In the Google Code-in 2015 contest, 980 students from 65 countries completed 4,686 tasks with 14 open source organisations.
Yathannsh Kulshrestha, a class 11 student from Jaipur is one of 24 students from across the world to win the Google Code-in contest 2015.
Google Code-in is an open source development contest for any student in the age bracket of 13 -17 year old. In the Google Code-in 2015 contest, 980 students from 65 countries completed 4,686 tasks with 14 open source organizations.
The participants Google Code-in had to perform coding related tasks such as refactoring code, outreach, research, quality assurance documentation, training, and user interface enhancement for one of the many companies associated with Google for this contest. Participants were also judged based on their analysis and recommendation for the problem.
A student of Jayshree Periwal International School, Yathannsh Kulshrestha partook in the 49-day long contest--started on December 7 and ended on January 25--to which the results were posted on February 8.
“I had completed 40 tasks in 49 days. The tasks included making Android applications, web applications, designing home pages for websites and finding functional errors. Juggling time between the long duration of the contest and preparations for class 11 exam was really a big challenge for me,” said Kulshrestha.
Yathannsh is also a national level basketball player and founder and president of a computer science club associated with Google CS (Computer Science) called Turing Fraternity.
Google has invited Kulshrestha to receive the prize in June at the Google headquarters in Mountain view, California, US.
Kulshrestha said, “I have always dreamt about it. It would be an inspirational trip to the Google headquarters,”
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