Today we are excited to announce the Grand Prize Winners and Finalists with each organization. The 50 Grand Prize Winners completed an impressive 1,739 tasks between them while also helping other students.
Each of the Grand Prize Winners will be awarded a four day trip to Google’s campus in northern California to meet with Google engineers, meet with one of the mentors they worked with during the contest, and enjoy some fun in the California sun with the other winners. We look forward to meeting these winners in a few months!
Grand Prize Winners
The Grand Prize Winners hail from 12 countries, listed by first name alphabetically below:| Name | Organization | Country |
| Aadi Bajpai | CCExtractor | India |
| Aarnav Bos | OpenWISP | India |
| Abishek V Ashok | FOSSASIA | India |
| Aditya Giri | OpenWISP | India |
| Akshit Dewan | XWiki | United States |
| Albert Wolszon | Wikimedia | Poland |
| Andrew Dassonville | coala | United States |
| Arav Singhal | MovingBlocks | India |
| Arun Pattni | XWiki | United Kingdom |
| Aryaman Agrawal | Systers Community | India |
| Bartłomiej Rasztabiga | OpenMRS | Poland |
| Carol Chen | Sugar Labs | Canada |
| Chandra | Catrobat | Indonesia |
| Chirag Gupta | The Mifos Initiative | India |
| Cynthia Lin | Zulip | United States |
| Erika Tan | Systers Community | United States |
| Eshan Singh | MetaBrainz | India |
| Euan Ong | Sugar Labs | United Kingdom |
| Fawwaz Yusran | OpenMRS | Indonesia |
| Grzegorz Stark | Apertium | Poland |
| Hiếu Lê | Haiku | Vietnam |
| Jake Du | LibreHealth | United States |
| Jatin Luthra | JBoss Community | India |
| Jeff Sieu | BRL-CAD | Singapore |
| Jerry Huang | OSGeo | United States |
| Jonathan Pan | Apertium | United States |
| Jude Birch | Catrobat | United Kingdom |
| Konrad Krawiec | Ubuntu | Poland |
| Mahdi Dolatabadi | BRL-CAD | Canada |
| Marcin Mikołajczak | Ubuntu | Poland |
| Marco Burstein | Zulip | United States |
| Mateusz Grzonka | LibreHealth | Poland |
| Matthew Katz | The Mifos Initiative | Canada |
| Mehant Kammakomati | SCoRe | India |
| Nalin Bhardwaj | coala | India |
| Naveen Rajan | FOSSASIA | Sri Lanka |
| Nikita Volobuiev | Wikimedia | Ukraine |
| Omshi Samal | Liquid Galaxy Project | India |
| Owen Pan | Haiku | United States |
| Padam Chopra | SCoRe | India |
| Palash Taneja | CloudCV | India |
| Pavan Agrawal | CloudCV | United States |
| Sheik Meeran Ashmith Kifah | Drupal | Mauritius |
| Shiyuan Yu | CCExtractor | China |
| Sunveer Singh | OSGeo | India |
| Tanvish Jha | Drupal | India |
| Tarun Ravi | Liquid Galaxy Project | United States |
| Thomas O'Keeffe | MovingBlocks | United States |
| Vriyas Hartama Adesaputra | MetaBrainz | Indonesia |
| Zhao Wei Liew | JBoss Community | Singapore |
Finalists
And a big congratulations to our 75 Finalists from 20 countries who will receive a special hoodie to commemorate their achievements in the contest. They are listed alphabetically by organization below:| Name | Organization | Name | Organization | |
| Alexander Mamaev | Apertium | Shamroy Pellew | MetaBrainz | |
| Robin Richtsfeld | Apertium | Aleksander Wójtowicz | MovingBlocks | |
| Ryan Chi | Apertium | Jindřich Dítě | MovingBlocks | |
| Caleb Parks | BRL-CAD | Nicholas Bates | MovingBlocks | |
| Lucas Prieels | BRL-CAD | Jyothsna Ashok | OpenMRS | |
| Mitesh Gulecha | BRL-CAD | Matthew Whitaker | OpenMRS | |
| Aditya Rathore | Catrobat | Tomasz Domagała | OpenMRS | |
| Andreas Lukita | Catrobat | Alan Zhu | OpenWISP | |
| Martina Hanusova | Catrobat | Hizkia Felix Winata | OpenWISP | |
| John Chew | CCExtractor | Vidya Haikal | OpenWISP | |
| Matej Plavevski | CCExtractor | Ethan Zhao | OSGeo | |
| William | CCExtractor | Neev Mistry | OSGeo | |
| Adam Štafa | CloudCV | Shailesh Kadam | OSGeo | |
| Adarsh Kumar | CloudCV | Emily Ong Hui Qi | Sugar Labs | |
| Naman Sood | CloudCV | Koh Pi Rong | Sugar Labs | |
| Anu Dookna | coala | Sanatan Chaudhary | Sugar Labs | |
| Marcos Gómez Bracamonte | coala | Adhyan Dhull | SCoRe | |
| Wonsang Chung | coala | Gaurav Pandey | SCoRe | |
| Kartik Goel | Drupal | Moses Paul | SCoRe | |
| Sagar Khatri | Drupal | Fidella Widjojo | Systers Community | |
| Tanish Kapur | Drupal | Valentin Sergeev | Systers Community | |
| Aditya Dutt | FOSSASIA | Yuyuan Luo | Systers Community | |
| Saarthak Chaturvedi | FOSSASIA | Janice Kim | The Mifos Initiative | |
| Yash Kumar Verma | FOSSASIA | Muhammad Rafly Andrianza | The Mifos Initiative | |
| Bach Nguyen | Haiku | Shivam Kumar Singh | The Mifos Initiative | |
| Đắc Tùng Dương | Haiku | Daniel Lim | Ubuntu | |
| Xiang Fan | Haiku | Qazi Omair Ahmed | Ubuntu | |
| Anhai Wang | JBoss Community | Simran | Ubuntu | |
| Divyansh Kulshreshtha | JBoss Community | David Siedtmann | Wikimedia | |
| Sachin Rammoorthy | JBoss Community | Rafid Aslam | Wikimedia | |
| Adrien Zier | LibreHealth | Yifei He | Wikimedia | |
| Miguel Dinis | LibreHealth | Akash Chandrasekaran | XWiki | |
| Vishwas Adiga | LibreHealth | Siddh Raman Pant | XWiki | |
| Shruti Singh | Liquid Galaxy Project | Srijan Jha | XWiki | |
| Kshitijaa Jaglan | Liquid Galaxy Project | Freddie Miller | Zulip | |
| Surya Tanwar | Liquid Galaxy Project | Priyank Patel | Zulip | |
| Enjeck Mbeh Cleopatra | MetaBrainz | Steven Hans | Zulip | |
| Kartik Ohri | MetaBrainz |
GCI is a contest that the Google Open Source team is honored to run every year. We saw immense growth this year, the seventh year of the contest, both in the number of students participating and the number of countries represented by these students.
Our 730+ mentors, the heart and soul of GCI, are the reason the contest thrives. Mentors volunteer their time to help these bright students become open source contributors. Mentors spend hundreds of hours during their holiday breaks answering questions, reviewing submitted tasks, and welcoming the students to their communities. GCI would not be possible without their patience and tireless efforts.
We will post more statistics and fun stories that came from GCI 2017 here on the Google Open Source Blog over the next few months, so please stay tuned!
Congratulations to our Grand Prize Winners, Finalists, and all of the students who spent the last couple of months learning about and contributing to open source.
By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source
