Lawrence makes the final of a computational thinking challenge set by the University of Oxford

Year 7 pupil, Lawrence Moore, was invited to the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford last weekend as a finalist in a UK-wide competition – The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.
 
Reaching the final of the Juniors (10–12) age group is an impressive achievement, as 79,986 students entered the first round for this age group. Lawrence was among the top 61 highest achieving pupils invited to the final round in his age group and was presented with his finalist’s certificate by Peter Millican, Professor of Philosophy, at a prize-giving ceremony at Hertford College.
 
The UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge, supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, is designed to get pupils 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, pupils have to try and solve as many problems as possible in the allotted time. There are six age categories. The highest scoring pupils 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.