SAMISians bag medals in Bebras Competition

by Sedrah Mohammed

With pride and honor three (3) Samisians bagged medals in the recently concluded Bebras competition last December 18, 2021.

Wasan Khaled Ismaeel won silver, Reem Ahmad Alsayes Shaltot and Lina Adel Muhammad captured bronze medals in their respective categories.

Bebras is an international contest that aims to promote informatics and computational thinking among students at all ages. The Bebras challenge promotes problem solving skills and Informatics concepts including the ability to break down complex tasks into simpler components, algorithm design, pattern recognition, pattern generalization and abstraction. The online competition was participated by middle school to high school students where they completed different challenges with corresponding points.

Problems emanated due to the intense number of logins occurred across the country which made the site crashed down and left SAMIS participants worried. But this problem was later on solved by providing the participant an hour timer which only began after the competitor had successfully joined the contest.

“The students have the experience and they are already knowledgeable about it. What makes me proud of them even more is their initiative to train even at home” – said Ms. Shiela May B. Po, one of the coaches. We congratulate these participants for their excellent efforts and sportsmanship, and all the best to the next SAMIS competitors!