Our two talented students Cathy and Alex were invited to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford on the weekend of 10­–11 February as finalists in a UK-wide computing competition – The UK BEBRAS Computational Thinking Challenge.

Reaching the final round of the Challenge is an impressive achievement, as 71,146 students entered the first round for the Intermediate age group (12–14) and 41,372 students entered the first round for the Junior age group (10–12). Cathy and Alex were among the top 60 highest achieving students invited to the final rounds in their age groups, and were presented with their finalist’s certificates at prizegiving ceremonies at Hertford College.

The UK BEBRAS Computational Thinking Challenge, supported by Google, is designed to get students excited about computing and computational thinking. It is a problem-solving contest with questions inspired by topics in computer science. In the first round, held in their own schools, students have to try and solve as many problems as possible in the allotted time. There are six age categories. The highest scoring students from the four oldest age groups (Elite, Senior, Intermediate, and Junior) were then invited to the Department of Computer Science at Oxford for the finals over two weekends in January and February.

Cathy and Alex receiving their final round certificates from Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, University of Oxford.

我校学生Cathy 和Alex 成功入围英国BEBRAS计算思维挑战赛决赛，受邀于2月10-11日前往牛津大学计算机科学学院接受颁奖。

两位优秀的德威学生分别在12-14岁组71146名和10 – 12岁组41372名进入首轮比赛的选手中脱颖而出，以前60名的傲人成绩进入所在年龄组决赛。他们在牛津大学哈福特学院举行的颁奖仪式上授予了决赛选手证书。

英国BEBRAS计算思维挑战赛意旨于激发学生对计算和计算思维的兴趣，并得到了谷歌的大力支持。该赛事以解决围绕计算机科学主题相关问题的形式展开，共分为六个不同年龄组别。其中来自最高四个年龄组的优胜选手有幸参加于一月和二月周末在牛津大学计算机科学学院举办的决赛。

附图为Cathy 与Alex 接受由牛津大学哈福特学院哲学系教授Peter Millican 颁发的决赛证书。