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Shiplake College News

10/12/2020
Celebrating Computational Thinking
Computer Science

Congratulations to pupils from Lower School, Year 9 and GCSE Computer Science who have received top marks in the annual Bebras Challenge. 

The Bebras Computing Challenge introduces computational thinking to students. It is based on logic skills, and attracted over 200,000 competitors this year, from more than 50 countries.

In 40 minutes students need to solve 18 puzzles, which have varying degrees of difficulty, for example*:

Congratulations to our top Shiplake performers:

Juniors        
Henry Taphouse 7O 117 Distinction
N Thornber 7S 118 Distinction
Noah Thurgood 7T 121 Best in School
Intermediate        
Evan Greenway 8S 92 Distinction
Willem Keen 8S 94 Distinction
Luca Poundall 9B 100 Distinction
Aidan Teevan 9A 102 Distinction
R Goggins 9B 119 Best in School
Seniors        
Ben Hutt 10A 94 Distinction
C Voncke 10A 106 Distinction
Matthew Grundy 11D 97 Distinction
James Perry 11D 107 Best in School

Special congratulations go to R Goggins, who automatically qualifies for the Oxford University Computing Challenge, which takes place next February. He achieved this by being in the top 10% of 123,000 students who took part in the Intermediate Challenge this year. 

Flickr album: Bebras Challenge 2020 | Height: auto | Theme: Default

* The answer to the example question above is 27 minutes.