GNOME Foundation launches Coding Education Challenge

The GNOME Foundation, with support from Endless, has announcedthe Coding Education Challenge, a competition aimed to attract projectsthat offer educators and students new and innovative ideas to teach codingwith free and open source software. "Anyone is encouraged to submit a proposal. Individuals and teams will be judged through three tiers of competition. Twenty winners will be selected from an open call for ideas and will each receive $6,500 in prize money. Those winners will progress to a proof of concept round and build a working prototype. Five winners from that round will be awarded $25,000 and progress to the final round where they will turn the prototype into an end product. The final winner will receive a prize of $100,000 and the second placed product a prize of $25,000."