Beavers Computing introduces computer science to students. It is designed to excite students with little or no prior experience in computing. It is a problem-solving contest with a focus on computational and logical thinking. Topics inspire questions in computer science but only require comfort with concepts found in mathematics curriculum common to all provinces.

Several organizations across the globe conduct the same contest. Because of a few fundamental issues in how CEMC and Waterloo University conduct this contest, we decided to participate with Bebras USA. This gave us more flexibility to run the contest and allowed more students to win. However, CEMC's approach of providing awards to just 25% of the students in a school would need to be reconsidered for organizations like ours with extraordinary talent. As a result of fair assessment across all participants, 64% of our students won awards, and many more scored above the 50 percentile.

Here is a quick comparison of the average of CKSTEM students vs. all Bebras participants.

Students can check their scores by logging in to https://challenge.bebraschallenge.org. Certificates will be posted in the student folders in the coming days.

Kits (Age 6-8)

• Adhityaa Madhavan (Best in School)
• Larika Gupta (Distinction)

Castors (Age 8-10)

• Nithya Puttamraju (Best in School, Perfect Score)
• Nishi Patel (Distinction)
• Ganeev Mehndiratta (Distinction)
• Almira Zia (Distinction)
• Madhav Goyal (Distinction)
• Dhrithi Andey (Top 50%)

Benjamins (Age 10-12)

• Aadya Rayala (Best in School)
• Hayden Bhairo (Distinction)
• Karm Patel (Distinction)
• Atharva Kumar (Distinction)
• Tanishka Chinthamaneni (Distinction)
• Reyansh Negi (Distinction)
• Bhavyah Rajkumar (Distinction)
• Auloky Patel (Top 50%)
• Kean Choudari (Top 50%)
• Amogh Ingole (Top 50%)

Cadets (Age 12-14)

• Shounak Nerlekar (Best in School)
• Aikaterina Moukas (Distinction)
• Vignesh Akundi (Distinction)
• Mahi Patel (Distinction)
• Shreenandita Das (Distinction)
• Inaaya Zia (Distinction)

Juniors (Age 14-16)

• Ansh Agarwal (Best in School)
• Ananthaa Madhavan (Best in School)
• Vivan Patil (Distinction)
• Ashwin Sankar (Top 50%)

What a fantastic performance team. We are very proud of you. Congratulations Beavers!