Mr. Ilo
Calistus , a students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has been selected
to represent Nigeria at the 11th edition of the Google Summer of Code programme.
The final
year student of the department of Computer Science and UNN Google Student
Ambassador will work with System, an Anita Borg Institute based in United
States and contribute to the 55 million lines of code which has been written so
far for the development of an Android App for Peace Corp volunteers.
This year
about 1,051 students will be participating; representing a total of 73
countries. Each of the students will be required to work for a period of 12
weeks with the organization he or she will be assigned to.
The Google
Summer of Code which began in 2005 is a program that offers student developers
stipends to write code for various open source projects for top technology
companies like Google, Mozilla, Encyclopedia of Life, etc.
1 comment:
Not actually what the title says. Congratulations to the him. Represent Nigeria well and make us proud.
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