BMC is an international remote competition with an interest in information thought, logic, and computational thinking among school students., Participants are more than two million students from over 70 countries. BMC is the main entrance to the Mawhiba International Olympiad Program within the Saudi Informatics Team, where Saudi students will be selected from the intermediate stage only according to the program conditions.

- The challenge is managed using PCs and laptops

Objectives

1. Promote problem-solving skills and informatics concepts, including the ability to turn hard problems into easy elements, and to identify such principles pertaining to algorithms, patterns, and abstraction;
2. Test the student's ability to think about solving problems;
3. Learn methodological solution methods indirectly; and
4. Solve as many problems as possible in the prescribed time limit.

It is a set of short online problems, called the Bebras Challenge. Tasks are funny, engaging, and interactive and can be solved without prior knowledge, rather require logical thinking.

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We strive in view of introduction to develop the idea of "Bebras" challenge, which first came into light in Lithuania by Professor Valentina Dageni from Vilnius University. Dageni thought in one of his trips to Finland in 2003 about how to attract students to learn "informatics" in a problem-solving way full of challenge, persistence, joy, and seriousness. The Professor was known to be associated with "beavers” in an uninterrupted relationship of admiration, imagination, and challenge, so much so that he proposed the challenge symbol in his name in Lithuanian; “Bebras"!. Goals of Professor Valentina covered to set “Bebras” up as an international initiative for informatics learning across schools. As a first step, he managed to launch the initiative in Lithuania on September 25, 2004, when he conducted a pilot experiment, with 779 students taking part in the experimental schools. The goal was to verify the techniques selected for the challenge and assess the level of problems presented..  A month later, the initiative was officially launched, by way of conducting the first challenge for the Lithuanian Bebras, with the participation of 3470 students from 146 schools. 

Professor Valentina and his team then worked to spread the competition and the exciting challenge all over the globe. Several European countries joined the challenge, with Estonia, Germany, Netherlands, and Poland being the first to join in 2006, followed by Austria, Latvia, and Slovakia in 2007. The Czech Republic and Ukraine started the Bebras Challenges in 2008, followed by Italy in 2009, and Finland and Switzerland in 2010. 

In 2011, France, Hungary, and Slovenia joined the Bebras challenge, and in 2012 Japan was the first non-European country to join the competition. This was followed by experimental challenges in Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, and Spain, and other countries joined Bebras community such as Bulgaria, Sweden, and Taiwan. At the level of Arab countries and ME, KSA took the lead through King Abdulaziz Foundation for Giftedness & Creativity "Mawhiba"; taking part in its first official edition (2020), with honorable engagements that exceeded 8539 students from general education, and presence of 18k+ students at the closing ceremony to crown the winners."

"Bebras" is an international competition on information thought, logic, and computational thinking among school students. It promotes problem-solving skills and informatics concepts, including the ability to turn hard problems into easy elements, and to identify such principles pertaining to algorithms, patterns, and abstraction. Today, 2+ million students from more than 60 countries participate annually.

The competition is called the "Bebras Challenge" because it's a collection of short problems and problem-based tasks that “computer” scientists often meet on and enjoy their solving together in an enjoyable and engaging way.
In conclusion, "Bebras" is today one of the multiple investments of King Abdulaziz & his Companions Foundation for Giftedness & Creativity "Mawhiba" targeting gifted people potential across KSA, and forms an important input to the skill development "Mawhiba" ecosystem for the national team that participates with distinction in the International Olympiad in Informatics. Bebras undoubtedly follows suit their methodology according to renewable qualitative scientific techniques and state-of-the-art international practices towards developing a national ecosystem, investing in the potentials of our country's talented and creative people with care and enablement.