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Teenager wins web award
By Sakina Zainul Datoo
A 17-year-old Ali Thawer was awarded with a Golden Web Award 2002-2003 at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School last week.
The award was presented by the International Association of Web Masters and Designers earlier this year in USA but was officially handed over last week.
Presenting the award at the school assembly, Headmaster Theo D'Souza said it was the tradition of the school to make an announcement when one of their students excelled.
"I have always known Ali as someone who designs our certificates. I am not surprised at all (that he won the award)… he has tremendous amount of skill, interest and hard work… Ali has shown a way on how to put computer to good use," he added.
The Florida based Microsoft affiliated organisation first awarded Thawer with a Junior Web Award and later cleared him to contest for the Golden Web Award.
"I had to create a graphic web page and use different computer languages such as PHP, Java Scripting and html," he said.
The organisation has now nominated him for the Diamond Web Award, which he is contesting.
Thawer possesses a lot of web designing experience already. He has worked with Tanzanian ISP's like Raha.com to design web pages for national and international companies. Emslies travel and Vintage Holidays are just some of his clients, he said.