Bebras: International Challenge on Informatics

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Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote Informatics and Computational Thinking especially among teachers and pupils of all ages, but also to the public at large by extension. The big challenge of Bebras is to organise easily accessible and highly motivating online challenges in many countries.

Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote Informatics (or Computer Science, or Computing) and Computational Thinking especially among teachers and pupils of all ages, but also to the public at large by extension. The big challenge of Bebras is to organise easily accessible and highly motivating online challenges in many countries.

The challenges are made of a set of short questions called Bebras tasks. These tasks can be answered without prior knowledge in Informatics, but are clearly related to Informatics concepts. To solve those tasks, pupils are required to think in and about information, discrete structures, computation and, data processing, but they also must use algorithmic concepts. Each Bebras task can both demonstrate an aspect of Informatics and test the talent of the participant regarding Informatics.

The Bebras initiative contains two main events: 1) An International Workshop (about 40 countries) that takes place in May-June is organised to develop new tasks; 2) National Challenges are organised at the same time in autumn in all the countries that have joined Bebras (named the Bebras countries), usually in the second or third week of November (named the Bebras week). A lot of additional activities take place around those two main events. Some countries have a second round for the Bebras challenge. There are also more activities all through the year within countries: participant award events, seminars for teachers who introduce students to Informatics concepts, summer camps, collecting data and developing research papers, etc.

It is clear that, in addition to the challenges targeted at young pupils, the Bebras initiative is also able to reach a lot of other people, with the same goal. Computers and other technological devices being ubiquitous nowadays, it is important to make the public aware of Informatics, not only as a technology but also as the science to educate them and make their experience with technology better.

 

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