02 Jul 2024

conducted a pilot experiment, in which 779 students participated in the pilot schools. Its aim was to verify the technologies chosen for the challenge and evaluate the level of the problems presented. A month later, it was officially launched, with the first Lithuanian Bebras Challenge, in which 3,470 students from 146 schools participated . In 2011, France, Hungary and Slovenia joined the Bebras Challenge, and in 2012, Japan witnessed the first participation from a non-European country; followed by pilot challenges in Belgium, Canada, Cyprus and Spain, and other countries joining the Bebras community such as Bulgaria, Sweden and Taiwan. Among the Arab and Middle Eastern countries, Saudi Arabia took the lead through the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) participating in its first official edition (2020), with honorable participation exceeding 8,539 male and female students from public education, and the attendance of more than 18,000 from across the country at the closing ceremony to crown the winners.