The beaver contest: attracting youngsters to study computing

Authors:
Bruria Haberman;Avi Cohen;Valentina Dagiene
Affiliations:
Holon Institute of Technology & Davidson Institute of Science Education Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel;The Ministry of Education, Israel, Yad-Eliahu, Tel-Aviv, Israel;Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Venue:
Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Attracting young students to computer science studies has always been a challenge. We present a unique outreach program: the Beaver international contest on informatics and computer fluency that was established with the goal to convey computing concepts to as many youngsters as possible in a way that can motivate them to be more interested in computing. For the last few years the contest has been operating in several countries in Europe (http://www.bebras.org). Recently, in order to attract youngsters to study computer science, the Beaver project was initiated in Israel by adapting its framework to the requirements of the national educational system.