The Bebras Australia Computational Thinking Challenge started in Australia in 2014 and is now run through CSIRO Digital Careers.

Bebras was founded in 2004 by Professor Valentina Dagiene from the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. Bebras began with 3470 student participants from 146 schools and has now grown to almost 60 countries with over 1.6 million students participating each year!

The goal of the Bebras Challenge is to promote computational thinking skills in a way that highlights student abilities.

• The challenge is made up of 15 questions ranging in difficulty.
• Students in Years 3 and 4 have 60 minutes and students in Years 5 to 12 have 45 minutes to complete the challenge.
• The challenge is open twice a year for two weeks.
• Students complete the challenge in one sitting at any time within the two week challenge period.

The results are in and once again we have had some amazing results from our extremely talented students.

The following students received a Distinction in the Challenge:

• Lilliana Anderson (4MG)
• Laila Thornburn (4F)
• Riley Robinson (6B)

We also had 10 students receive Credits and 62 students receive Merits! 

Some amazing results and I would like to thank all the students who participated and tried their hardest to achieve these amazing results.

Sarah Blundell
Leader of Digital Pedagogies/STEM