An excerpt from the Outlook magazine's 'Chennai Corner' column: An Asset To The Nation Lavinashree is an exceptional child which is why when President Pratibha Patil came here last week for the Pravasiya Bharathi Divas, she evinced an interest to meet the eight-year-old girl. Madurai-based Lavinashree is the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional and met the President at Raj Bhavan last Friday. "She is an asset to the nation," said the President of Lavinashree after giving her a cash prize of Rs 11,000. Lavinashree bagged the national child award for exceptional achievement in 2006.She entered the Limca Book of World Records in 2005, reciting all 1,330 couplets of the Tirukkural. Munisamy, her father, remembers that when he took Lavinashree to a software learning centre for the Microsoft Certified Professional Examination preparation course last May, she was not given admission because she was too small. But Munisamy persisted and today she has taken over as the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional from nine-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa of Pakistan who got the honour in 2005. Lavinashree took the exam in August last year after two months of coaching, scoring 842 marks out of 1000 in the online test. Her ambition is to become a scientist like her hero, former President A P J Kalam.
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