Freshman Seth Maddox captured the 2019 Microsoft Office Specialist PowerPoint World Championship in New York in July. 

The 18-year-old showed off his presentation skills in the 2016 version of PowerPoint by dispatching 23 competitors from around the world to win the title and a $7,000 prize.

Maddox qualified for the world championship by winning the 2019 Microsoft Office Specialist PowerPoint National Championship in June, emerging from a field of 146 finalists after beating out 365,000 competitors who participated in the preliminary round.

“The world championship exam was quite a bit harder, so I was very surprised that I won,” said Maddox, a computer engineering major. “I thank the Lord that I was able to do as well as I did and win the competition.”