Eleni Karakasidou and Kyriaki Petsa have brought great pride to Greece after finishing in the top two places in the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship.
The two 17-year-olds starred as Eleni won the gold in the Powerpoint category and Kyriaki earned the silver in the Word category.
The event was held in Florida, USA, with the two students making history as the first ever Greeks to finish in the top two at the Championship.
The pair qualified to the event after having won the preliminary competition held in Athens in the spring.
It was a great moment for the duo, who have become good friends despite being geographically separated by 500 kilometres.
Eleni (a student from Thessaloniki) and Kyriaki (a student from Athens) met three years ago through digital Zoom classrooms in the scholarship classes of the ExpertIN computer learning school based in Kavala.
The international competition was held for the 24th consecutive year in the USA, evaluating students aged 13 to 22 on their skills with applications such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
People from 140 countries around the world are eligible to participate, highlighting the scale of the challenge in finishing in the top two places as Eleni and Kyriaki did.
