Google Summer of Code 2020 for Students (Get Paid to Write Code)

Published: 25 Mar 2020 1,299 views

The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (“Ministry of Education”) awards a government scholarship to a national of a partnering country to partially cover the costs associated with studies at a public university located in the Slovak Republic.

Through Google Summer of Code, accepted student applicants are paired with a mentor or mentors from the participating projects, thus gaining exposure to real-world software development scenarios and the opportunity for employment in areas related to their academic pursuits. In turn, the participating projects are able to more easily identify and bring in new developers. Best of all, more source code is created and released for the use and benefit of all.

Spend your summer break writing code and learning about open source development while earning a stipend! Accepted students work with a mentor and become a part of the open source community. Many become lifetime open source developers!

Google Summer of Code is open to university students, age 18 and older in most countries

Students contact the mentor organizations they want to work with and write up a project proposal for the summer. If accepted, students spend a month or more integrating with their organizations prior to the start of coding. Students then have three months to code, meeting the deadlines agreed upon with their mentors.

Summer of Code Internship

Application Deadline	March 31, 2020
Funding Type	Fully Funded
Type	Internship
Sponsor	Google
Gender	Men and Women

Benefits of Summer of Code Internship

 Accepted students spend the summer coding with guidance from a mentor (3 months).

1. Successful student contributors are given a $6000 USD stipend,  enabling the student concentrate on coding for 3 months
2. In 2017, we  are using a Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) based calculation to determine the stipend. We start with the base amount of $6000 USD then adjust it based on each country’s PPP value. There is a minimum ($2400) and maximum ($6000) value.

Requirements for Summer of Code Internship

To participate in the Program, a Student must:

1. be eighteen (18) years of age or older upon registration for the Program;
2. be enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution, including a college, university, masters program, PhD program and/or undergraduate program, as of the Acceptance Date;
3. for the duration of the Program, be eligible to work in the country in which he or she resides; and
4. not be an Organization Administrator or Mentor in the Program.

• Ineligible Individuals. A Student may not participate in the Program if:
  1. He or she is:
     1. a resident of a United States embargoed country;
     2. ordinarily resident in a United States embargoed country; or
     3. otherwise prohibited by applicable export controls and sanctions programs.
  2. He or she is an employee (including intern), contractor, officer, or director of:
     1. Google or its affiliates, or
     2. an Organization or any of its affiliates.
  3. He or she is an immediate family member (including a parent, sibling, child, spouse, or life partner regardless of where the Student lives) of one of the individuals listed in subsection (ii) above or a member of their household (whether related or not).
  4. He or she has participated as a Student in Google Summer of Code two (2) or more times previously.

Application Deadline

March 31, 2020

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Google on summerofcode.withgoogle.com to apply