Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is to promote computational thinking for teachers and students (ages 8-17 / school years 3-12). Bebras is aligned with and supports the new Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum. Bebras Australia is run by NICTA under the Digital Careers program, funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Communications.
The Bebras Australia Computational Thinking Challenge 2015 is from 7 to 18th September 2015. It’s completely free and looks cool (I couldn’t resist and did a couple of the challenges – fun!)
Teachers can register and get things organised now (visit download the coordinators handbook to learn how to set up your students in the competition server. You must also obtain a parental consent form for each student.)
Anyone can go to the Bebras challenge site and play with last year’s challenges already to get a feel for what it’s like.
Our class created ginger beer with the help of the ginger beer kit. The children were really engaged with the…
Indi Alford, Teacher