7-Year-Old Odisha Boy Clears Programming Exams Conducted By Microsoft 

In a rare achievement, 7-year-old Venkat Raman Patnaik from Odisha's Balangir district cleared five Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) examinations. Raman, a third grade student cleared the exams for programming in Java, Javascript, Python, HTML and CSS, after a year enrolled for WhiteHat Jr's Silicon Valley programme. He also outran 26 finalists of the program with his self-developed app 'Let's Reward Kids'. Moreover, the boy has also been featured on Nikhil Taneja’s famous talk-show “Teach me something”.