11-YEAR-OLD CHICAGOAN AMONG YOUNGEST
TO RECEIVE MICROSOFT CERTIFICATION
 
Chicago, May 1, 2000 -- Like Bill Gates before him, Atchut Paturi is bent on making his mark on the computer era and, now, the Internet age.  The 11-year-old Chicagoan recently successfully completed rigorous Microsoft exams to become one of the youngest newly minted Microsoft Certified Professionals.  It took some five months of preparation before the Woodridge, Illinois boy was ready.  He passed on March 28.

Paturi’s encouragement and involvement in the certification program came through the American Institute of Computers (AIC), also in Chicago.  The computer training and consulting services company, where the boy’s father, Kasi Paturi, is a managing principal, is a Microsoft Solutions Provider.

The younger Paturi, a sixth grader, is currently designing web sites for an Indiana obstetrician and Indo American Political League(IAPL).  But his ambition, he says, when he saved enough, is to start his own dot-com company.