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Announcing our Google Code-in 2019 Winners!

Google Code-in (GCI) 2019 was epic in every regard. Not only did we celebrate 10 years of the Google Code-in program, but we also broke all of our previous records for the program. It was a very, very busy seven weeks for everyone—we had 3,566 students from 76 countries complete 20,840 tasks with a record 29 open source organizations!

We want to congratulate all of the students who took part in this year’s 10th anniversary of Google Code-in. Great job!

Today we are excited to announce the Grand Prize Winners, Runners Up, and Finalists with each organization.

The 58 Grand Prize Winners completed an impressive 2,158 tasks while also helping other students.

Each of the Grand Prize Winners will be awarded a four-day trip to Google’s campus in northern California to meet with Google engineers, one of the mentors they worked with during the contest, and enjoy some fun in California with the other winners. We look forward to seeing these winners in a few months!

Grand Prize Winners

The Grand Prize Winners hail from 21 countries, listed by full name alphabetically below:

Name	Organization	Country
Aayushman Choudhary	JBoss Community	India
Abdur-Raheem Idowu	Haiku	Norway
Abhinav Kaushlya	The Julia Programming Language	India
Aditya Vardhan Singh	The ns-3 Network Simulator project	India
Anany Sachan	OpenWISP	India
Andrea Gonzales	Sugar Labs	Malaysia
Anmol Jhamb	Fedora Project	India
Aria Vikram	Open Roberta	India
Artur Grochal	Drupal	Poland
Bartłomiej Pacia	Systers, An AnitaB.org Community	Poland
Ben Houghton	Wikimedia	United Kingdom
Benjamin Amos	The Terasology Foundation	United Kingdom
Chamindu Amarasinghe	SCoRe Lab	Sri Lanka
Danny Lin	CCExtractor Development	United States
Diogo Fernandes	Apertium	Luxembourg
Divyansh Agarwal	AOSSIE	India
Duc Minh Nguyen	Metabrainz Foundation	Vietnam
Dylan Iskandar	Liquid Galaxy	United States
Emilie Ma	Liquid Galaxy	Canada
Himanshu Sekhar Nayak	BRL-CAD	India
Jayaike Ndu	CloudCV	Nigeria
Jeffrey Liu	BRL-CAD	United States
Joseph Semrai	SCoRe Lab	United States
Josh Heng	Circuitverse.org	United Kingdom
Kartik Agarwala	The ns-3 Network Simulator project	India
Kartik Singhal	AOSSIE	India
Kaustubh Maske Patil	CloudCV	India
Kim Fung	The Julia Programming Language	United Kingdom
Kumudtiha Karunarathna	FOSSASIA	Sri Lanka
M.Anantha Vijay	Circuitverse.org	India
Maathavan Nithiyananthan	Apertium	Sri Lanka
Manuel Alcaraz Zambrano	Wikimedia	Spain
Naman Modani	Copyleft Games	India
Navya Garg	OSGeo	India
Neel Gopaul	Drupal	Mauritius
Nils André	CCExtractor Development	United Kingdom
Paraxor	Fedora Project	United Arab Emirates
Paweł Sadowski	OpenWISP	Poland
Pola Łabędzka	Systers, An AnitaB.org Community	Poland
Pranav Karthik	FOSSASIA	Canada
Pranay Joshi	OSGeo	India
Prathamesh Mutkure	OpenMRS	India
Pratish Rai	R Project for Statistical Computing	India
Pun Waiwitlikhit	The Mifos Initiative	Thailand
Rachit Gupta	The Mifos Initiative	India
Rafał Bernacki	Haiku	Poland
Ray Ma	OpenMRS	New Zealand
Rick Wierenga	TensorFlow	Netherlands
Sayam Sawai	JBoss Community	India
Sidaarth “Sid” Sabhnani	Copyleft Games	United States
Srevin Saju	Sugar Labs	Bahrain
Susan He	Open Roberta	Australia
Swapneel Singh	The Terasology Foundation	India
Sylvia Li	Metabrainz Foundation	New Zealand
Umang Majumder	R Project for Statistical Computing	India
Uzay Girit	Public Lab	France
Vladimir Mikulic	Public Lab	Bosnia and Herzegovina
William Zhang	TensorFlow	United States

Runners Up

And a big kudos to our 58 Runners Up from 20 countries. They will receive a GCI backpack, jacket and a GCI tshirt. The Runners Up are listed alphabetically by First name below:

Name	Organization	Name	Organization
Adev Saputra	Drupal	Kunal Bhatia	Score Lab
Adrian Serapio	R Project for Statistical Computing	Laxya Pahuja	The Mifos Initiative
Alberto Navalón Lillo	Apertium	Łukasz Zbrzeski	Score Lab
Alvii_07	Liquid Galaxy	Madhav Mehndiratta	Fedora Project
Amar Fadil	OpenWISP	Marcus Chong	Sugar Labs
Ananya Gangavarapu	TensorFlow	Mateusz Samkiewicz	JBoss Community
Andrey Shcherbakov	Wikimedia	Maya Farber Brodsky	CCExtractor Development
Antara Bhattacharya	Metabrainz Foundation	Michał Piechowiak	Fedora Project
Anthony Zhou	Public Lab	Moodhunt	Metabrainz Foundation
Bartosz Dokurno	Circuitverse.org	Muhammad Wasif	FOSSASIA
Ching Lam Choi	The Julia Programming Language	name not shown	Haiku
Chirag Bhansali	AOSSIE	Nathan Taylor	Sugar Labs
Chiranjiv Singh Malhi	BRL-CAD	Nishanth Thumma	Open Roberta
Daksha Aeer	Systers, An AnitaB.org Community	Panagiotis Vasilopoulos	Haiku
Devansh Khetan	OpenMRS	Rachin Kalakheti	TensorFlow
Dhanus SL	OSGeo	Regan Iwadha	JBoss Community
Dhhyey Desai	AOSSIE	Ribhav Sharma	OpenMRS
Eric Xue	Copyleft Games	Richard Botez	Open Roberta
Eryk Mikołajek	BRL-CAD	Rishabh Verma	The Mifos Initiative
Hannah Guo	The Terasology Foundation	Rishank Kanaparti	Copyleft Games
Harsh Khandeparkar	Public Lab	Rishi R	R Project for Statistical Computing
Hirochika Matsumoto	CloudCV	Sai Putravu	The ns-3 Network Simulator project
Ilya Maier	Systers, An AnitaB.org Community	Samuel Sloniker	Apertium
Irvan Ayush Chengadu	Drupal	Shivam Rai	OSGeo
Jakub Niklas	The Terasology Foundation	Siddharth Sinha	FOSSASIA
Jun Rong Lam	Circuitverse.org	Soumitra Shewale	The Julia Programming Language
Karol Ołtarzewski	OpenWISP	Stanisław Howard	The ns-3 Network Simulator project
Kripa Kini	Liquid Galaxy	Suryansh Pathak	CloudCV
Krzysztof Krysiński	CCExtractor Development	Taavi Väänänen	Wikimedia

Finalists

And a hearty congratulations to our 58 Finalists from 20 countries. The finalists will win a special GCI jacket and a GCI tshirt. They are listed alphabetically by first name below:

Name	Organization	Name	Organization
Abinav Chari	CloudCV	Musab Kılıç	CCExtractor Development
Andre Christoga Pramaditya	CloudCV	Nail Anıl Örcün	The Terasology Foundation
Anish Agnihotri	OSGeo	Natalie Shapiro	Circuitverse.org
Aryan Gulati	FOSSASIA	Nate Clark	The Terasology Foundation
Ayush Sharma	Fedora Project	Nicholas Gregory	Wikimedia
Ayush Sharma	SCoRe Lab	Nikita Ermishin	OpenWISP
Daniel Oluojomu	JBoss Community	Nishith P	FOSSASIA
Dhruv Baronia	TensorFlow	Oliver Fogelin	R Project for Statistical Computing
Diana Hernandez	Systers, An AnitaB.org Community	Oussama Hassini	The Mifos Initiative
Gambali Seshasai Chaitanya	Apertium	Param Nayar	Copyleft Games
Hao Liu	R Project for Statistical Computing	Peter Terpstra	The ns-3 Network Simulator project
Hardik Jhalani	Systers, An AnitaB.org Community	Piyush Sharma	The Mifos Initiative
Hrishikesh Patil	OpenMRS	Robert Chen	Public Lab
Jackson Lewis	The ns-3 Network Simulator project	Rohan Cherivirala	Open Roberta
Jan Rosa	Wikimedia	Ruixuan Tu	Haiku
Janiru Hettiarachchi	Liquid Galaxy	Saptashwa Mandal	Drupal
Janiru Wijekoon	Metabrainz Foundation	Sashreek Magan	Sugar Labs
Joshua Yang	Apertium	Sauhard Jain	AOSSIE
Kevin Liu	Open Roberta	Sharman Maheshwari	SCoRe Lab
Krishna Rama Rao	AOSSIE	Sumagna Das	BRL-CAD
Li Chen	Fedora Project	Tanvir Singh	OSGeo
Madhav Shekhar Sharma	The Julia Programming Language	Techno-Disaster	CCExtractor Development
Mbah Javis	TensorFlow	Thusal Ranawaka	BRL-CAD
Merul Dhiman	Liquid Galaxy	Vivek Mishra	Copyleft Games
Michelle (Wai Man) Lo	OpenMRS	Yu Fai Wong	JBoss Community
Mihir Bhave	OpenWISP	Yuqi Qiu	Metabrainz Foundation
Mohit S A	Circuitverse.org	Zakhar Vozmilov	Public Lab
Mokshit Jain	Drupal	Zakiyah Hasanah	Sugar Labs
Mudit Somani	The Julia Programming Language	Zoltán Szatmáry	Haiku

Our 794 mentors, the heart and soul of GCI, are the reason the contest thrives. Mentors volunteer their time to help these bright students become open source contributors. They spend hundreds of hours during their holiday breaks answering questions, reviewing submitted tasks, and welcoming the students to their communities. GCI would not be possible without their dedication, patience and tireless efforts.

We will post more numbers from GCI 2019 here on the Google Open Source Blog over the next few weeks, so please stay tuned.

Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winners, Runners Up, Finalists, and all of the students who spent the last couple of months learning about, and contributing to, open source. We hope they will continue their journey in open source!

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

Google Code-in 2019 Contest for Teenagers

Today is the start of the 10th consecutive year of the Google Code-in (GCI) contest for teens. We anticipate this being the biggest contest yet!

The Basics

What is Google Code-in?
Our global, online contest introducing students to open source development. The contest runs for seven weeks until January 23, 2020.

Who can register?
Pre-university students ages 13-17 that have their parent or guardian’s permission to register for the contest.

How do students register and participate?
Students can register for the contest beginning today at g.co/gci. Once students have registered, and the parental consent form has been submitted and approved by Program Administrators, students can choose which “task” they want to work on first. Students choose the task they find interesting from a list of thousands of available tasks created by 29 participating open source organizations. Tasks take an average of 3-5 hours to complete. There are even beginner tasks that are a wonderful way for students to get started in the contest.

The task categories are:

Coding
Design
Documentation/Training
Outreach/Research
Quality Assurance

Why should students participate?
Students not only have the opportunity to work on a real open source software project, thus gaining invaluable skills and experience, but they also have the opportunity to be a part of the open source community. Mentors are readily available to help answer their questions while they work through the tasks.

Google Code-in is a contest so there are prizes*! Complete one task and receive a digital certificate, three completed tasks and you’ll also get a fun Google t-shirt. Finalists earn a jacket, runners-up earn backpacks, and grand prize winners (two from each organization) will receive a trip to Google headquarters in California in 2020!

Details
Over the past nine years, more than 11,000 students from 108 countries have successfully completed over 55,000 tasks in GCI. Curious? Learn more about GCI by checking out the Contest Rules, short videos, and FAQs. Please visit our contest site and read the Getting Started Guide.

Teachers, if you are interested in getting your students involved in Google Code-in we have resources available to help you get started.

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source

* There are a handful of countries we are unable to ship physical goods to, as listed in the FAQs.

Source: Google Open Source Blog

The 2019 GCI Organizations!

We are excited to welcome 29 open source organizations to mentor students as part of Google Code-in 2019. The contest, now in its tenth year, offers students ages 13-17 from around the world, an opportunity to learn and practice their coding skills while contributing to open source projects—all virtually!

Google Code-in starts for students on December 2nd this year! Students are encouraged to research and learn about the participating organizations ahead of time. You can get started by clicking on the links below:

Apertium – A free/open-source machine translation platform.

Australian Open Source Software Innovation and Education – Australian umbrella organization for open-source projects.

BRL-CAD – Computer graphics, 3D modeling, 3D printing, and rendering!

CCExtractor Development – Accessibility tools with a focus on subtitles.

CircuitVerse.org – Have fun exploring logic circuits right from your browser!

CloudCV – Make AI research more reproducible.

Copyleft Games – Tools and engines for making games.

Drupal – Content management software used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day.

Fedora Project – Advance Free/Open Source Software and content.

FOSSASIA – Developing open source software applications and open hardware together with a global developer community from its base in Asia, improving people’s lives and create a sustainable future.

Haiku – Operating system that specifically targets personal computing.

JBoss Community – Community of open source projects primarily written in Java.

Liquid Galaxy project – A remarkable panoramic system and visualization tool.

MetaBrainz Foundation – Crowd sourced open data projects: MusicBrainz, BookBrainz, ListenBrainz, AcousticBrainz, CritiqueBrainz and Cover Art Archive.

Open Roberta – Online IDE introducing kids to the world of coding by teaching them how to program robots with NEPO®.

OpenMRS – Write Code, Save Lives — Open source medical records platform improving health-care in resource-constrained environments.

OpenWISP – Network management system aimed at low cost networks: from public wifi, to university wifi, mesh networks and IoT.

OSGeo – An umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community.

Public Lab – Open hardware and software to help communities measure and analyze pollution.

R Project for Statistical Computing – R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

SCoRe Lab – Research lab that seeks sustainable solutions for various problems in developing countries.

Sugar Labs – Learning platform and activities for elementary education.

Systers, an AnitaB.org community – Helping women find their potential in code. You are not alone.

TensorFlow – An open-source machine learning framework for everyone.

The Julia Programming Language – A fresh approach to Technical Computing.

The Mifos Initiative – FinTech non-profit leveraging the cloud, mobile, and open source community to deliver digital financial services to the world’s 3 billion poor and underbanked.

The ns-3 Network Simulator Project – A discrete event network simulator for Internet systems, research, and education.

The Terasology Foundation – An open source voxel world - imagine the possibilities! Makers of video games and a small slew of libraries & frameworks for game development.

Wikimedia – The non-profit foundation dedicated to bringing free content to the world, operating Wikipedia and maintaining the MediaWiki software.

These 29 organizations are working diligently to create thousands of tasks for students to work on, including code, documentation, design, quality assurance, outreach, research and training tasks. The contest starts for students on December 2nd.

You can learn more about GCI on the contest site where you’ll find Frequently Asked Questions, Important Dates and other helpful information, including the Getting Started Guide.

Want to chat with other students, mentors, and organization administrations about the contest? Check out our discussion mailing list. We can’t wait to get started!

By Radha Jhatakia, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

Google Code-in 2019 Org Applications are Open!

We are now accepting applications for open source organizations interested in participating in the tenth Google Code-in 2019. Google Code-in (GCI) has invited pre-university students ages 13-17 to learn hands-on by contributing to open source software.

Each year we have heard inspiring stories from the participating mentors about their commitment to working with young students. We only select organizations that have participated in Google Summer of Code because they have gained experience in mentorship and know how to provide a support system for these new, young contributors.

Organization applications are now open and all interested open source organizations must apply before Monday, October 28, 2019 at 17:00 UTC.

In 2018, 27 organizations were accepted—9 of which were participating in GCI for the first time! Over the last 9 years, 11,232 students from 108 countries have completed more than 40,000 tasks for participating open source projects. Tasks fall into 5 categories:

Code: writing or refactoring.
Documentation/Training: creating/editing documents and helping others learn more.
Outreach/Research: community management, outreach/marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions.
Quality Assurance: testing and ensuring code is of high quality.
Design: graphic design or user interface design.

Once an organization is selected for Google Code-in 2019 they will define these tasks and recruit mentors from their communities who are interested in providing online support for students during the seven week contest.

You can find a timeline, FAQ and other information about Google Code-in on our website. If you’re an educator interested in sharing Google Code-in with your students, please see the resources here.

By Radha Jhatakia, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

Google Summer of Code 2019 (Statistics Part 2)

2019 has been an epic year for Google Summer of Code as we celebrated 15 years of connecting university students from around the globe with 201 open source organizations big and small.

We want to congratulate our 1,134 students that complete GSoC 2019. Great work everyone!

Now that GSoC 2019 is over we would like to wrap up the program with some more statistics to round out the year.

Student Registrations

We had 30,922 students from 148 countries register for GSoC 2019 (that’s a 19.5% increase in registrations over last year, the previous record). Interest in GSoC clearly continues to grow and we’re excited to see it growing in all parts of the world.

For the first time ever we had students register from Bhutan, Fiji, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, South Sudan, and Swaziland.

Universities

The 1,276 students accepted into the GSoC 2019 program hailed from 6586 universities, of which, 164 have students participating for the first time in GSoC.

Schools with the most accepted students for GSoC 2019:

University	# of Accepted Students
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee	48
International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad	29
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani)	27
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU Dwarka)	20
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur	19
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur	19
Amrita University / Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	14
Delhi Technological University	11
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay	11
Indraprastha Institute of Information and Technology, New Delhi	11

Mentors

Each year we pore over gobs of data to extract some interesting statistics about the GSoC mentors. Here’s a quick synopsis of our 2019 crew:

Registered mentors: 2,815
Mentors with assigned student projects: 2,066
Mentors who have participated in GSoC for 10 or more years: 70
Mentors who have been a part of GSoC for 5 years or more: 307
Mentors that are former GSoC students: 691
Mentors that have also been involved in the Google Code-in program: 498
Percentage of new mentors: 35.84%

GSoC 2019 mentors are from all parts of the world, representing 81 countries!

Every year thousands of GSoC mentors help introduce the next generation to the world of open source software development—for that we are forever grateful. We can not stress enough that without our invaluable mentors the GSoC program would not exist. Mentorship is why GSoC has remained strong for 15 years, the relationships built between students and mentors have helped sustain the program and many of these communities. Sharing their passion for open source, our mentors have paved the road for generations of contributors to enter open source development.

Thank you to all of our mentors, organization administrators, and all of the “unofficial” mentors that help in our open source organization’s communities. Google Summer of Code is a community effort and we appreciate each and every one of you.

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

Google Code-in 2019 is Right Around the Corner!

This year is the 10th anniversary of the Google Code-in (GCI) contest! Students ages 13–17, globally, can learn about open source development by working on real projects, with mentorship from active developers. GCI begins on December 2, 2019 and runs for seven weeks, ending January 23, 2020.

Google Code-in is unique because students have the autonomy to select what they’re interested in working on from 2,500+ tasks created by open source organizations, all while having mentors available to answer questions as they work on tasks.

There are many questions that developers of any age ask themselves when they initially get involved in open source; from where to start to whether they have the expertise to truly support the organization. The beauty of GCI lies in the participating open source organizations who realize teens are often first time contributors, leading mentors who volunteer to come prepared with the patience and experience to help these newcomers join the open source community.

New contributors bring fresh perspectives, ideas, and enthusiasm into their open source communities, helping them thrive. Throughout the last 9 years, 58 GCI organizations helped 11,000 students from 108 countries make real contributions to open source projects; and to this day may of those students continue to participate in various open source communities and many have become mentors themselves! Some have even gone on to join Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

Contest participants work on a varied level of tasks that require anywhere from beginner to advanced skills in the following five categories:

Code: writing or refactoring
Documentation/Training: creating/editing documents and helping others learn more
Outreach/Research: community management, marketing, or studying problems and recommending solutions
Quality Assurance: testing and ensuring code is of high quality
Design: graphic design or user interface design

Organizations that are interested in mentoring students, can apply for Google Code-in beginning Thursday, October 10th. Google Code-in starts for students Monday, December 2nd!
Visit the contest site g.co/gci to learn more about the contest and find flyers, slide decks, timelines, and more.

By Radha Jhatakia, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

Reflecting on Google Code-in 2018

Google Code-in (GCI), our contest introducing 13-17 year olds to open source software development, wrapped up last December with impressive numbers: 3,124 students from 77 countries completed an impressive 15,323 tasks!

These students spent 7 weeks working online with 27 open source organizations, writing code, writing and editing documentation, designing UI elements and logos, conducting research, developing videos teaching others about open source software, as well as finding (and fixing!) hundreds of bugs.

Overview

2,164 students completed three or more tasks (earning a Google Code-in 2018 t-shirt)
17% of students were girls
23% of the participants from the USA were girls
79% of students were first time participants in GCI
We saw very large increases in the number of students from Austria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Taiwan

Student Age

Participating Schools

Students from 1,673 schools competed in this year’s contest. Many students learn about GCI from their friends or teachers and continue to spread the word to their classmates. This year the 5 schools with the most students completing tasks in the contest were:

School Name	Number of Student Participants	Country
Dunman High School	110	Singapore
Indus E.M High School	73	India
Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School	69	India
Amity International School Sec-46 Gurgaon	36	India
Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Vidyashram Pratap Nagar	27	India

Countries

We are pleased to have 9 countries with first time Winners and Finalists. Winners from Georgia, Macedonia, Philippines, South Africa and Spain, and Finalists from Israel, Luxembourg, Nepal and Pakistan.

The chart below displays the 10 countries with the most students completing at least 1 task.

What's Next

In June we will welcome all 54 grand prize winners to the San Francisco Bay Area for a fun-filled trip. The trip includes the opportunity for students to meet with one of the mentors they worked with during the contest. Students will also take part in an awards ceremony, meet with Google engineers to hear about new and exciting projects, tours of the Google campuses and a fun day exploring San Francisco.

We are thrilled that Google Code-in was so popular this year. We hope to continue to grow and expand this contest in the future to introduce even more teenagers to the world of open source software development.

Thank you again to the heroes of this program: the 789 mentors from 57 countries that guided students through the program and welcomed them into their open source communities.

By Saranya Sampat, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

The big reveal: Google Code-in 2018 winners and finalists

Our 9th consecutive year of Google Code-in (GCI) 2018 ended in mid-December. It was a very, very busy seven weeks for everyone – we had 3,124 students from 77 countries completing 15,323 tasks with a record 27 open source organizations!

Today, we are pleased to announce the Google Code-in 2018 Grand Prize Winners and Finalists with each organization. The 54 Grand Prize Winners from 19 countries completed an impressive 1,668 tasks between them while also helping other students during the contest.

Each of the Grand Prize Winners are invited to a four day trip to Google’s main campus and San Francisco offices in Northern California where they’ll meet Google engineers, meet one of the mentors they worked with during the contest, and enjoy some fun in California with the other winners. We look forward to seeing everyone later this year!

Country	# of Winners	Country	# of Winners
Cameroon	1	Romania	1
Canada	1	Russian Federation	1
Czech Republic	1	Singapore	1
Georgia	1	South Africa	1
India	18	Spain	2
Indonesia	1	Sri Lanka	1
Macedonia	1	Ukraine	2
Netherlands	1	United Kingdom	6
Philippines	1	United States	9
Poland	4

Finalists

And a big congratulations to our 108 Finalists from 26 countries who completed over 2,350 tasks during the contest. The Finalists will all receive a special hoodie to commemorate their achievements in the contest. This year we had 1 student named as a finalist with 2 different organizations!

A breakdown of the countries represented by our finalists can be found below.

Country	# of Finalists	Country	# of Finalists
Canada	6	Philippines	1
China	2	Poland	15
Czech Republic	1	Russian Federation	2
Germany	1	Serbia	1
India	48	Singapore	2
Indonesia	2	South Korea	1
Israel	1	Spain	1
Kazakhstan	1	Sri Lanka	2
Luxembourg	1	Taiwan	1
Mauritius	2	Thailand	1
Mexico	1	United Kingdom	3
Nepal	1	United States	8
Pakistan	2	Uruguay	1

Mentors

This year we had 790 mentors dedicate their time and invaluable expertise to helping thousands of teenage students learn about open source by welcoming them into their communities. These mentors are the heart of GCI and the reason the contest continues to thrive. Mentors spend hundreds of hours answering questions, reviewing submitted tasks, and teaching students the basics and, in many cases, more advanced aspects of contributing to open source. GCI would not be possible without their enthusiasm and commitment.

We will post more statistics and fun stories that came from GCI 2018 here on the Google Open Source Blog over the next few months, so please stay tuned.

Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winners, Finalists, and all of the students who spent the last couple of months learning about, and contributing to, open source. We hope they will continue their journey in open source!

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

Wrapping up Google Code-in 2018

We are excited to announce the conclusion of the 9th annual Google Code-in (GCI), our global online contest introducing teenagers to the world of open source development. Over the years the contest has not only grown bigger, but also helped find and support talented young people around the world.

Here are some initial statistics about this year’s program:

Total number of students completing tasks: 3,123*
Total number of countries represented by students: 77
Percentage of girls among students: 17.9%

Below you can see the total number of tasks completed by students year over year:

*These numbers will increase as mentors finish reviewing the final work submitted by students this morning.

Mentors from each of the 27 open source organizations are now busy reviewing the last work submitted by participants. We look forward to sharing more statistics about the program, including countries and schools with the most student participants, in an upcoming blog post.

The mentors for each organization will spend the next couple of weeks selecting four Finalists (who will receive a hoodie too!) and their two Grand Prize Winners. Grand Prize Winners will be flown to Northern California to visit Google’s headquarters, enjoy a day of adventure in San Francisco, meet their mentors and hear talks from Google engineers.

Hearty congratulations to all the student participants for challenging themselves and making contributions to open source in the process!

Further, we’d like to thank the mentors and the organization administrators for GCI 2018. They are the heart of this program, volunteering countless hours creating tasks, reviewing student work, and helping bring students into the world of open source. Mentors teach young students about the many facets of open source development, from community standards and communicating across time zones to version control and testing. We couldn’t run this program without you! Thank you!

Stay tuned, we’ll be announcing the Grand Prize Winners and Finalists on January 7, 2019!

By Saranya Sampat, Google Open Source

Source: Google Open Source Blog

Google Code-in 2018 contest for teenagers begins today

Today marks the start of the 9th consecutive year of Google Code-in (GCI). This is the biggest and best contest ever and we hope you’ll join us for the fun!

What is Google Code-in?

Our global, online contest introducing students to open source development. The contest runs for 7 weeks until December 12, 2018.

Who can register?

Pre-university students ages 13-17 that have their parent or guardian’s permission to register for the contest.

How do students register and participate?

Students can register for the contest beginning today at g.co/gci. Once students have registered and the parental consent form has been submitted and approved by Program Administrators students can choose which contest “task” they want to work on first. Students choose the task they find interesting from a list of thousands of available tasks created by 27 participating open source organizations. Tasks take an average of 3-5 hours to complete. There are even beginner tasks that are a wonderful way for students to get started in the contest.

The task categories are:

Coding
Design
Documentation/Training
Outreach/Research
Quality Assurance

Why should students participate?

Students not only have the opportunity to work on a real open source software project, thus gaining invaluable skills and experience, but they also have the opportunity to be a part of the open source community. Mentors are readily available to help answer their questions while they work through the tasks.

Google Code-in is a contest so there are prizes! Complete one task and receive a digital certificate, three completed tasks and you’ll also get a fun Google t-shirt. Finalists earn the coveted hoodie. Grand Prize winners (2 from each organization) will receive a trip to Google headquarters in California!

Details

Over the last 8 years, more than 8,100 students from 107 countries have successfully completed over 40,000 tasks in GCI. Curious? Learn more about GCI by checking out the Contest Rules and FAQs. And please visit our contest site and read the Getting Started Guide.

Teachers, if you are interested in getting your students involved in Google Code-in we have resources available to help you get started.

By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source