725 --> 00:41:13.014
The right,

00:41:14.289 --> 00:41:16.291
middle, mid,

00:41:16.735 --> 00:41:17.801
OK.

00:41:17.826 --> 00:41:20.457
That's the function
for extraction.

00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:24.392
Having that opportunity,

00:41:24.417 --> 00:41:26.043
to go and represent

00:41:26.365 --> 00:41:27.419
Cameroon.

00:41:27.444 --> 00:41:29.939
He's getting out from that,
darkness.

00:41:29.964 --> 00:41:31.340
Let me say that as such.

00:41:31.548 --> 00:41:34.270
You can say that he's
seeing the light coming.

00:41:34.573 --> 00:41:35.921
Going to America,

00:41:35.946 --> 00:41:37.130
for every Cameroonian,

00:41:37.155 --> 00:41:38.351
is like a dream.

00:42:09.028 --> 00:42:12.823
In Guatemala,
there's not like that good level

00:42:12.907 --> 00:42:14.409
in many schools.

00:42:23.751 --> 00:42:26.879
When I got into the
competition here in Guatemala

00:42:26.962 --> 00:42:28.923
I saw a lot, a lot of boys.

00:42:29.006 --> 00:42:30.883
If I like, looked around,

00:42:30.966 --> 00:42:32.957
they were pretty much all boys.

00:42:57.276 --> 00:43:00.571
With this exam, the reason
we do offer it globally

00:43:00.663 --> 00:43:03.624
is so that we do have
that equity, right,

00:43:03.708 --> 00:43:06.085
that we are able
to allow everyone

00:43:06.169 --> 00:43:07.545
the same opportunity,

00:43:07.686 --> 00:43:10.773
whether they live in a
small village in Africa

00:43:10.798 --> 00:43:12.650
or whether they live
in New York City.

00:43:12.675 --> 00:43:14.677
So, competitions like this

00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:19.515
profile the extraordinary
talent that we need

00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:22.435
to have at the
table to be building

00:43:22.460 --> 00:43:25.463
the machines that are going
to run society in the future.

00:43:31.486 --> 00:43:34.864
Creativity in Excel is
especially important

00:43:34.889 --> 00:43:39.594
because not all people are going
to be in a position in life

00:43:39.619 --> 00:43:41.204
where they're
crunching numbers,

00:43:41.287 --> 00:43:43.414
and that's really what
we challenge them to do,

00:43:43.498 --> 00:43:47.710
is take a lot of data
and make it useful.

00:43:47.793 --> 00:43:50.963
BING: Section three is
the creativity section.

00:43:51.506 --> 00:43:54.425
Competitors are given
a substantial data set.

00:43:54.509 --> 00:43:56.886
They must visualise the
data in a pivot chart,

00:43:56.969 --> 00:44:00.765
showcasing their ability to find
meaningful patterns in raw data

00:44:00.965 --> 00:44:04.301
and transform this into
clean and insightful visuals.

00:44:05.019 --> 00:44:08.189
A lot of competitors find
this section challenging.

00:44:08.273 --> 00:44:10.608
For others,
this is their opportunity

00:44:10.691 --> 00:44:12.277
to think outside the box,

00:44:12.360 --> 00:44:15.446
and show off Excel for
all its capabilities.

00:44:15.530 --> 00:44:17.365
When you're a scientist

00:44:17.448 --> 00:44:19.450
and you're a specialist
in your area,

00:44:19.534 --> 00:44:23.788
you know a bunch of stuff
with scientific terms,

00:44:23.871 --> 00:44:27.166
things that only you
and your colleagues

00:44:27.191 --> 00:44:28.809
are going to understand.

00:44:28.834 --> 00:44:31.629
So,
you have to come with creativity

00:44:31.654 --> 00:44:34.366
when you want to
pass this information

00:44:34.391 --> 00:44:35.650
to the general public

00:44:35.675 --> 00:44:38.010
so that they'll understand,
they'll get your point,

00:44:38.035 --> 00:44:40.487
and they'll understand
also like the significance

00:44:40.513 --> 00:44:42.223
of the work that you're doing.

00:44:42.248 --> 00:44:43.909
So, running numbers
for the sake of numbers

00:44:43.933 --> 00:44:45.476
is not particularly useful,

00:44:45.560 --> 00:44:48.145
and the challenge comes
often that you have people

00:44:48.229 --> 00:44:50.648
that are skilled in
numbers and data analysis

00:44:50.731 --> 00:44:52.650
but are not skilled
in communication.

00:44:52.733 --> 00:44:55.836
So, if we find a data
analyst who can communicate,

00:44:55.861 --> 00:44:57.530
these people are gold.

00:44:57.613 --> 00:45:00.466
Select the data
that's important,

00:45:00.491 --> 00:45:03.010
that's going to
transmit the story

00:45:03.035 --> 00:45:05.054
and the information that
you're interested in,

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:08.916
and then plot it in a
way that's understandable

00:45:08.941 --> 00:45:11.087
and beautiful,
like, to the eye.

00:45:13.754 --> 00:45:16.757
["Always on my mind"
by Pet Shop Boys plays]

00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:24.449
So,
you have this group of people

00:45:24.474 --> 00:45:25.808
who might be nerds,

00:45:25.891 --> 00:45:27.560
who might be,
you know, they're geeks

00:45:27.702 --> 00:45:30.830
and all these other labels
that can apply to them,

00:45:30.855 --> 00:45:35.234
and yet they are in so many
ways, just like their peers

00:45:35.259 --> 00:45:37.795
in that they're
still adolescents,

00:45:37.820 --> 00:45:39.071
and they're remarkable.

00:45:40.239 --> 00:45:41.407
These students,

00:45:41.432 --> 00:45:43.690
naturally,
a lot of them are shy.

00:45:44.201 --> 00:45:45.495
They're introverts.

00:45:45.578 --> 00:45:48.205
They're not really the
social butterflies.

00:45:48.289 --> 00:45:52.377
A big part of the competition
is helping students

00:45:52.460 --> 00:45:55.129
to build their self-esteem.

00:45:56.672 --> 00:45:58.173
[woman] I really want
the students to know

00:45:58.198 --> 00:46:00.526
that they are intelligent

00:46:00.551 --> 00:46:02.219
and that they are capable,

00:46:02.303 --> 00:46:04.514
and that they're
worth celebrating.

00:46:04.597 --> 00:46:07.517
[music continues]

00:46:13.523 --> 00:46:14.763
[cheering]

00:46:14.788 --> 00:46:16.564
The party is very amazing,

00:46:16.589 --> 00:46:17.650
wonderful and,

00:46:17.675 --> 00:46:20.225
I've never seen a
party like that before,

00:46:20.250 --> 00:46:21.874
and also we,

00:46:21.899 --> 00:46:23.202
take part in dancing.

00:46:23.227 --> 00:46:25.097
It's very amazing.

00:46:35.878 --> 00:46:38.131
[woman] Today is testing day.

00:46:38.156 --> 00:46:40.299
It is a big day for
all of the students.

00:46:40.324 --> 00:46:43.619
Everyone... You can see
how nervous everyone is

00:46:43.761 --> 00:46:45.388
as they're walking through.

00:46:45.413 --> 00:46:47.749
We've seen a couple students
practising on their computers

00:46:47.812 --> 00:46:49.210
to try to prep.

00:46:50.355 --> 00:46:54.619
I arrived yesterday
around midnight.

00:46:55.215 --> 00:46:59.080
By God's grace,
today I am here in Orlando.

00:46:59.561 --> 00:47:01.563
Representing my country

00:47:01.588 --> 00:47:04.203
and knowing wilfully that,

00:47:05.044 --> 00:47:06.131
if there is a cup.

00:47:06.546 --> 00:47:07.362
Maybe,

00:47:07.613 --> 00:47:09.729
and surely I will be
the one taking that cup.

00:47:10.871 --> 00:47:13.958
It's so wonderful to
know that De La Paix

00:47:14.041 --> 00:47:17.086
plus all the other champions
we came with from Cameroon,

00:47:17.227 --> 00:47:19.480
they were full of energy,
somehow.

00:47:19.564 --> 00:47:22.942
I was expecting they were going
to be tired after the trip.

00:47:22.967 --> 00:47:25.845
Far more than I can say,
30 hours to get here.

00:47:33.642 --> 00:47:35.374
I haven't slept that much,
actually,

00:47:35.422 --> 00:47:37.341
so I'm pretty angry at that.

00:47:38.399 --> 00:47:40.943
I'm missing a lot in my family,
mostly my sister,

00:47:41.026 --> 00:47:43.863
because she's usually there by,
"No, you're gonna be fine."

00:47:43.946 --> 00:47:47.700
And I need that,
like, feeling relaxed with them.

00:48:02.715 --> 00:48:05.676
Even if it was just he asked
for a pencil or whatever.

00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:07.344
Anything that we can document.

00:48:07.428 --> 00:48:08.929
Do we each have a pad?

00:48:26.030 --> 00:48:29.299
I think Braden
has the potential.

00:48:29.324 --> 00:48:34.789
But when you're put in a room
and there's fireworks flowing,

00:48:34.872 --> 00:48:36.331
the heart's racing,

00:48:36.415 --> 00:48:38.543
and you're in the middle
of that competition,

00:48:38.626 --> 00:48:41.462
keeping his cool is going
to be his biggest challenge.

00:48:44.632 --> 00:48:47.342
Right now, the nerves are
a little like sinking in,

00:48:47.426 --> 00:48:49.720
but I think I'm gonna do great.

00:48:52.495 --> 00:48:54.503
My strategy is that
I should not stress.

00:48:55.082 --> 00:48:56.536
I should be confident.

00:48:56.561 --> 00:48:59.104
I think I'm just
feeling anxious.

00:48:59.980 --> 00:49:01.190
I'm...

00:49:01.273 --> 00:49:03.400
It's like just waiting.
Waiting it out.

00:49:04.276 --> 00:49:08.238
I'm pretty confident I should
at least be able to do well.

00:49:08.322 --> 00:49:10.695
That confidence
will take him far,

00:49:10.828 --> 00:49:13.331
but it's also his
Achilles heel.

00:49:37.226 --> 00:49:39.520
He is a lot younger than
the other competitors,

00:49:39.604 --> 00:49:41.939
and that could be a
little bit difficult

00:49:42.022 --> 00:49:43.440
on your confidence.

00:49:43.524 --> 00:49:44.900
I think I'm just worried,
right?

00:49:44.984 --> 00:49:46.335
I know the first
part of the test,

00:49:46.360 --> 00:49:47.945
I'm like, I can do that.
That's easy.

00:49:48.654 --> 00:49:51.657
The second part of the test
is completely unknown to me.

00:49:51.741 --> 00:49:53.283
So, it's going to be a mystery

00:49:53.367 --> 00:49:55.410
about like what's
going to happen.

00:49:55.553 --> 00:50:00.182
Cameroon has never won
a gold medal before,

00:50:00.207 --> 00:50:03.127
and I believe in his skills
and I believe he will make it.

00:50:03.210 --> 00:50:05.004
Concentrate on a
particular option

00:50:05.087 --> 00:50:06.589
or a particular objective.

00:50:06.672 --> 00:50:08.674
Finish that one before
trying to do something else.

00:50:08.758 --> 00:50:10.585
Apart from that,
he's good to go.

00:50:26.734 --> 00:50:29.153
Alright, everybody,
let's pump 'em up! Let's go!

00:50:29.236 --> 00:50:31.947
[applause and cheering]

00:50:41.540 --> 00:50:44.543
[tense soundtrack]

00:51:11.445 --> 00:51:14.448
[tense soundtrack building]

00:51:40.140 --> 00:51:42.601
So, I want everyone
to take a deep breath.

00:51:49.650 --> 00:51:56.115
We will begin in three,
two, one, start.

00:52:13.674 --> 00:52:16.677
[tense soundtrack]

00:52:24.852 --> 00:52:29.564
You just feel a sense
of heaviness in the room

00:52:29.648 --> 00:52:32.317
as the students seriousness
about what was happening

00:52:32.401 --> 00:52:33.903
was palpable.

00:52:36.113 --> 00:52:39.241
[Bing] They need to know
not just the features,

00:52:39.324 --> 00:52:41.076
not just the cover.

00:52:41.160 --> 00:52:45.664
They also need to look inside
and understand why it works,

00:52:45.748 --> 00:52:46.916
how it works,

00:52:46.999 --> 00:52:50.002
instead of just knowing
it works this way.

00:52:52.587 --> 00:52:56.425
These students, their knowledge
of the program is superior

00:52:56.508 --> 00:52:58.010
to most of their peers,

00:52:58.093 --> 00:53:02.264
and they're here in a
competition that is brutal.

00:53:04.850 --> 00:53:07.853
[tense soundtrack]

00:54:13.627 --> 00:54:15.462
How can I return to
a previous section?

00:54:15.545 --> 00:54:16.839
You cannot go back.

00:54:16.922 --> 00:54:18.132
I cannot go back?

00:54:18.215 --> 00:54:19.341
Yeah, it's one way.

00:54:19.424 --> 00:54:20.509
You made it...

00:54:20.592 --> 00:54:22.719
At the beginning it
said you cannot go back.

00:54:24.388 --> 00:54:27.224
Does that mean I cannot go
back to the section one?

00:54:27.307 --> 00:54:28.433
No.

00:54:30.895 --> 00:54:33.898
[tense soundtrack]

00:55:14.191 --> 00:55:16.273
I dont press anything and...

00:55:16.451 --> 00:55:17.716
OK.

00:55:22.583 --> 00:55:24.224
Okay.

00:55:31.465 --> 00:55:33.258
You were already doing this?

00:55:34.033 --> 00:55:35.728
You were already doing this,
right?

00:55:35.753 --> 00:55:37.870
-Yes, but...
-Can you stand up please?

00:55:37.895 --> 00:55:38.996
Yes.

00:55:43.755 --> 00:55:45.297
It's going to be OK.

00:55:45.971 --> 00:55:48.267
Did you do anything
in the project?

00:55:48.948 --> 00:55:50.148
Yes.

00:55:51.170 --> 00:55:52.410
Did you save?

00:55:52.435 --> 00:55:53.673
No.

00:55:54.494 --> 00:55:56.336
I saved it at the start.

00:55:56.361 --> 00:55:58.363
if you saved,
it should be here.

00:55:58.531 --> 00:55:59.619
But if it's not here,

00:55:59.644 --> 00:56:00.875
then you didn't save.

00:56:02.202 --> 00:56:04.264
There is no way I can
magically restore something

00:56:04.289 --> 00:56:07.039
-that you didn't save.
-Yeah, but...

00:56:39.296 --> 00:56:40.643
Let me explain the situation.

00:56:40.837 --> 00:56:42.225
So, her machine crashed

00:56:42.250 --> 00:56:43.566
due to a power outage

00:56:44.443 --> 00:56:46.427
and because of that,

00:56:47.152 --> 00:56:50.215
her section C progress,
was not saved at all.

00:56:50.240 --> 00:56:52.177
And since she didn't save,

00:56:52.299 --> 00:56:53.981
There is no way we
can magically recover

00:56:54.006 --> 00:56:55.515
something that was not saved.

00:56:55.983 --> 00:56:58.517
But we are going
to resume her exam,

00:56:58.542 --> 00:57:00.340
starting from section C.

00:57:18.367 --> 00:57:19.715
It's hard,

00:57:20.228 --> 00:57:21.329
and it's difficult,

00:57:21.354 --> 00:57:23.200
and it's frustrating.

00:57:23.225 --> 00:57:24.588
But in the real world,

00:57:25.108 --> 00:57:27.684
you lose work all the time,
because you don't save.

00:58:41.853 --> 00:58:44.856
[tense soundtrack]

00:59:29.443 --> 00:59:30.944
Hey, everyone,

00:59:30.969 --> 00:59:34.222
go ahead and put the rest of
your papers in your envelope.

00:59:35.699 --> 00:59:38.577
We'll be around to gather
your results shortly, OK?

01:00:56.101 --> 01:00:57.397
Are you OK?

01:00:57.911 --> 01:00:59.959
Well, not good.

01:01:00.124 --> 01:01:02.369
Well,
I don't feel very positive.

01:01:30.939 --> 01:01:32.816
That's alright.
We'll see how we go?

01:01:32.868 --> 01:01:34.369
- Can we go?
- Yeah, sure.

01:01:47.080 --> 01:01:50.041
Braydon came out of the
test and everything,

01:01:50.066 --> 01:01:53.028
every emotion and feeling
just came out, and...

01:02:01.181 --> 01:02:05.270
They had said that the
Australian student had given up,

01:02:05.307 --> 01:02:11.020
had kind of,
you know, it had defeated him.

01:02:16.651 --> 01:02:20.280
It seemed to me that he felt
as if there wasn't much point.

01:02:28.747 --> 01:02:32.459
I think part of the reason
we make this so difficult,

01:02:32.542 --> 01:02:34.168
in addition to what
we said earlier

01:02:34.252 --> 01:02:36.380
about finding the
best of the best,

01:02:36.463 --> 01:02:40.008
is to also to test someone's
ability to deal with the stress

01:02:40.091 --> 01:02:42.344
during a limited time, right?

01:02:42.427 --> 01:02:45.054
And there will be students
who absolutely are frustrated

01:02:45.138 --> 01:02:46.765
who will leave this event

01:02:46.907 --> 01:02:49.242
feeling that they did
not get a fair shake,

01:02:49.326 --> 01:02:50.952
that it was too hard.

01:02:50.977 --> 01:02:52.937
A myriad reasons for that.

01:03:09.746 --> 01:03:12.165
It's not easy and it's
not supposed to be easy.

01:03:12.248 --> 01:03:13.700
A lot of students
are walking out

01:03:13.725 --> 01:03:15.352
feeling a little discouraged.

01:03:15.377 --> 01:03:18.963
I've heard a lot of students
talk about how difficult

01:03:19.047 --> 01:03:20.632
the test was this year.

01:03:20.715 --> 01:03:24.010
Um, and I hope that even
though it was difficult

01:03:24.035 --> 01:03:25.748
that they still feel
proud of themselves.

01:03:27.389 --> 01:03:30.058
As soon as I saw the
first section, I was like,

01:03:30.118 --> 01:03:32.036
OK, this is weird.

01:03:32.201 --> 01:03:36.080
Uh, like my head was like,
what do I do now?

01:03:36.105 --> 01:03:40.402
But I think I did
what was correct.

01:03:40.427 --> 01:03:43.889
I did my best,
and whatever happens, happens.

01:03:44.030 --> 01:03:47.158
I can go to sleep now,
like peacefully, completely,

01:03:47.241 --> 01:03:48.952
and listen to One Direction.

01:03:51.646 --> 01:03:53.641
The test was not too bad.

01:03:53.665 --> 01:03:54.681
It was good.

01:03:54.707 --> 01:03:56.190
It was for champions.

01:03:56.215 --> 01:03:58.365
So it was for us
to open our brains.

01:04:01.214 --> 01:04:03.675
I think I did better than most.

01:04:03.758 --> 01:04:06.010
- That's...
- I did some really weird things

01:04:06.094 --> 01:04:07.387
that worked out pretty well.

01:04:07.471 --> 01:04:08.722
- OK.
- So...

01:04:08.805 --> 01:04:10.682
- We'll see what happens.
- Right.

01:04:12.601 --> 01:04:14.185
[humming quietly]

01:04:14.268 --> 01:04:16.688
Go see my baby

01:04:16.713 --> 01:04:17.923
Go...

01:05:12.540 --> 01:05:14.291
I want a lot of people to win.

01:05:14.316 --> 01:05:17.015
There are so many nice people,
but in the end of the day,

01:05:17.040 --> 01:05:18.667
it's not about
whether they're nice.

01:05:18.750 --> 01:05:20.126
It's about their skills, so...

01:05:20.209 --> 01:05:23.337
The first two sections
of the tests were scored

01:05:23.421 --> 01:05:24.481
completely automatically.

01:05:24.506 --> 01:05:27.467
For the last section,
which is the creativity section.

01:05:27.551 --> 01:05:29.553
Due to the nature
of subjectivity,

01:05:29.578 --> 01:05:31.580
we actually require
human judges

01:05:31.605 --> 01:05:34.933
to follow a detailed rubric.

01:05:35.016 --> 01:05:37.310
Do you feel... Excited?

01:05:37.977 --> 01:05:39.437
- Nervous?
- I am...

01:05:40.229 --> 01:05:41.773
Excited. 114.

01:05:42.941 --> 01:05:47.445
So, for the Excel competition,
the winners are very clear.

01:06:50.365 --> 01:06:52.055
How do you feel?

01:06:52.280 --> 01:06:54.314
How do you feel going
to compete with,

01:06:54.406 --> 01:06:55.451
the best of the world?

01:06:55.522 --> 01:06:58.012
Africa, Africa, Africa...
They can't.

01:06:58.050 --> 01:07:00.692
But, we shall prove to them
this August and July.

01:07:01.218 --> 01:07:02.607
That Cameroon,

01:07:02.632 --> 01:07:04.272
is the number one
in all the world.

01:07:04.511 --> 01:07:05.700
I'm really proud of you.

01:07:06.065 --> 01:07:07.400
-Really proud.
-Thank you.

01:07:20.288 --> 01:07:21.790
How many phones do
you keep on you?

01:07:21.815 --> 01:07:23.558
-You have that old flip phone.
-I have two...

01:07:23.583 --> 01:07:25.334
OK. So, if one is none.

01:07:25.418 --> 01:07:27.336
- Two is one.
- I have two phones on a trip,

01:07:27.420 --> 01:07:28.755
but I actually
have a third phone

01:07:28.838 --> 01:07:31.007
that I always leave
in my travel bag.

01:07:31.090 --> 01:07:32.300
Wow.

01:07:34.755 --> 01:07:36.757
I'm very happy today.

01:07:36.782 --> 01:07:38.102
I'm very excited.

01:07:38.542 --> 01:07:42.468
I think everything
will be as God plans.

01:07:43.690 --> 01:07:46.152
If he says I will win,

01:07:46.432 --> 01:07:47.860
I will win.

01:07:55.865 --> 01:07:58.660
Today,
my dad's coming for the ceremony

01:07:58.743 --> 01:08:00.494
and I'm just so excited.

01:08:23.559 --> 01:08:26.187
So, today is awards day.

01:08:26.270 --> 01:08:28.356
I am feeling queasy.

01:08:28.439 --> 01:08:30.066
So, no breakfast.

01:08:32.568 --> 01:08:34.988
I think I'm more curious
just to find out how I did,

01:08:35.013 --> 01:08:37.966
rather than if I won, per se.

01:08:37.991 --> 01:08:40.744
Like, they're going to put
the top ten on their blog,

01:08:40.827 --> 01:08:43.204
and I'm like,
I wonder if I'll be in there.

01:08:43.229 --> 01:08:46.133
That's, I think,
about 20% of the contingent.

01:08:46.165 --> 01:08:48.209
And I would say I'd
be in the top 20%.

01:08:48.292 --> 01:08:50.044
That wouldn't surprise me.

01:08:59.674 --> 01:09:02.510
When I came out
of the room yesterday.

01:09:04.746 --> 01:09:07.153
Well,
I just feel very confused and,

01:09:07.184 --> 01:09:08.928
I feel that maybe the results,

01:09:08.953 --> 01:09:10.757
not good as I expect.

01:09:10.782 --> 01:09:12.133
But soon,

01:09:12.158 --> 01:09:14.562
I have to accept the result.

01:09:14.790 --> 01:09:15.943
At that moment

01:09:15.968 --> 01:09:19.523
I needing to
calm myself down.

01:09:24.397 --> 01:09:28.648
So, today, I don't want
to think about the test.

01:09:29.040 --> 01:09:31.319
Try to enjoy the moment,

01:09:31.344 --> 01:09:32.919
with my friends.

01:10:02.174 --> 01:10:04.635
As I've gone around and I've
talked to a lot of students,

01:10:04.660 --> 01:10:08.581
it's all nervous or some will
show me their hands shaking.

01:10:09.457 --> 01:10:11.876
To be in the top
three is phenomenal

01:10:12.099 --> 01:10:14.476
because they literally
are the best in the world.

01:10:15.939 --> 01:10:17.691
They're in there
for the recognition.

01:10:17.716 --> 01:10:19.598
They want to walk out
of there with a medal.

01:10:22.721 --> 01:10:23.763
Welcome to the

01:10:23.847 --> 01:10:26.640
Microsoft Office Specialist
World Championship event.

01:10:26.725 --> 01:10:27.934
[applause and cheering]

01:10:28.017 --> 01:10:31.270
One announcement will change
that person's life forever.

01:10:32.688 --> 01:10:33.790
It's a big deal.

01:10:33.815 --> 01:10:36.650
It's a world champion
returning home as a hero.

01:10:37.777 --> 01:10:39.112
Are you excited to be here?

01:10:40.321 --> 01:10:42.573
You have battled the
best in the world

01:10:42.656 --> 01:10:44.993
to get to this stage today.

01:10:45.076 --> 01:10:48.287
This is one of the largest
IT competitions in the world.

01:10:48.371 --> 01:10:49.538
You're the best of the best.

01:10:49.622 --> 01:10:51.040
Your national champions,

01:10:51.124 --> 01:10:53.793
and today, we will crown
the world champions

01:10:53.877 --> 01:10:56.629
in Microsoft Word,
Excel and PowerPoint.

01:10:56.712 --> 01:10:59.465
Are you ready to find out
who our champions are?

01:10:59.548 --> 01:11:02.551
[applause and cheering]

01:11:03.761 --> 01:11:05.638
In the category
of Microsoft Word,

01:11:05.721 --> 01:11:07.807
Thi Minh Anh Dang of Vietnam.

01:11:07.891 --> 01:11:08.892
[applause and cheering]

01:11:09.063 --> 01:11:11.138
If I win or not,

01:11:11.163 --> 01:11:13.034
well, I feel very proud.

01:11:13.453 --> 01:11:14.710
Not only for myself

01:11:14.735 --> 01:11:18.251
but also for other competitors
in my team.

01:11:18.276 --> 01:11:20.403
Thi Thanh Truc
Nguyen of Vietnam.

01:11:21.598 --> 01:11:23.122
Yeah! Go up...

01:11:37.170 --> 01:11:40.548
It would like help
me as like a person

01:11:40.631 --> 01:11:43.259
to pursue more of my dreams.

01:11:43.342 --> 01:11:46.012
[applause and cheering]

01:11:46.095 --> 01:11:47.196
Our third place winner...

01:11:47.221 --> 01:11:48.722
- China...
- Bronze medallist...

01:11:48.806 --> 01:11:50.016
PowerPoint...

01:11:50.099 --> 01:11:51.434
- Our second place...
- Taiwan...

01:11:51.517 --> 01:11:52.852
And silver medallist...

01:11:52.936 --> 01:11:54.020
Sora Takaya of Japan.

01:11:54.103 --> 01:11:55.104
World champion.

01:11:55.188 --> 01:11:57.356
The first place winner
and gold medallist.

01:12:04.780 --> 01:12:06.991
Alright, we're now moving
into our last category

01:12:07.075 --> 01:12:08.492
of the day, Microsoft Excel,

01:12:08.576 --> 01:12:11.495
and remember, whatever
happens today, win or lose,

01:12:11.579 --> 01:12:12.872
you are all champions.

01:12:16.459 --> 01:12:18.252
Alright,
announcing our third place,

01:12:18.336 --> 01:12:20.171
bronze medallist goes to...

01:12:21.589 --> 01:12:24.050
Songglod Petchamras
of Thailand.

01:12:24.133 --> 01:12:26.760
[applause and cheering]

01:12:35.603 --> 01:12:38.064
Alright, moving on to
our second place winner

01:12:38.147 --> 01:12:40.233
and silver medallist.

01:12:40.316 --> 01:12:42.068
That winner is...

01:12:42.818 --> 01:12:44.570
Jamie Kildea of Ireland.

01:12:44.653 --> 01:12:46.697
[applause and cheering]

01:12:58.167 --> 01:13:00.794
Alright, let's get on
the edges of our seats.

01:13:04.757 --> 01:13:09.929
Our world champion gold
medallist goes to...

01:13:12.848 --> 01:13:15.476
Yuxiang Lin of Macau, China.

01:13:15.559 --> 01:13:18.187
[applause and cheering]

01:14:23.002 --> 01:14:24.462
While we don't
announce the top ten

01:14:24.603 --> 01:14:26.897
from the stage
for each category,

01:14:26.922 --> 01:14:28.674
go to certiport.com

01:14:28.757 --> 01:14:30.551
and you will see the
list of all the top ten

01:14:30.634 --> 01:14:32.761
of the Microsoft
Office competition.

01:14:33.721 --> 01:14:35.764
[applause]

01:15:24.338 --> 01:15:25.879
When I see my team mates,

01:15:26.170 --> 01:15:28.272
getting the winning prize,

01:15:28.618 --> 01:15:30.374
I feel happy to them.

01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:32.230
Because, we got,

01:15:32.255 --> 01:15:34.257
we gained the achievement.

01:15:34.745 --> 01:15:39.948
I'm going to home and share
my failures to them.

01:15:50.173 --> 01:15:55.136
And even if you do not succeed
in this particular competition,

01:15:55.219 --> 01:15:59.140
it always allows you
to take something home

01:15:59.223 --> 01:16:03.352
and to think,
to learn and to improve on.

01:16:11.152 --> 01:16:14.155
[applause and cheering]

01:16:20.077 --> 01:16:22.455
...compete in another category
if you haven't already.

01:16:22.538 --> 01:16:24.165
In the meantime,
safe travels home.

01:16:24.248 --> 01:16:25.249
Thank you for coming.

01:16:25.333 --> 01:16:26.542
I came tenth.

01:16:26.625 --> 01:16:28.711
Did you? [laughs]

01:16:28.794 --> 01:16:30.421
Well done, mate!

01:16:30.504 --> 01:16:31.505
You came tenth!

01:16:31.589 --> 01:16:33.257
Good on you, mate!
He came tenth!

01:16:33.341 --> 01:16:34.425
I came tenth.

01:16:34.508 --> 01:16:36.177
[laughter]

01:16:36.260 --> 01:16:38.512
That's magic! That's brilliant!

01:16:38.596 --> 01:16:40.264
Yeah,
did you see who got tenth?

01:16:40.348 --> 01:16:41.849
- Yeah.
- Yeah, congratulations!

01:16:41.932 --> 01:16:43.226
Thank you.

01:16:44.227 --> 01:16:45.978
Very proud of him. Very proud.

01:16:46.061 --> 01:16:47.896
Top ten in the world.
It's amazing.

01:16:47.980 --> 01:16:52.693
I'm very happy for Braydon
about him coming top ten

01:16:52.776 --> 01:16:54.862
'cause he thought
he did really bad.

01:16:56.489 --> 01:16:58.616
I'm definitely glad
that I came here.

01:16:58.699 --> 01:17:01.076
That's why it's been,
like, a great experience.

01:17:03.537 --> 01:17:05.998
Super proud of you, buddy.
Well done.

01:17:07.955 --> 01:17:09.417
Australia, New Zealand,

01:17:09.442 --> 01:17:10.858
Peru, Guatemala

01:17:10.977 --> 01:17:12.005
Carmina!

01:17:12.037 --> 01:17:13.684
You are in the top
10 in the world!

01:17:18.829 --> 01:17:20.537
[cheering]

01:17:29.688 --> 01:17:33.901
She's a very good example
for girls in our country

01:17:33.984 --> 01:17:37.738
because technology is
not always so important

01:17:37.821 --> 01:17:40.449
for some schools.

01:17:40.533 --> 01:17:44.953
Other girls see they
can do this also.

01:17:45.037 --> 01:17:46.580
It's amazing.

01:17:47.540 --> 01:17:49.375
I got top seven, so...

01:17:51.627 --> 01:17:54.004
I have to text Miss Jenny
right now.

01:17:54.087 --> 01:17:55.923
My friend is already,
like, texting me.

01:17:56.006 --> 01:17:57.966
Like, "I'm so proud of you!"

01:17:58.050 --> 01:18:00.219
So, probably she already knows.

01:18:00.303 --> 01:18:01.929
Yeah, my dad's here.

01:18:02.012 --> 01:18:03.847
I saw him and I was like, OK.

01:18:03.931 --> 01:18:06.642
The relief of seeing someone,
like someone I know,

01:18:06.667 --> 01:18:08.544
and someone from home be here.

01:18:08.686 --> 01:18:10.271
It's so good.

01:18:11.455 --> 01:18:12.831
I feel very proud of myself.

01:18:12.856 --> 01:18:16.485
I thought the exam was pretty
different and kind of difficult.

01:18:16.569 --> 01:18:20.531
I really didn't believe
in myself, but I did good.

01:18:20.614 --> 01:18:23.617
[singing in French]

01:18:28.153 --> 01:18:30.155
I may not have a laptop but,

01:18:30.180 --> 01:18:32.445
I am a champion of Cameroon.

01:18:33.746 --> 01:18:36.262
I'm very proud of myself,
very proud of myself.

01:18:36.747 --> 01:18:37.929
Because,

01:18:37.954 --> 01:18:40.178
firstly I've proved to
all Cameroonians that

01:18:40.806 --> 01:18:42.808
education pays.

01:18:42.833 --> 01:18:45.411
And every oportunity,
you must grab it.

01:18:45.473 --> 01:18:48.476
[singing in French]

01:18:49.727 --> 01:18:52.730
[cheering]

01:19:25.481 --> 01:19:27.365
I told him before that
we were proud of him,

01:19:27.390 --> 01:19:29.600
and I told him after
that we were proud of him

01:19:29.683 --> 01:19:31.477
and he's still mowing the
lawn when we get back home.

01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:33.354
I'd like to get him fed

01:19:33.437 --> 01:19:35.272
because he hasn't
eaten anything today.

01:19:35.356 --> 01:19:38.108
So, that's the mum priority,
is getting him fed,

01:19:38.191 --> 01:19:40.277
and then just seeing
what we could do

01:19:40.361 --> 01:19:42.713
to help him relax a little bit

01:19:42.738 --> 01:19:44.823
and enjoy the rest
of the experience.

01:19:44.907 --> 01:19:47.910
After the nationals, I was like,
oh, I practised that much

01:19:47.993 --> 01:19:49.578
and I get this much back.

01:19:50.704 --> 01:19:52.623
So, like, I don't have
to practise as much,

01:19:52.706 --> 01:19:54.850
do good at Worlds,
and that was not true.

01:19:54.875 --> 01:19:55.959
I was not prepared.

01:19:56.043 --> 01:19:58.379
I think when I get home,
life will resume as normal

01:19:58.462 --> 01:20:00.381
and then I will look
back on that and say,

01:20:00.464 --> 01:20:02.007
"That was a really
weird summer",

01:20:02.032 --> 01:20:03.880
and then continue to live.

01:20:09.222 --> 01:20:11.367
When I hear someone
say they hate Excel,

01:20:11.392 --> 01:20:12.643
I just think to myself,

01:20:12.726 --> 01:20:15.062
you know you could make
your life a whole lot easier

01:20:15.145 --> 01:20:16.980
if you didn't hate Excel.

01:20:17.005 --> 01:20:19.288
I don't know, it's kind of like
when someone hates ice cream.

01:20:19.313 --> 01:20:21.860
Like, but your life would
be easier if you loved it.

01:20:21.944 --> 01:20:24.447
Yes, I like him still.

01:20:24.587 --> 01:20:26.089
You don't love me anymore?

01:20:26.114 --> 01:20:27.408
Oh, I love you. We're good.

01:20:29.326 --> 01:20:31.286
- I love you too.
- Yeah.

01:20:31.370 --> 01:20:33.038
Some of the students
that I have seen

01:20:33.063 --> 01:20:36.525
over the course of my
dozen years doing this

01:20:36.667 --> 01:20:38.586
did not win,

01:20:38.669 --> 01:20:42.756
and they have gone on
to do remarkable things.

01:20:42.840 --> 01:20:44.007
They are teachers.

01:20:44.091 --> 01:20:45.884
They are business
professionals.

01:20:45.968 --> 01:20:47.928
They make more money than I do.

01:20:48.011 --> 01:20:49.638
They will succeed.

01:20:49.722 --> 01:20:52.265
If they were driven enough
to get to this point,

01:20:52.349 --> 01:20:54.643
they will be driven enough to
move forward in the future.

01:20:54.727 --> 01:20:55.728
Of that, I have no doubt.

01:20:55.811 --> 01:20:57.438
I'm always inspired
by these kids,

01:20:57.463 --> 01:20:58.997
and I believe that
these are the kids

01:20:59.022 --> 01:21:00.517
that are going to
change the world.

01:21:01.368 --> 01:21:02.818
[Bing] It's
incredibly fulfilling

01:21:02.901 --> 01:21:04.069
to witness how education

01:21:04.152 --> 01:21:07.573
improves the lives of
future generations.

01:21:07.656 --> 01:21:10.033
The tech sector
run the world now,

01:21:10.117 --> 01:21:11.994
so we need champions

01:21:12.019 --> 01:21:15.064
like these young people
promoted and represented.

01:21:17.290 --> 01:21:20.335
It's also going to be
motivating the new generation

01:21:20.360 --> 01:21:24.448
to shoot for more
'cause they can do it.

01:21:24.590 --> 01:21:28.944
The way I view it is, look,
there was this average student,

01:21:28.969 --> 01:21:30.721
and I was an average student,

01:21:30.804 --> 01:21:33.098
who was sitting right,
right there,

01:21:33.181 --> 01:21:36.602
you know, in this classroom
who changed the world.

01:21:36.685 --> 01:21:38.311
You could do that too.

01:21:38.754 --> 01:21:42.591
They give me hope that the
world is in good hands.

01:21:43.275 --> 01:21:46.570
[choral music]

01:21:50.032 --> 01:21:52.367
Mason Braithwaite from the USA.

01:21:52.451 --> 01:21:55.078
[applause and cheering]

01:21:59.542 --> 01:22:01.544
Braydon Tanti from Australia.

01:22:01.627 --> 01:22:04.547
[applause and cheering]

01:22:04.630 --> 01:22:07.382
Melong Njoumangen Yvan
De La Paix from Cameroon.

01:22:07.466 --> 01:22:10.678
[applause and cheering]

01:22:17.225 --> 01:22:18.977
Alkmini Gaitan from Greece.

01:22:19.061 --> 01:22:21.689
[applause and cheering]

01:22:26.777 --> 01:22:28.487
Trung Nam Pham from Vietnam!

01:22:28.571 --> 01:22:31.574
[applause and cheering]

01:22:37.580 --> 01:22:39.665
Carmina Solares. Guatemala.

01:22:39.748 --> 01:22:42.751
[applause and cheering]

01:22:47.548 --> 01:22:50.551
[choral music continues]

01:23:33.839 --> 01:23:36.238
What's it like being
in a documentary?

01:23:36.263 --> 01:23:37.848
A lot of questions.

01:23:37.922 --> 01:23:41.635
A lot of lot of
self-inspection.

01:23:42.352 --> 01:23:44.021
It's like the
health department.

01:23:44.104 --> 01:23:47.274
Except instead of
checking the food,

01:23:47.357 --> 01:23:48.901
you're checking yourself.

01:23:52.565 --> 01:23:56.091
After this you will be seen
everywhere in the documentary.

01:23:56.116 --> 01:23:57.388
All over the world.

01:24:05.668 --> 01:24:09.254
A very strange new
experience for me, 100%.

01:24:09.337 --> 01:24:10.714
[laughs]

01:24:12.300 --> 01:24:15.855
Okay, let me see. I think
I would be a little nervous.

01:24:15.880 --> 01:24:17.404
Also I'm happy.

01:24:17.429 --> 01:24:19.139
Who's your favourite
One Direction member?

01:24:19.245 --> 01:24:22.290
Oh, I'm such a Niall girl,
I love Niall Horan.

01:24:22.315 --> 01:24:24.923
How would you feel if Niall
Horan watched this documentary?

01:24:25.646 --> 01:24:29.066
I would, I would, I don't know,
I would be in the sky.

01:24:29.149 --> 01:24:30.233
I would be...

01:24:30.317 --> 01:24:33.987
I would be over the moon if he
saw this and he remembered me.

01:24:34.071 --> 01:24:36.073
Hi, Niall. [chuckles]