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

[Sumit Srivastava]

Incase Sugar Labs decides to participate, I'd love to be a mentor for the
students this year.

Regards
Sumit Srivastava
Coder and musician

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, 2:40 am Walter Bender, <walter.bender at gmail.com> 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 <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 <gci-mentors at googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Hello GCI mentors,
>
> We are pleased to announce Google Code-in (GCI) 2018 <http://g.co/gci>,
> 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 contest
> site <http://g.co/gci>.
>
> 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 blog post
> <https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html>
> .
>
> If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at
> gci-support at google.com
>
> Best,
>
> Stephanie and Mary
>
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