Other winners are Mikhail Ivchenko, Russian Federation, KDE; Peter Amidon, United States, BRL-CAD; Puck Meerburg, Netherlands, Haiku; Samuel Kim, United States, Copyleft Games Group; Sushain Cherivirala, United States, Apertium; Theo Patt, United States, Wikimedia; and Vijay Nandwani, India, Drupal. “Congratulations to all of the students who participated in this year’s contest!” wrote Taylor. “You should all be very proud of yourselves.” The grand prize winners were named by the 10 open- source organizations that worked with the students, wrote Taylor. Two winning students were chosen by each of the groups based on the students’ comprehensive body of work, she wrote. The projects that the students fulfilled were varied. Nandwanicreated a screencast of how he coded a Hello world module for Drupal 8, which helped him gain recognition in the whole Drupal community, he wrote. Another winner, Patt, wrote that he helped to revamp the other languages feature on the mobile version of Wikipedia, adding features and reducing page loading times. Lou wrote that he modified the DriveSetup on Haiku, which allows users to zoom in the program window. For winning the competition, the 20 grand prize winners will receive a trip to Google’s Mountain View, Calif., headquarters along with a parent or legal guardian in mid-April for a four-night visit, wrote Taylor.
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