Bebras UK success

Posted: 31st January 2020

A child stood outside a sign for the Department of Computer Science at The University of Oxford.

One of our pupils, JB, was invited to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford on Saturday 25 January as a finalist in a UK-wide competition – The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.

Reaching the final of the Juniors (10–12) age group was an impressive achievement, as 79,986 students entered the first round for this age group. JB was among the top 61 highest achieving students invited to the final round in his age group, and was presented with his finalist’s certificate at a prize-giving ceremony at Hertford College.

The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge, supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is designed to get students excited about computing and computational thinking. It is a problem-solving contest with questions inspired by topics in computer science. In the first round, held in their own schools, students have to try and solve as many problems as possible in the allotted time. There are six age categories. The highest scoring students from the four oldest age groups (Elite, Seniors, Intermediate, and Juniors) were then invited to the Department of Computer Science at Oxford for the finals over two weekends in February.

Congratulations to JB, who is pictured receiving his finalist’s certificate from Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

For more information, see bebras.uk

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