We are always so proud of all of our OJCS students, their interests and motivation to accept challenges when they are presented to them.

This year, the OJCS participated in the 2024 Beaver Computing Challenge 2024, that is created and organized through The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing at the University of Waterloo. This marks the 5th consecutive year that OJCS participated in this event. Click here for a previous blog post with more information about the BCC contest and its benefits and connections to learning and computer science.

Each and every day, we continue to be amazed by the attitude, mindset, and stamina in which the students display in anticipation for this challenge. Again this year, students in Grades 5 through 8 wrote respective contests at their grade levels, and also again this year, some students really displayed our Floor No Ceiling north star by also participating in the grade level above, including the grade 9/10 contest, as well as some grade 4 students who participated in the Grade 5/6 challenge.

This year’s results were nothing but amazing- once again for our school and students. The OJCS students achieved higher than the North American average on both the 5/6 and 7/8 contests, with over 26 000 students that participated worldwide, with a student at the 5/6 level achieving a perfect score!

Congratulations!

If you are curious to see what the questions were this year, try some out at home as a family, (solutions attached), you can find the direct link to each of the 2024 BCC Contests here. Also within each packet(link) is the direct connection to each question as how it pertains to computer science.

Well done OJCS students!!!

5/6 (Contest Questions-Solutions-Connections)

7/8 (Contest Questions-Solutions-Connections)

9/8 (Contest Questions-Solutions-Connections)

stay tuned….

…..more contests in other forms are still yet to come in 2025!