Google Code-in 2013 - drumroll please!

The Google Code-in 2013 contest concluded with the announcement of 20 grand prize winners chosen from 337 teenage participants across 46 countries who completed over 2,113 tasks for various open source organizations. The winners were selected based on their outstanding contributions, which included writing code, fixing bugs, and creating documentation, among other tasks. These students, representing countries like the United States, India, Australia, and Uruguay, worked with organizations such as Sahana Software Foundation, KDE, and Wikimedia. Highlights from the students' experiences included creating a screencast for Drupal, enhancing Wikipedia's mobile feature, and updating the MediaWiki UploadWizard extension. As a reward, the winners will visit Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, for a four-night trip in April, where they will meet Google engineers, participate in an awards ceremony, and engage with fellow tech enthusiasts. This year, a unique addition to the prize includes the opportunity for students to meet their mentors from the contest, fostering deeper connections within the open source community.