Students take part in Oxford University Computing Challenge

News - Feb 6

Last month, 194 of our students took part in the Oxford University Computing Challenge. This is an invite-only challenge and in order to qualify, students have to be in the top 10% of entrants to the Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.  This gives students a series of very demanding programming tasks and this is something for which students have to prepare. Therefore, simply qualifying and taking part demonstrates great scholarship.  

Despite this being such a tough challenge, we have a number of students who achieved very high scores.  

Merits are awarded to students to achieve between 25 and 39 points (about 7% of those who enter the challenge). A number of our students achieved this.  

Juniors:  

James C – Y7  

Samuel G – Y7  

Luke B – Y7  

Anna G – Y7  

George K – Y7  

Isla P – Y7  

Intermediates:  

Mari T – Y9  

Theo W – Y9  

Reginald D – Y9 

Grace X – Y8  

Seniors:  

Jerry M – Y11  

Alan S – Y11  

Edward C – Y11  

Elliot F – Y11  

Will M – Y11  

Donny G – Y11  

Emily T – Y10  

Emma R – Y11 

Distinctions are awarded to students who achieve 40 points or more (about 3% of those who enter the challenge). A number of our students achieved this.  

Juniors:  

Nathanael H – Y7  

Siddharth A – Y7  

Shreyas P – Y7  

Intermediates:  

Toby S – Y9  

Zion G – Y8  

Seniors:  

James L – Y11  

Benji O – Y10  

Daniel X – Y11 

Louis D-S – Y11 

Elliot W – Y11 

Luke T – Y11  

In addition to achieving this, four of our students have also been invited to take part in the final. Roughly 20 students in the country, from each age category, are invited to do this. We hope that you will join us in wishing Nathanael H, James L, Benji O and Daniel X good luck in this.  

Furthermore, James L achieved 100% in the first round of the Oxford University Computing Challenge.