The Basics
What is Google Code-in?Our global, online contest introducing students to open source development. The contest runs for seven weeks until January 23, 2020.
Who can register?
Pre-university students ages 13-17 that have their parent or guardian’s permission to register for the contest.
How do students register and participate?
Students can register for the contest beginning today at g.co/gci. Once students have registered, and the parental consent form has been submitted and approved by Program Administrators, students can choose which “task” they want to work on first. Students choose the task they find interesting from a list of thousands of available tasks created by 29 participating open source organizations. Tasks take an average of 3-5 hours to complete. There are even beginner tasks that are a wonderful way for students to get started in the contest.
The task categories are:
- Coding
- Design
- Documentation/Training
- Outreach/Research
- Quality Assurance
Students not only have the opportunity to work on a real open source software project, thus gaining invaluable skills and experience, but they also have the opportunity to be a part of the open source community. Mentors are readily available to help answer their questions while they work through the tasks.
Google Code-in is a contest so there are prizes*! Complete one task and receive a digital certificate, three completed tasks and you’ll also get a fun Google t-shirt. Finalists earn a jacket, runners-up earn backpacks, and grand prize winners (two from each organization) will receive a trip to Google headquarters in California in 2020!
Details
Over the past nine years, more than 11,000 students from 108 countries have successfully completed over 55,000 tasks in GCI. Curious? Learn more about GCI by checking out the Contest Rules, short videos, and FAQs. Please visit our contest site and read the Getting Started Guide.
Teachers, if you are interested in getting your students involved in Google Code-in we have resources available to help you get started.
By Stephanie Taylor, Google Open Source
* There are a handful of countries we are unable to ship physical goods to, as listed in the FAQs.
