Beaver contest

„Beaver“ (original name "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 extent.

Each contests consists of a set of short questions called Bebras tasks. Prior knowledge is not required.

The Bebras initiative contains two main events1) An International Workshop that takes place in May-June is organised to develop new tasks 2) and National Contests are organised at the same time in autumn in all the countries that joined Bebras (named the Bebras countries), usually 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 contest. There are also more activities all along the year within countries: participants awarding events, seminars for teachers who introduce students with Informatics concepts, summer camps, collecting data and developing research papers, etc.

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