All good things must come to an end. Google Code-in 2019 was the last GCI. We want to thank Google and all the open-source projects that participated for all the hard work put into Google Code-in. This was sent to the gci-announce mailing list: Google Code-in wrapped up 10 amazing, productive, exhilarating years in January. There have been 14,700+ teenagers from 115+ countries and over 6,000 schools that have completed an impressive 76,200+ open source tasks with 63 open source organizations over the past decade. The Google Code-in 2019 was our final Google Code-in contest. We've been looking hard at our portfolio of programs and as open source evolves, our programs need to evolve too. We've decided to focus our efforts on Google Summer of Code and programs like Season of Docs that meet projects' sustainability needs going into the next 10 years of open source. The thousands of students that have participated in GCI over the last 10 years have brought fresh, new pers
Note Google has cancelled GCI. 😢 This post is now for historical purposes only. 🏛️ Let's start out with defining what Google Code-in, commonly known as GCI, is. Google Code-in is an open-source development contest for 13-17 year old pre-university (a.k.a. high school or secondary school) students. The goal is to encourage students to get involved in open-source software development. If you're not a programmer, don't worry! There are plenty of non-coding tasks, including writing documentation, designing logos, and many other things! Learning more about code (or other things) In Google Code-in, you often don't know exactly how to complete a task. You often have to get help. This is a good thing, because it encourages you to learn more about whatever you're doing. Even if you never finish a particular task, you can still learn from it. For example, in a logo design task that I never finished, I learned that good logos don't rely on text. Communication ski