Portarlington's Ruan Murgatroyd is the reigning champion in WorldSkills Ireland's cloud computing category.
A Laois student is set to defend his cloud computing title at this years WorldSkills Ireland competition.
Secondary school students will go head to head across different skills based trades at the RDS in Dublin this week.
Portarlington's Ruan Murgatroyd is the reigning champion in his category, with other Midlands students taking part in different catagories.
Coolrain's Brian Kuehnle takes on industrial mechanics, Portlaoise's Aoife Conroy is entered in beauty therapy and Westmeath's Ryan Boyne is in polymechanics and automation.
Mr Murgatroyd says his category is full of complex challenges:
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