<div dir="ltr">Would love to participate!<div><br></div><div>Cheers.</div></div><br><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:<br></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.<br>
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 05:09:50PM -0400, Walter Bender wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Note that everything is pushed ahead by 1 month.<br>
> Any interest in participating this year?<br>
> <br>
> regards.<br>
> <br>
> -walter<br>
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> From: Google Code-in Mentors <[1]<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a>><br>
> Date: Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 3:34 PM<br>
> Subject: [GCI-mentors] GCI 2018 org applications open September 6-17 - contest<br>
> begins October 23rd for students<br>
> To: Google Code-in Mentors <[2]<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a>><br>
> <br>
> Hello GCI mentors,<br>
> <br>
> We are pleased to announce[3] Google Code-in (GCI) 2018, the 9th consecutive<br>
> year of our contest for pre-university students ages 13-17. Please be aware GCI<br>
> will start about a month earlier this year than in previous years - the contest<br>
> starts for students October 23rd!<br>
> <br>
> The GCI timeline, FAQs, Rules and flyers have been updated on the[4] contest<br>
> site.<br>
> <br>
> Organizations -- If you would like to apply for the 2018 program please start<br>
> thinking about the tasks you would like students to work on and reach out to<br>
> your community members to ask if they would like to be mentors for the program.<br>
> Organization applications open for GCI orgs next week on Thursday, September<br>
> 6th, and close less than 2 weeks later on Monday, September 17th. We will<br>
> announce organizations on Tuesday, September 18th giving orgs 5 weeks to create<br>
> their tasks before the contest begins on October 23rd.<br>
> <br>
> The major changes for GCI 2018 are:<br>
> <br>
>   • Orgs will evaluate the 20 students completing the most tasks with their org<br>
>     when deciding on finalists and winners<br>
> <br>
>   • Orgs will choose 6 finalists (instead of 5)<br>
> <br>
>   • We have renamed the User Interface category to Design<br>
> <br>
>   • Students will have to wait until Google reviews their Parental Consent form<br>
>     before they can claim their first task. This will slow things down but it<br>
>     is a requirement to be able to continue the program.<br>
> <br>
>   • No tasks asking for personal information about students will be allowed<br>
>     (this includes tasks asking for students to introduce themselves with info<br>
>     like what country they are from, or photos of the students, etc.).<br>
> <br>
> We are looking to continue the growth of this program and reach a record number<br>
> of teenagers this year! Read more on today’s[5] blog post.<br>
> <br>
> If you have any questions about Google Code-in please contact us at [6]<br>
> <a href="mailto:gci-support@google.com" target="_blank">gci-support@google.com</a><br>
> <br>
> Best,<br>
> <br>
> Stephanie and Mary<br>
> <br>
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> --<br>
> Walter Bender<br>
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> <br>
> References:<br>
> <br>
> [1] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a><br>
> [2] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a><br>
> [3] <a href="http://g.co/gci" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://g.co/gci</a><br>
> [4] <a href="http://g.co/gci" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://g.co/gci</a><br>
> [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><br>
> [6] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-support@google.com" target="_blank">gci-support@google.com</a><br>
> [7] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a><br>
> [8] mailto:<a href="mailto:gci-mentors@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">gci-mentors@googlegroups.com</a><br>
> [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><br>
> [10] <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/optout" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/optout</a><br>
> [11] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
> [12] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br>
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James Cameron<br>
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