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

[IQRA MUHAMMAD]

If sugar labs decides to participate in GCI 2018, then I am also interested in being a mentor for students this year.

Regards,
Iqra 

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> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2018 22:07:35 +0530
> From: Aman Sharma <amanharitsh123 at gmail.com>
> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Cc: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org
>   applications open September 6-17 - contest begins October 23rd for
>   students
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> I would like to participate too.
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> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018, 10:04 PM Sumit Srivastava <sumitsrisumit at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 
>>> Note that everything is pushed ahead by 1 month.
>>> Any interest in participating this year?
>>> 
>>> regards.
>>> 
>>> -walter
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>>> 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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> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 06:21:27 +1000
> From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org
>   applications open September 6-17 - contest begins October 23rd for
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> It is good to see so many offers to help as mentor.
> 
> There's plenty that needs doing now, in Sugar, Sugarizer, and Music
> Blocks; no lack of opportunities.
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> I'd like to see mentoring given first to people who have been regular
> coding contributors to Sugar or Sugarizer.
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> So if you'd like to mentor then get involved now.
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> -- 
> James Cameron
> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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> Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 01:54:07 +0530
> From: Rishabh Thaney <rishabhthaney at gmail.com>
> To: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> Cc: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Fwd: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org
>   applications open September 6-17 - contest begins October 23rd for
>   students
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> +1
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>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 at 1:51 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It is good to see so many offers to help as mentor.
>> 
>> There's plenty that needs doing now, in Sugar, Sugarizer, and Music
>> Blocks; no lack of opportunities.
>> 
>> I'd like to see mentoring given first to people who have been regular
>> coding contributors to Sugar or Sugarizer.
>> 
>> So if you'd like to mentor then get involved now.
>> 
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>> _______________________________________________
>> Sugar-devel mailing list
>> Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
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