Google Code-in 2015: diving into the numbers
February 25th, 2016 | Published in Google Open Source
Google Code-in (GCI), our contest introducing 13-17 year olds to open source software development, wrapped up a few weeks ago with our largest contest to date: 980 students from 65 countries completed a record-breaking 4,776 tasks! Working with 14 open source organizations, students wrote code, created and edited documentation, designed UI elements and logos, conducted research, developed screencasts and videos teaching others about open source software, and helped find (and fix!) hundreds of bugs.
General statistics
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57% of students completed three or more tasks (earning themselves a sweet Google Code-in 2015 t-shirt)
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21% of students were female, up from 18% in 2014
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This was the first Google Code-in for 810 students (83%)
Student age
Participating schools
Students from 550 schools competed in this year’s contest. Below are the top five participating schools.
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School Name
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Number of student participants
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Country
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Website
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Dunman High School
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147
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Singapore
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http://www.dhs.sg
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GSS PU College
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44
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India
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http://gssbgm.edu.in
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Colegiul National Aurel Vlaicu
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31
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Romania
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http://www.colegiulavlaicu.ro
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Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School
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28
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India
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http://www.shcsjagadhri.org
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Freehold High School
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10
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United States
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http://frhsd.com/freehold
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Countries
The charts below display the top ten countries with the most students completing at least 1 task.
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Country
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Number of student participants
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India
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246
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United States
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224
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Singapore
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164
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Romania
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65
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Canada
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24
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Taiwan
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22
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Poland
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19
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United Kingdom
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18
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Australia
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17
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Germany
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13
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We are pleased to have 11 new countries participating in GCI this year: Albania, Armenia, Cameroon, Costa Rica (home to one of this year’s grand prize winners!), Cyprus, Georgia, Guatemala, Laos, Luxembourg, Qatar and Uganda.
In June we will welcome all 28 grand prize winners (along with a mentor from each participating organization) for a fun-filled trip to the Bay Area. The trip will include meeting with Google engineers to hear about new and exciting projects, a tour of the Google campus and a day of sightseeing around San Francisco.
Stay tuned to our blog for more stats on Google Code-in, including wrap up posts from the mentor organizations. We are thrilled that Google Code-in was so popular this year. We hope to grow and expand this contest in the future to introduce even more passionate teens to the world of open source software development.
By Stephanie Taylor, Google Code-in Program Manager