{"id":9232,"date":"2019-09-12T13:14:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=9232"},"modified":"2019-09-19T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T20:26:28","slug":"kempsville-high-school-student-wins-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/kempsville-high-school-student-wins-national-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Kempsville High School student wins national title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t challenge Nathan Mack to a Microsoft Word contest because he will likely win.<\/p>\n

Over the summer, this Kempsville High School senior was crowned the word processing champion in the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) national competition.<\/p>\n

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And, this is not his first victory.<\/p>\n

Mack\u2019s history of winning started while he was a sophomore in Kempsville\u2019s Entrepreneur and Business Academy. He earned a perfect score the first time he took the Microsoft Word certification. That prompted him to compete in the state\u2019s Microsoft Office Specialist state competition, and he won first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve used computers since elementary school and took two keyboarding classes in middle school so I\u2019m sure that helped a lot, too,\u201d according to Mack. \u201c<\/strong>That, plus all of the academy classes. I\u2019m in the business information technology strand and we are always on computers.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a student in the Advanced Technology Center this past spring, he joined their FBLA club and noticed a category in the state competition for word processing. He won that contest, and this summer he competed at nationals in San Antonio, Texas, and won first place.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was definitely surprised,\u201d Mack recalls. \u201cI didn\u2019t think that with all of the people there that I stood a chance to get first place. It was really exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n

To win, Mack had to format seven business letters and memos correctly in Microsoft Word in one hour, a challenge which state winners across the country completed at their respective schools. Then, at nationals, competitors took a 100-question, multiple-choice test about various aspects of using Microsoft Word.<\/p>\n

Mack, who is also certified in PowerPoint, Excel and other Microsoft software, is keeping his options open about a future career, but acknowledges his choice might be in computer science.<\/p>\n

\u201cSociety is transforming into all technological things and I see typing, formatting documents and these skills I am learning as necessary in computer science.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will he compete in this year\u2019s FBLA competition?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I can compete in the same category. I may try for computer programming next time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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