The beaver contest
Bruria Haberman, Avi Adam Cohen, Valentina Dagienė · 2011
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.