… and Go! The Google Code-in 2012 contest
has officially started! If you are a 13-17 year old pre-university (high school)
student interested in computer science who would like to learn more about open source software
development while earning cool prizes, sign up on our program site today. Students have
the opportunity to select tasks from 5 categories (coding, documentation/training, quality
assurance, research/outreach and user interface) that are designed by 10
open source organizations that will provide mentors for the students.
Students earn certificates, t-shirts and Grand Prize Winners will win a trip for
themselves and a parent or legal guardian to Google’s Mountain View California campus in 2013.
Each of the 10 open source organizations will choose 2 of the 5 students that complete the
most tasks with their organization as their Grand Prize Winners for a total of 20 Grand Prize
Winners for Google Code-in 2012- that’s twice as many Grand Prize Winners as last year!
Last year, 542 students from 56 countries competed in the contest: this year you could be one
of the students from around the world learning new skills and making new friends by
experiencing the awesome world of open source development.
If you’d like to sign up, please review the Contest
Rules and Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ) on our program site.
You can join our discussion
list to ask any other questions. For details on important dates for the contest, see
the calendar. If you
meet the eligibility requirements you can create your account on the program site and
start claiming tasks today!
Join us today, Nov 26th, as members of Google’s Open Source Programs Office host a Live Google
Code-in Hangout on Air on the Google Education page at 2pm PST to discuss details of
the contest and to answer questions from viewers. If you can’t make the live Hangout on Air it
will be recorded and posted on our Google Open
Source Student Programs YouTube Channel within a couple of days.
The contest ends on January 14, 2013 so start claiming tasks today. Good luck and
have fun!
