S Sai Vineet and Kinshuk Kashyap of JH Tarapore School have been declared among 28 grand winners of the Google Code-In contest organised by Google. They have been invited to the global headquarters of Google at California, USA to receive their honours.
A seven-week long and grueling Google Code-In competition for pre-university students involving multiple complicated real time tasks was organised by Google Inc, the famous American multinational technology company.
Class XI students, Vineet and Kinshuk JH Tarapore School will visit the Google headquarters in June this year. Both have worked with Apertium and Copyleft gaming, both US based organisations. While Vineet has worked on the company's website that included language conversions and coding Kingshuk has worked on the webchat protocol and game engine technicalities.
" I feel like I am on the top of the world. I have been trying for the past three years and I am happy to be amongst top 28 of the prestigious contest," said Vineet, son of S. Sanjeeva Rao, a bank manager.
Pre-university students ages 13 to 17 were invited to take part in Google Code-in, the contest aims to introducing young minds to the world of open source. With a wide variety of bite-sized tasks, it’s easy for beginners to jump in and get started no matter what skills you have.
This year 14 open source organizations created thousands of tasks for students to work during the competition that ran between December 7, 2015 and January 25, 2016.