Google Launches Contest to Encourage Kids to Code

[Mark Coates]

The Google Open Source Program is announcing a new outreach effort,
aimed at 13- to 18-year-old students around the world. Google Code-in
will operate in a similar fashion to Google's Summer of Code, giving
students the opportunity to work in open-source projects.

Google Code-in will match students to mentoring organizations and will
give them a chance to do real-world development on open source
projects. Tasks for participating students can include writing code,
creating documentation, training others, testing code, UI research and
design, and community outreach.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_launches_contest_to_encourage_kids_to_code.php

Just thinking that this might be an interesting angle we could somehow
get involved with. Cheers!

[Mark Coates]

Also, check out: http://csta.acm.org/runningonempty/roemap.html

NY is way behind. LA, however, ranks quite high... Maybe we should be
focusing on NY students!??

On Oct 7, 3:44 pm, Mark Coates <mark.coa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Google Open Source Program is announcing a new outreach effort,
> aimed at 13- to 18-year-old students around the world. Google Code-in
> will operate in a similar fashion to Google's Summer of Code, giving
> students the opportunity to work in open-source projects.
>
> Google Code-in will match students to mentoring organizations and will
> give them a chance to do real-world development on open source
> projects. Tasks for participating students can include writing code,
> creating documentation, training others, testing code, UI research and
> design, and community outreach.
>

> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_launches_contest_to_encou...