<div dir="ltr">Google just announced the winners of GCI. From Sugar Labs, our winners are:<div><br></div><div><div>Cristian García<span style="white-space:pre"> and </span>Tymon Radzik</div><div><br></div><div>Our other finalists are:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Emily Ong Hui Qi<span style="white-space:pre">, </span>Euan Ong<span style="white-space:pre">, and </span>Pablo Salomón Ortega Quintana.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Other students deserving mention include:</div><div><br></div><div><div>Hrishi Patel, Himanshu Sekhar Nayak, Kachachan Chotitamnavee, Hitesh Agarwal, Matías Martínez, and Ayush Kumar.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Also a tip of the hat to the other 285 students who made an effort to participate in the Sugar Labs track of GCI.</div><div><br></div><div>A few highlights:</div><div><br></div><div>Dozens of new activities, include a great "Mastermind-like" game and very nice planetary simulator. Hundreds of bugs fixed, including one Turtle Blocks bug that results in an order-of-magnitude speed up of the turtle. Music Blocks has a cute new mouse avatar and a much-needed refresh of the guide.</div><div><br></div><div>I would be remiss if I did not also thank the mentors, all 35 of them, without whom we could not have hosted all of these new contributors to Sugar Labs. We had 24/7 coverage on our IRC channel (thanks in large part to Ignacio, Quozl', and pikarusa). And a dedicated team from Caacupe, always there to lend a hand.</div><div><br></div><div>Next up: Google Summer of Code. Please make suggestions for projects in the wiki:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GSoC/2017">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/GSoC/2017</a></div><div><br></div><div>regards.</div><div><br></div><div>-walter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font><font>Walter Bender</font></font><br><font><font>Sugar Labs</font></font></div><div><font><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font>http://www.sugarlabs.org</font></a></font><br><a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank"><font></font></a><br></div></div></div>
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