A TALENTED pupil from Weaverham High School was a finalist in a computational thinking challenge in the University of Oxford.
Daniel Cameron was invited to the Department of Computer Science at the university on Saturday, February 16 as a finalist in a UK-wide competition, The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.
Daniel made it to the final 60 out of 101,342 pupils in the intermediate group and he was presented with his finalist’s certificate at a prize-giving ceremony 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 and the highest scoring students from the four oldest age groups (Elite, Seniors, Intermediate, and Juniors) were then invited to the Department of Computer Science at Oxford for the finals over two weekends in February.
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