Results of the Bebras Talent 2025: Record-breaking numbers and winners announced tomorrow
The "Bebras Mawhiba 2025" competition achieved an unprecedented milestone in its history, setting record numbers that reflect the growing societal and educational awareness of the importance of computer science and information technology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This year's edition witnessed a significant leap in the number of participants, with registrations rising to 70,048 students, compared to 47,589 in 2024, representing a growth rate of 47%. The increase was not limited to registrations; the number of actual test takers also jumped from 39,571 to 60,519, an increase exceeding 52%.
Announcing the winners and performance indicators
The King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) is set to announce tomorrow the names of the students who won gold, silver, and bronze medals. The announcement will include a comprehensive set of data and detailed statistical indicators illustrating the geographical and educational distribution of the results, thus measuring the competition's direct impact on developing students' logical thinking and analytical skills.
Bebras: A global gateway to the digital future
The Bebras competition derives its importance from being an international initiative launched to promote informatics and computational thinking among school students. Today, it is one of the world's largest competitions in this field, with more than two million students from over 70 countries participating annually. This competition serves as the primary gateway for discovering emerging digital talents and preparing them to participate in international Olympiads, such as the International Olympiad in Informatics.
Alignment with the Kingdom's Vision 2030
This growing interest aligns with the goals of Saudi Vision 2030 to build a digital society and a knowledge-based economy. Through these competitions, Mawhiba aims to invest in human capital and prepare a generation capable of engaging with the language of the modern age by fostering understanding of algorithms, patterns, and abstraction without requiring prior knowledge of complex programming languages in the early stages.
Competition mechanism and target groups
The "Bebras Mawhiba" competition targets a wide range of students, from the third grade of primary school to the third grade of secondary school. The competition is characterized by its flexibility, as the test is conducted electronically and remotely via a specialized platform, thus providing equal opportunities for students from different regions of the Kingdom to participate and showcase their abilities in solving complex problems in creative and systematic ways.
