Dear Teachers,
We hope your students enjoyed their participation in the Irish Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge 2020. The number of participants in Irish Schools who took part in the Official challenge increased on last years 6,882 participants in the Official Challenge to 9,556 this year!! The gender balance of these participants was nicely balanced with:
Female - 43%
Male - 41%
Unknown - 16%
The results and certificates are now available for download.
Go to: https://bebraschallenge.techweek.ie/admin/
Login with your administrator username and password
Click Export files on the bottom left of the screen.
Download the scores
In the Export files window, click on OFFICIAL Bebras Challenge 2020 Results.xlsx link, this will download the file to Excel.
When clicked the link downloads a spreadsheet with a list of all the students that participated and shows you what each students score was per question. Minus points mean they answered the Medium or Hard questions incorrectly as per the scoring rubric here.
Download the certificates
In the Export files window, click on Testimonials for OFFICIAL Bebras Challenge 2020.pdf link, this will download an Adobe PDF file containing the personal certificates for all your students which you can print for your class.
If you sat the challenge with more than one age category of student you can download each of the pdf documents by age category or alternatively all certificates in one pdf file, as outlined above.
Statistics
You can also find statistics by pressing the Statistics button in the menu. It shows the average scores per age group for your school, county and the country.
Solutions for Official Challenge 2020
The challenge is currently in Review Mode: if students log on with their username and password, they can see what answer they gave and what the correct answer was.
Coordinators can log in with their admin accounts on the student challenge site and take the challenge in review mode also.
Alternatively, please see below links to an online page of the questions, answers and background information for the Official Bebras Challenge 2020. We encourage you to use these tasks and solutions with your class and to walk through the tasks with your students.
The password you will need to access these pages is: 19b498d15e
Note: This password should not be shared with any students.
Castors (Age 8-10) Tasks and Solutions
Benjamins (Age 10-12) Tasks and Solutions
Cadets (Age 12-14) Tasks and Solutions
Juniors (Age 14-16) Tasks and Solutions
Seniors (Age 16-18) Tasks and Solutions
We hope you enjoyed this challenge and hope to welcome you to the challenge again in 2021. If you have any questions please just let me know.
If you enjoyed this challenge your students may be interested in our other projects:
- The National Scratch Competition, entries open 1st December and the competition will be open to all school going ages, more details here.
- We would encourage you to get involved in Tech Week 2021, which takes place from 17th – 23rd April. Tech Week is Ireland’s festival of technology and we would encourage all schools to get involved by organising an activity or event in your school, more details here.
Kind regards,
Gillian
Bebras Ireland Team
