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

[Aman Sharma]

I would like to participate too.

On Sun, Sep 2, 2018, 10:04 PM Sumit Srivastava <sumitsrisumit at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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