Googlers Don their Hoodies in Support of AIME

Today Googlers are wearing their AIME hoodies to support National Hoodie Day - an initiative of the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience. This day is supporting AIME to help more Indigenous kids to finish school at the same rate as every Australian child.

Over a special lunch which was hosted by guest chef Matt Kemp, Googlers gathered together to learn more about indigenous history and culture and to send messages of support to our AIME friends and students. Googlers were excited to hear that of the 1, 250 indigenous high school students who went through the AIME programme last year 100% completed Year 12 with a further 38% heading to university! Conversations were started which focussed on the way forward and how we can help fuel the belief that a successful Australia will have as a part of it a strong indigenous voice and participation.



You can see more about National Hoodie Day here:





Posted by Leticia Lentini, Non-Profits Lead.

Introducing students to open source software development

Google Summer of Code™, our flagship program to introduce college and university students to open source software development, is now in full swing. Over the past four years, we've paired nearly 2,500 student "graduates" with more than 2,500 mentors from industry to academia, with some spectacular results: millions of lines of source code produced and over $15M USD (almost $22M AUD) in funding provided to open source development. We're particularly excited by the social ties our students participants form through the course of the program - we've connected people in more than 98 countries, and hope to bring people from even more places into the Google Summer of Code community this year.

We're accepting student applications now through April 3rd. For more details, including how to apply, please see the Google Open Source Blog.



Posted by Leslie Hawthorn, Program Manager Open Source Team