<div dir="ltr">Do we need to apply for this ?<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephanie Taylor</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sttaylor@google.com">sttaylor@google.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:09 AM<br>Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Google Code-in 2013 Contest starts this November<br>To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List <<a href="mailto:google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com">google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello GSoC Mentors,</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As you probably read by now we announced [0] that we will be running the Google Code-in [1] contest for 13-17 pre-university students again this November - January 2014. The contest will begin for students on Monday, November 18th, 2013 [2]. </span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizations will be able to apply to be one of the 10 mentoring organizations starting tomorrow, Wednesday, October 9th and the deadline to send in your org application will be Monday, October 28th (a week after the Mentor Summit). I will send another email to this list tomorrow morning with a link to the organization application. For some general tips about mentoring for GCI you can check out the GCI Mentor info [3].</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will have a session on Google Code-in during the first day of the Mentor Summit for people to learn more about the program and for previous mentors and org admins to give us their feedback and thoughts on the program.</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">Important Upcoming Dates:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">** October 9, 2013 19:00 UTC - October 28, 2013 at 19:00 UTC - Orgs can go to <a href="http://google-melange.com" target="_blank">google-melange.com</a> and the org admin can register and fill out the application to be a mentoring organization for Google Code-in 2013.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">November 1, 2013 - The 10 Mentoring organizations are announced for Google Code-in 2013 and the orgs can start entering their tasks into the Google system (the tasks will not be viewable to students until the contest opens on Nov 18).</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">November 18, 2013 17:00 UTC - Google Code-in 2013 contest opens for students.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">January 6, 2014 17:00 UTC - Google Code-in 2013 student work ends.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">January 8, 2014 17:00 UTC - Deadline for Mentors to evaluate student work</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial">January 13, 2014 - Mentoring Organization deadline for submitting their 2 Grand Prize Winners</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We hope you will help us spread the word about the Google Code-in contest so we can introduce more young developers to the wonderful world of open source. If you will be going to any talks or conferences aimed at pre-university students in the next 5-6 weeks we would be happy to send you some cool GCI 2013 stickers. Please contact me directly at </span><a href="mailto:sttaylor@google.com" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">sttaylor@google.com</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> if you would like stickers or if you have any questions about applying to be a mentoring organization.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[0] </span><a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-code-in-2013-and-google-summer.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-code-in-2013-and-google-summer.html</span></a><a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/09/google-code-in-contest-for-high-school.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[1] </span><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013</span></a><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,102,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[2] </span><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gci/events/google/gci2013" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.google-melange.com/gci/events/google/gci2013</span></a><a href="http://www.google-melange.com/gci/events/google/gci2012" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,102,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">[3] <a href="https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInfo2013" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInfo2013</a></span><a href="http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIMentorInformation2012" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(51,102,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></a></p>
<div><span><br></span></div>Thanks,</span><div><span>Stephanie<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial"></span></font></span></span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>
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