[Sugar-devel] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org applications open September 6-17 - contest begins October 23rd for students

[Samson Goddy]

It gonna be interesting

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:46 AM Devin Ulibarri <devin at ulibarri.website>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Certainly.
>
> Devin
>
> On Thu, 2018-08-30 at 00:02 +0100, Glide wrote:
>
> Would love to participate!
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:14 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> I'm looking forward to it.
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:09:50PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> >
> > Note that everything is pushed ahead by 1 month.
> > Any interest in participating this year?
> >
> > regards.
> >
> > -walter
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Google Code-in Mentors <[1]gci-mentors at googlegroups.com>
> > Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:34 PM
> > Subject: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org applications open September 6-17 -
> contest
> > begins October 23rd for students
> > To: Google Code-in Mentors <[2]gci-mentors at googlegroups.com>
> >
> > Hello GCI mentors,
> >
> > We are pleased to announce[3] Google Code-in (GCI) 2018, the 9th
> consecutive
> > year of our contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Please be
> aware GCI
> > will start about a month earlier this year than in previous years - the
> contest
> > starts for students October 23rd!
> >
> > The GCI timeline, FAQs, Rules and flyers have been updated on the[4]
> contest
> > site.
> >
> > Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2018 program please
> start
> > thinking about the tasks you would like students to work on and reach
> out to
> > your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for the
> program.
> > Organization applications open for GCI orgs next week on Thursday,
> September
> > 6th, and close less than 2 weeks later on Monday, September 17th. We will
> > announce organizations on Tuesday, September 18th giving orgs 5 weeks to
> create
> > their tasks before the contest begins on October 23rd.
> >
> > The major changes for GCI 2018 are:
> >
> >   • Orgs will evaluate the 20 students completing the most tasks with
> their org
> >     when deciding on finalists and winners
> >
> >   • Orgs will choose 6 finalists (instead of 5)
> >
> >   • We have renamed the User Interface category to Design
> >
> >   • Students will have to wait until Google reviews their Parental
> Consent form
> >     before they can claim their first task. This will slow things down
> but it
> >     is a requirement to be able to continue the program.
> >
> >   • No tasks asking for personal information about students will be
> allowed
> >     (this includes tasks asking for students to introduce themselves
> with info
> >     like what country they are from, or photos of the students, etc.).
> >
> > We are looking to continue the growth of this program and reach a record
> number
> > of teenagers this year! Read more on today’s[5] blog post.
> >
> > If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at [6]
> > gci-support at google.com
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Stephanie and Mary
> >
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> > --
> > Walter Bender
> > Sugar Labs
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> > [12]
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:gci-mentors at googlegroups.com
> > [2] mailto:gci-mentors at googlegroups.com
> > [3] http://g.co/gci
> > [4] http://g.co/gci
> > [5]
> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html
> > [6] mailto:gci-support at google.com
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