Bebras Computing Competition
The Bebras Computing Competition is an annual computer science competition for primary and secondary school students around the world. With over 54 participating countries and more than 2,977 million participating students in 2020, the competition is often believed to be the largest computer science competition in the world.[1][2]
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".[3] The competition has been the subject of research and several dozen publications.[4]
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", "moderate" 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 of software or programming.[5]
The Bebras in the United Kingdom
The "Bebras Computing Challenge" is organized by the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and has more than 300,000 annual participants.[6] Students with a score in the top 10% of their relative age group are invited to sit the Oxford University Computing Challenge.[7]
The Bebras in the United States
In 2020 over 47,000 students participated in the "Bebras Computing Challenge" in the United States, organized by the former lead coach of the United States IOI team.[8][9]
References
- ↑ "Statistics | www.bebras.org". www.bebras.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "History | www.bebras.org". www.bebras.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ "Publications | www.bebras.org". www.bebras.org. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
- ↑ Bellettini, C., Carimati, F., Lonati, V., Macoratti, R., Malchiodi, D., Monga, M., & Morpurgo, A. "A platform for the Italian Bebras" (PDF). Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help)CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Countries | www.bebras.org". www.bebras.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
- ↑ "Computer scientists are country's top problem solvers". uk.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
- ↑ "How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall". MIT Admissions. Retrieved 2022-02-19.
- ↑ "Countries | www.bebras.org". www.bebras.org. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
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