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]gci-ment...@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 <[2]gci-ment...@googlegroups.com> > > 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] > gci-supp...@google.com > > 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]gci-mentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to [8]gci-ment...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit [9]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ > gci-mentors/a0aa5a28-3853-4f4f-a547-7cb816932147%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit [10]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > [11]http://www.sugarlabs.org > [12] > > References: > > [1] mailto:gci-ment...@googlegroups.com > [2] mailto:gci-ment...@googlegroups.com > [3] http://g.co/gci > [4] http://g.co/gci > [5] > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/08/announcing-google-code-in-2018.html > [6] mailto:gci-supp...@google.com > [7] mailto:gci-mentors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > [8] mailto:gci-ment...@googlegroups.com > [9] > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gci-mentors/a0aa5a28-3853-4f4f-a547-7cb816932147%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > [10] https://groups.google.com/d/optout > [11] http://www.sugarlabs.org/ > [12] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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