General statistics
- 56.4% of students completed three or more tasks (earning themselves a fun Google Code-in 2016 t-shirt)
- 21% of students were female
- 30% of the participants from the USA were female
- This was the first Google Code-in for 1,143 students (85.3%)
Student age
Participating schools
Students from 550 schools competed in this year’s contest. While Google Code-in is a program for individuals, every year some schools emerge as hot spots of participation. This year, these five schools had the most students taking part:| School Name | Country | Number of Participants |
| Dunman High School | Singapore | 185 |
| Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School | India | 29 |
| Jayshree Periwal International School | India | 26 |
| Colegiul National Aurel Vlaicu | Romania | 23 |
| Ly Tu Trong Specialized High Schools | Vietnam | 14 |
Countries
We are pleased to have a new country participating in GCI this year: Mauritius! The chart below displays the ten countries with the most students completing at least 1 task.
In June we will welcome all 34 grand prize winners (along with a mentor from each participating organization) for a fun-filled trip to the Bay Area. The trip will include meeting with Google engineers to hear about new and exciting projects, tours of the Google campuses and a fun day exploring San Francisco.
Keep an eye on the Google Open Source Blog in coming weeks for more stats on Google Code-in 2016, plus posts from the mentoring organizations describing some of their experiences with the contests and the work done by “their” students.
We are thrilled that Google Code-in was so popular this year. We hope to continue to grow and expand this contest in the future to introduce even more teenagers to the world of open source software development.
By Stephanie Taylor, Google Code-in Program Manager
