These students spent 7 weeks working online with 27 open source organizations. They wrote code, wrote and edited documentation, designed UI elements and logos, and conducted research. Additionally, they developed videos to teach others about open source software, as well as found (and fixed!) hundreds of bugs.
Overview
- 2,164 students completed three or more tasks (earning a Google Code-in 2018 t-shirt)
- 17% of students were girls
- 79% of students were first time participants in GCI
- We saw very large increases in the number of students from Austria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Taiwan
Student Age
Participating Schools
Students from 1,673 schools competed in this year’s contest. Many students learn about GCI from their friends or teachers and continue to spread the word to their classmates. This year the 5 schools with the most students completing tasks in the contest were:| School Name | Number of Student Participants | Country |
| Dunman High School | 110 | Singapore |
| Indus E.M High School | 73 | India |
| Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School | 69 | India |
| Amity International School Sec-46 Gurgaon | 36 | India |
| Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan Vidyashram Pratap Nagar | 27 | India |
Countries
This year we welcome winners and finalists from 77 countries, including 9 "first time" countries; Georgia, Macedonia, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Israel, Luxembourg, Nepal and Pakistan.The chart below displays the 10 countries with the most students completing at least 1 task.
What's Next
In June we will welcome all 54 grand prize winners to the San Francisco Bay Area for a fun-filled trip. The trip includes the opportunity for students to meet with one of the mentors they worked with during the contest. Students will also take part in an awards ceremony, meet with Google engineers to hear about new and exciting projects, tours of the Google campuses and a fun day exploring San Francisco.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 exciting world of open source software.
Thank you again to the people who make this program possible: the 789 mentors from 57 countries that guided students through the program and welcomed them into their open source communities.
By Saranya Sampat, Google Open Source
