Twenty-five King’s Ely Senior students achieved Gold certificates in this year’s Bebras Computing Challenge.
The online competition takes place annually in over fifty countries, and its aim is to get pupils all over the world excited about Computing. Each participant answers questions which focus on computational and logical thinking.
A total of 168 King’s students in Years 9 to 13 took on the challenge this year – Intermediate (Year 9), Senior (Years 10 and 11) and Elite (Years 12 and 13).
Our pupils’ results were, once again, higher than average in all age categories, both for Cambridgeshire and nationally, so well done to everyone who took part!
Gold certificates are awarded to the highest achieving 10% in the country and our Gold winners this year are, in no particular order: Charlie Wells, Isaac Kim, Eve Kittoe, Bernard Wilkinson, Dylan Grisby, Amelia Green, Abigail Pierson, Oliver Biggs, Matthew Johnson, Max Wade-Gledhill, Alexander Clode, Theodore Logan, Joshua Breakingbury, James Grimshaw, William Tregoing, Leo Ost, Elijah Martin, Adam Ahmad, Aiden Talbot, Edward Millett, Ka Yan Lam, Rohan Bramley, Elliot Bord, Patrick Townley, Alexander Tong.
Our ‘Best in School’ for each age category were: Bernard Wilkinson (Intermediate), Rohan Bramley (Senior), Elliot Bord (Elite).
All Gold winners qualify for the next round of the competition – the University of Oxford Computing Challenge, which takes place in mid-January. Its aim is to further develop students’ skills by getting them to produce programmed solutions to computational thinking problems. Good luck everyone!