A seven-year-old boy of Balangir district has achieved a rare feat by clearing as many as five Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) examinations.
Class-III homeschooled Venkat Raman Patnaik, who also holds enrolment in WhiteHat Jr programme, cleared the examinations for Introduction to Programming in Java, JavaScript, Python, HTML and CSS; and for Database Administration Fundamentals, respectively. After a year of joining the programme, he cleared all five exams and is now a receiver of the globally-recognised certificate in technology. “It’s a proud moment for any parent to see their child excel at a skill.
For Venkat, it was his love for technology that prompted me to look for coding classes online and 1:1 individualised learning offered by WhiteHat Jr worked really well for him as it opened his horizons,” said Venkat’s father Kuldeep Patnaik.Venkat’s teacher Jatinder Kaur said, “He picked up the essence of coding from day one and revelled as the complexity levels increased.” The Chennai Institute of Technology invited Venkat as a guest speaker to its college programme ‘Catapult 2020’ to motivate its newly-enrolled students. Later, he developed an app ‘Let’s Reward Kids ‘ that bagged him a spot among 26 finalists of WhiteHat Jr’s Silicon Valley Challenge. He was also featured on Yuvaa Founder Nikhil Taneja’s programme ‘Teach me something with Nikhil Taneja’.
