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

[Jaskirat Singh]

Its fun. We should participate
On 30-Aug-2018 12:26 PM, "Samson Goddy" <samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> 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
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>> >
>> > 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
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