Abhishek Arora, the compumarvel kid
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The compumarvel kid Abhishek Arora had already figured in our Icon section. An exclusive interview write up by his father has been put up for reader enrichment. Abhishek is almost on the edge of being an entrepreneur who shall work on his passion and someday will have an enterprise on his own, in search engine functions. Arora, is much fascinated by the Search Engines that one day he would work in this area to go further. Shortly this boy is sure to feature in our Entrepreneur News section too.This marvelous talent is an inborn instinct, which when properly nurtured yields excellent output to the whole mankind. He is the True Example of `Creating Opportunities.’
This is what M L Arora, a proud father has to say about Abhishek, `My son Abhishek Arora, student of class 9 at Delhi Public School, Rohini, has cracked the Google code In contest organised by Google for the pre university students around the world. He is one of the youngest of the ten grand prizewinners. He accumulated second highest number of points in the eight-week contest. Abhishek has been invited to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA in early June along with a parent or legal guardian for a four-night trip. During the trip, there will be an award ceremony where grand prizewinners will receive the trophy, an opportunity to meet with Google engineers, and enjoy a fun day exploring San Francisco. In addition to the trip, Abhishek has also received a sum of USD 500 as prize money.
Google Code-In a contest designed to introduce students between 13 and 17 years to various kinds of open-source software development. Google Code-in 2011 had 542 pre-university students (ages 13-17) participating from 56 countries during the eight week contest period.
Participants had to write or re-factor codes, create or edit documents, handle community management and outreach or marketing, test codes for high quality, study a problem and recommend solutions.
During the contest Abhishek Arora completed Highest number of tasks as compared to any other contestant, 60 in total for five open source projects: SymPy, Sahana Software Foundation, KDE, Haiku, Open Intents. This is the link to the official announcement by Google – http://google-opensource.blogspot.in/2012/02/google-code-in-2011-grand-prize-winners.html’
Way2World congratulates on behalf of our readers and our team. We also wish him a grand success in all his endeavors. Abhiskek is the ideal innovator who with his positive thinking is the ICON to all our youngsters.