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The beaver contest: attracting youngsters to study computing

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Bruria Haberman,

Avi Cohen,

Valentina DagieneAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999891

Published: 27 June 2011 Publication History

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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.

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ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2011

418 pages

ISBN:9781450306973

DOI:10.1145/1999747

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Guido Rößling
TU Darmstadt, Germany
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University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA
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Christian Spannagel
PH Heidelberg, Germany

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