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The Google Highly Open Participation Contest, Google's
first contest to introduce pre-university students to the many contributions that make open
source software development possible, concluded on February 4, 2008. We had nearly 400
students worldwide to produce a variety of open source code, documentation, training materials
and user experience research for the ten participating organizations listed here. You can
check out actual work submitted by student contestants by clicking on the results link next to
a project's name on the right.
All ten free/open source projects have chosen a Grand Prize Winner from among all of their
student contestants. Each winner visited along with his family visited Google's Headquarters in Mountain
View, California, U.S.A. for an awards ceremony on July 11, 2008. You can learn more
about each Grand Prize Winner and why they were chosen by their organization on our Grand Prize Winners Page.
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