{"id":43456,"date":"2026-03-09T21:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.steinmuehle.de\/blog\/2026\/03\/09\/outperforming-the-informatik-biber-joel-and-emil-beat-the-highest-score\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:32:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:32:44","slug":"outperforming-the-informatik-biber-joel-and-emil-beat-the-highest-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/blog\/2026\/03\/09\/outperforming-the-informatik-biber-joel-and-emil-beat-the-highest-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Outperforming the &#8220;Informatik-Biber&#8221;: Joel and Emil Beat the Highest Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default-style\">With a performance that far exceeded the standard required for first place, Steinm\u00fchlen students Joel (left) and Emil (both in 6a) impressed the judges at the Germany-wide Informatik-Biber competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default-style\">Among the 204,150 participants in grades 5 and 6, they were ultimately among the nearly 2 percent who took home a first prize. That required 117 points\u2014but Joel and Emil scored 144! <\/p>\n<p class=\"default-style\">The two classmates had worked together as a team on the same screen\u2014and that clearly worked out wonderfully, said computer science teacher Steffen Ullwer. Like his two students, he, too, was awarded a certificate for this remarkable achievement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default-style\">All we can say is: Hats off to such talent in computer science! We\u2019re sure we\u2019ll be hearing even more from you in the future. <\/p>\n<p><em>(Angela Heinemann)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38421 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/IMG_0712-1030x773.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-38422 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_0716-1030x773.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1030\" height=\"773\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a performance that far exceeded the standard required for first place, Steinm\u00fchlen students Joel (left) and Emil (both in 6a) impressed the judges at the Germany-wide Informatik-Biber competition. Among the 204,150 participants in grades 5 and 6, they were ultimately among the nearly 2 percent who took home a first prize. That required 117 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":43457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,85,105,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contests-awards","category-news","category-stem","category-talent-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53812,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43456\/revisions\/53812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steinmuehle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}