ACS Programmers Ace Inernational Challenge

Two ACS participants achieved excellent ranking in this year’s prestigious Bebras challenge. 8th grader Philip Cherganski took fifth place and 9th grader Metody Gachev reached 15th place out of 239 participants. Both students are members of the Advanced Programming after-class activity.

Bebras is an international initiative whose goal is promoting informatics and computational thinking, especially among teachers and pupils of all ages, and also to the public at large by extent. The Bebras initiative originated in Lithuania in 2004 and has spread over every continent since. It organizes online challenges made up of a set of short questions, often “funny” and easy to understand. Since interactivity is germane to computers, this computer-oriented contest applies interactive elements to explain or solve tasks.

Philip and Metody were among five ACS participants who took this year’s challenge.