Computer science beaver

The computer science Beaver is held annually in November computer science - student competition for children and youth from grades 5 to 13, the computer science in collaboration with the office of the federal competition Society for computer science and the Ernst-Denert organized Foundation. The contents of the competition are brain teasers that creatively introduce the students to ways of thinking and concepts from computer science. The answers to the questions on the website of the competition online in multiple-choice method.

Since the Informatik-Biber 2008, the tasks have been divided into three age groups, namely in the grades 5 to 7, 8 to 10 and 11 to 13. There were a total of 18 tasks , 6 each in the levels of difficulty (easy, medium and difficult ), posed.

The tasks are solved annually in a so-called beaver week in November. After the competition, each participant receives a certificate . The best participants will also receive a material prize .

In 2007, 21,802 students from 289 schools took part in this competition, in 2008 already 53,602 students (22,042 girls) from 417 schools. In 2009 the number of participants increased to 82,879 students from 645 schools, including 35,813 girls, and in 2014 there were 217,506 participants from 1,232 schools, including 94,463 girls. In 2017 the competition already had 341,241 participants and in 2018 the number rose again to over 373,000.

The name of the competition is not related to the IT construct " beaver " (a special Turing machine), in particular the content of the competition does not deal with this.

history

The competition was held for the first time in 2004 under the name Bebras in Lithuania . In 2005, Beaver was carried out in Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland . In 2006, the computer science Beaver was in the context of computer science year under the name of EI: GAME lightning! carried out for the first time in Germany . In 2007, the IT beaver took place in Germany, Austria , Poland, Lithuania and the Netherlands. In 2010, the IT beaver took place in Switzerland for the first time .

In 2018, 54 international countries took part in the Bebra competition with a total of 2,774,799 participants.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Number of participants in the Informatik-Biber
↑ http://www.bebras.org/?q=about : "The thought rushed into head during the travel around Finland in 2003 and discussions about how we could attract pupils to learn informatics. The activity of beavers on strands was so noticeable , that it suggested the symbol of the challenge ... Beavers look like persistent stickers who endeavor for perfection in their field of activities and beaver away to reach the target. Their everyday job seems to be a trial: the one who pulls down more trees will stem more streams ... Therefore, our competition was named after the hard-working, intelligent, and lively beaver. "
↑ Countries | www.bebras.org. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .

[1] Number of participants in the Informatik-Biber

[2] ttp://www.bebras.org/?q=about : "The thought rushed into head during the travel around Finland in 2003 and discussions about how we could attract pupils to learn informatics. The activity of beavers on strands was so noticeable , that it suggested the symbol of the challenge ... Beavers look like persistent stickers who endeavor for perfection in their field of activities and beaver away to reach the target. Their everyday job seems to be a trial: the one who pulls down more trees will stem more streams ... Therefore, our competition was named after the hard-working, intelligent, and lively beaver. "

[3] Countries | www.bebras.org. Retrieved November 8, 2019 .