<div dir="ltr">Would love to participate!<div> </div><div>Cheers.</div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:14 PM James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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]<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a>> > 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]<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a>> > > 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] > <a href="mailto:gci-support@google.com" target="_blank">gci-support@google.com</a> > > Best, > > Stephanie and Mary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Code-in Mentors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email > to [7]<a href="mailto:gci-mentors%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>. > To post to this group, send email to [8]<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a>. > To view this discussion on the web visit [9]<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/</a> > gci-mentors/a0aa5a28-3853-4f4f-a547-7cb816932147%<a href="http://40googlegroups.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">40googlegroups.com</a>. > For more options, visit [10]<a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a>. > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > [11]<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> > [12] > > References: > > [1] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a> > [2] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a> > [3] <a href="http://g.co/gci" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://g.co/gci</a> > [4] <a href="http://g.co/gci" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://g.co/gci</a> > [5] <a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html</a> > [6] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-support@google.com" target="_blank">gci-support@google.com</a> > [7] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a> > [8] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a> > [9] <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/a0aa5a28-3853-4f4f-a547-7cb816932147%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/a0aa5a28-3853-4f4f-a547-7cb816932147%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer</a> > [10] <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a> > [11] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a> > [12] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> -- James Cameron <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>