Perfil dos premiados em Olimpíadas de Informática e sua influência sobre a Educação em Computação

Resumo

Attending computer science competitions aims at developing skills that contribute to the students school life, improving their performance in other disciplines, and promoting interest in solving day-to-day problems with computer artifacts. In this paper, we analyze data from Informatics Olympics medalists from Paraíba in 2016 and 2017, in order to identify their main practices and motivations which could influence other students to improve their own performances in this kind of competition and, thus, expand their potentials in Informatics.