City student emerges winner in Google contest

Kochi | Tuesday | 22nd May, 2018

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All the completed tasks were submitted by FOSSASIA to Google Code-in team who vetted it and announced him as a Google Code-in Grand Prize Winner. Third time luckyHe had participated in the contest twice in the past but turned lucky third time around. The 17-year-old computer science student from SNDP Higher Secondary School, Udayamperoor, is among the 12 grand prize winners from India in the Google Code-in 2017, a contest held globally to introduce pre-university students aged between 13 and 17 to open source software development. Many of these tasks required me to spend sleepless nights in preparations before actually coming up with the code,” said Abishek who claims to be the first ever grand prize winner from Kerala in the globally renowned contest. “Three days were given to complete tasks while seven days were given for more advanced ones..