Bebras Competition
The Bebras Competition is an annual computer science competition for primary and secondary school students around the world. With 54 participating countries and more than 3.003 million participating students in 2021/2022, the competition is the largest computer science competition in the world.[1][2]
History
Originally founded by the University of Vilnius and first administered in Lithuania in 2004, the Bebras competition is named after Lithuanian word "Bebras" which translates to "beaver". The competition has been subject of research and several dozen publications.[3][4][5]
In 2015 the Bebras organization was awarded the Microsoft-sponsored "Best Practices in Education Award" by Informatics Europe.[6] In 2019 Google awarded Bebras Indonesia a $1 million grant to support the program and further train teachers in the field of computer science.[7]
Format
The competition consists of 15 problems with the students having 40 to 45 minutes, depending on the country, to solve the tasks. The tasks are divided into three sets of "easy", "mediocre" and "hard" problems, with hard questions being awarded more points than easy ones and deductions for wrong answers. The tasks are designed to be solvable with a computational approach without the need for software or programming.[1]
Bebras in the United Kingdom
The "Bebras Computing Challenge" is organized by the University of Oxford and backed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the United Kingdom and has more than 300,000 annual participants. Students with a score in the top 10% of their relative age group are invited to sit the Oxford University Computing Challenge.[8][9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "What is Bebras | www.bebras.org". www.bebras.org. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ "Statistics | www.bebras.org". www.bebras.org. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ Dagienė, Valentina; Stupurienė, Gabrielė (2016-04-13). "Bebras - a Sustainable Community Building Model for the Concept Based Learning of Informatics and Computational Thinking". Informatics in Education. 15 (1): 25–44. doi:10.15388/infedu.2016.02. ISSN 1648-5831.
- ↑ Pluhár, Zsuzsa; Gellér, Barnabás (2018). Auer, Michael E.; Guralnick, David; Simonics, Istvan, eds. "International Informatic Challenge in Hungary". Teaching and Learning in a Digital World. Cham: Springer International Publishing: 425–435. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73204-6_47. ISBN 978-3-319-73204-6.
- ↑ Boom, Kay-Dennis; Bower, Matt; Arguel, Amaël; Siemon, Jens; Scholkmann, Antonia (2018-07-02). "Relationship between computational thinking and a measure of intelligence as a general problem-solving ability". Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education. ITiCSE 2018. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 206–211. doi:10.1145/3197091.3197104. ISBN 978-1-4503-5707-4.
- ↑ "Bebras wins Informatics Europe 2015 Best Practices in Education Award". Informatics Europe. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ "New skills for Indonesia's next generation". Google. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ "Computer scientists are country's top problem solvers". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
- ↑ "The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Bebras". Raspberry Pi. 2019-10-28. Retrieved 2022-08-02.
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