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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b>BEBRAS </b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I would like to invite you and your students to participate in a pilot of <b>Bebras</b> - <b>Australia Computational Thinking Challenge.</b> This contest was created in Lithuania in 2004
and has already spread all around the world. The Lithuanian name Bebras – in English “beaver” – is connected with the hard-working, intelligent, goal seeking and lively animal living around lakes and rivers in Lithuania and other countries. It is an international
initiative to promote informatics among school students of all ages. The online challenge asks small, interesting questions that can be answered with no prior knowledge about informatics or computer science but are related to informatics concepts and require
thinking about information, computation, data processing and so on.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">I have provided a link with more information about Bebras and the link to some sample tasks (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/5micf2bbxe3czaq/Bebras_Australia_Pilot.pdf">https://www.dropbox.com/s/5micf2bbxe3czaq/Bebras_Australia_Pilot.pdf</a>). We
are planning to run the pilot (free, school-based, under teacher’s supervision) in March as a preparation for the first official Bebras Australia event in November 2014. If you would like to find out more about how you and your students can get involved please
feel free to contact Karsten Schulz (<a href="mailto:karsten.schulz@nicta.com.au"><span style="color: rgb(128, 27, 128);">karsten.schulz@nicta.com.au</span></a>) for more information. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">There is no cost associated with this Challenge.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We are looking forward to hearing from you soon!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cheers</p>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Therese</span></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Dr Therese Keane</span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Lecturer in ICT Skills Development</span></font><br>
<font face="Lucida Grande"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology</span></font></div>
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