Riyadh: The Bebras Mawhiba Informatics Competition 2025 has set a new record for participation, with 70,048 registrants this year, up by nearly 47 percent from 47,589 in 2024.
According to Saudi Press Agency, the number of participants who completed the tests also increased significantly, rising from 39,571 to 60,519, a growth of more than 52 percent, highlighting the competition's expanding reach and rising popularity among students.
King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba) announced that the winners of the gold, silver, and bronze medals will be revealed on Monday, alongside a comprehensive package of statistical indicators, including participation trends, score distributions, and insights into how the competition helps develop students' skills in computational thinking and problem-solving.
Bebras Mawhiba is part of an international contest conducted remotely, focusing on informatics, logic, and computational thinking for school students. The contest engages more than two million students from over 70 countries worldwide, encouraging young learners to develop critical skills for the digital age.
The competition is designed to enhance students' problem-solving abilities and understanding of informatics concepts, including the capacity to break complex problems into simpler components, recognize algorithms, identify patterns, and think systematically to devise solutions using creative and indirect approaches.
Targeted at students from third grade through high school, the contest is conducted via a dedicated online platform, allowing participation from anywhere in the Kingdom. It assesses skills in logical reasoning, abstract analysis, and creative solution-building.