The Castor Competition: 13 Students in Top 1% Worldwide!
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All students from Grades 6 to 11 (French Bac) recently took part in the Castor Competition, a computer science competition completed individually or in pairs. Competing against participants from other French schools around the world, 13 of our students placed in the top 1% of their grade levels! For 45 minutes, they attempted to answer 12 interactive questions, each one presented in three variations of difficulty and covering different themes: information representation, algorithmic thinking, use of applications, data structure, logic games and computing.
Congratulations to our top 1% of participants worldwide:
- In 6th-grade, ranking out of 107,519 students:
- Sam O.-B.: 182
- Rajai D.: 432
- Graham M.: 603
- Alix N.: 603
- Elliana J.: 794
- Liam G.: 794
- Charlie K.: 1,090
- Colin K.: 1,090
- Simon P.: 1,090
- In 7th-grade, ranking out of 109,320 students:
- Serene K.: 573
- In 9th-grade, ranking out of 36,462 students:
- Margot L. and Héloïse T.: 341
- In 10th-grade, ranking out of 47,330 students:
- Paul L.: 13 (top 0.03 %!)