Google Code-in 2012 Grand Prize Winners... Drumroll Please!
By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open
Source Programs Office
Cross-posted with the Google
Open Source Blog
We are thrilled to announce the 20 grand prize winners of
Google Code-in 2012, a
contest designed to introduce teenagers to the world of open source software development.
Congratulations to all 334 students from 36 countries who participated in the contest,
completing 1,925 tasks.
Each of the
10
open source mentoring organizations that worked with the students during the contest
chose 2 students to be their organization’s grand prize winners based on the students’
comprehensive body of work during the seven week contest period.
Students are listed alphabetically (by first name) with their country and the organization
that they worked with during Google Code-in 2012.
Agustín Zubiaga, Uruguay - Sugar Labs
Akshay S Kashyap, India - BRL-CAD
Aleksandar Ivanov, Bulgaria - RTEMS
Aneesh Dogra, India - Sugar Labs
Aviral Dasgupta, India - Sahana Software Foundation
Cezar El-Nazli, Romania - BRL-CAD
Conor Flynn, Ireland - Apertium
Drew Gottlieb, United States - Copyleft Games Group
Illya Kovalevskyy, Ukraine - KDE
Liezl Puzon, United States - Sahana Software Foundation
Mathew Kallada, Canada - RTEMS
Matthew Bauer, United States - The NetBSD Project
Mingzhe Wang, China - The NetBSD Project
Mohammed Nafees, India - KDE
Nicolás Satragno, Argentina - The Fedora Project
Przemysław Buczkowski, Poland - Haiku
Qasim Iqbal, Canada - Apertium
Samuel Kim, United States - Copyleft Games Group
Vladimir Angelov, Bulgaria - Haiku
Ze Yue Wu, Australia - The Fedora Project
Congratulations Google Code-in 2012 Grand Prize Winners!
These 20 pre-university students completed an impressive 576 tasks ranging from annotating
face recognition for disaster response efforts to creating videos and screencasts to teach
others about the organization’s software to writing scripts to develop MySQL tables. In late
April, the grand prize winners will be flown to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View,
California, USA along with a parent or legal guardian for a four night visit. During
the trip the students will have the opportunity to participate in an awards ceremony, meet
with Google engineers, have a full day of fun exploring San Francisco, and make new friends
also interested in open source development.
A couple of quotes from the mentors that worked with this year’s Google Code-in
students:
'They're surprisingly motivated, excited to contribute, genuinely interested, and productive
to boot. Initial estimates indicate we may get years worth of work done and one student has
already earned commit status, two others are getting close.' -- Sean Morrison,
BRL-CAD Organization Administrator and Mentor, two weeks after the start of the
contest
‘One of my favorite quotes, one you probably have seen before, from a student: "this is my
first patch to an open source project"’ -- Walter Bender, Sugar Labs Organization
Administrator and Mentor
And that is what this contest is all about, introducing students to the many ways that they
can contribute to open source software development. An enormous thank you to all of the
students, IT teachers, parents, mentors and organization administrators who made the Google
Code-in 2012 a success!
Written by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs
Posted by Ashleigh Rentz, Editor
Emerita
