Beaver Computational Thinking Competition is a prestigious informatics competition with nearly
2.8 million participants from more than 60 countries in 2020. Beaver has been endorsed by
Ministry of Education and there were more than 4,000 participants representing over 300
schools from all over Malaysia in 2020.
Assists students’
understanding of Teknologi
Maklumat dan Komunikasi
(TMK), Asas Sains Komputer
(ASK) and Sains Komputer
(SK) subjects through
problem solving.
Facilitates a deeper
understanding of information
technology.
Encourage students’ use of
information technologies in
their learning activities more
enthusiastically.
Supports the initiatives from
Ministry of Education in
integrating computational
thinking and computer
science into the classrooms
for the standardized KSSR and
KSSM.
Solves problems through
computational thinking using
computer-based solutions.
Cultivates students’ creativity,
information culture,
algorithmic and
computational thinking.
Engage children in
information technologies,
computers, and their
application from the very
beginning at school.
Prepares the students with a
good foundation in preparing
for future digital economy
jobs.
Reveal to students the
advantage of information
technologies that are helpful
in learning various subjects.
Who Should Participate?
All school students who would like to increase their computational thinking skills in problem solving.
With just the ability to think logically as well as having patience, students are more than equipped to join this competition.
No prior background in computer science is needed.
Categories
Public: Year 1 & 2
International: Year 1 & 2
Age 7 - 8
Public: Form 1 & 2
International: Year 7 & 8
Age 13 - 14
Public: Year 3 & 4
International: Year 3 & 4
Age 9 - 10
Public: Form 3 & 4
International: Year 9 & 10
Age 15 - 16
Public: Year 5 & 6
International: Year 5 & 6
Age 11 - 12
Public: Form 5 & 6
International: Year 11 & 12
Age 17 - 18
“Computational thinking will be a fundamental skill
used by everyone by the middle of the 21st century. Just
like reading, writing and arithmetic.”
Jeannette M. Wing
Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
“Education is not the learning of the facts, but the
training of the mind to think.”
Albert Einstein,
Theoretical Physicist
“The illiterate of the 21st century won’t be those who
can’t code, but those who don’t solve problems using a
combination of computational thinking with empathy,
intuition and creativity.”
Tara Swart
Neuroscientist and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan
“Children must be taught how to think not what to
think.”