Got this in my email inbox from someone at Google, sounds like good open source stuff!

Announcement:
November 28, 2007

Google announces first open source contest for pre-university students

Who doesn’t love a contest? We certainly do. Google believes strongly in
students having opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math,
and today at the Open Source Developers’ Conference in Brisbane, Australia
we’re pleased to announce the Google Highly Open Participation Contest to help
introduce secondary school and high school students to open source software
development.

Students can now visit http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/ to write
code and documentation, prepare training materials, conduct user-experience
research, and win prizes — t-shirts, cash, or, for ten grand-prize winners, a
chance to visit the Googleplex in Mountain View, Ca.

For the past three years college students have participated in Google Summer of
Code (http://code.google.com/soc/) with great results: hundreds of college
students have been introduced to open source software, thousands of people
across the globe have begun development together, and millions of lines of open
code have been produced. As we thought about what we could do to help encourage
students before university and build a pipeline of future talent, we developed
the Google Highly Open Participation Contest — the first contest from our open
source team exclusively for secondary school and high school students.

Google will work with ten open source organizations — Apache Software
Foundation, Drupal, GNOME, Joomla!, MoinMoin, Mono, Moodle, Plone, Python
Software Foundation, and SilverStripe CMS — for this pilot effort, each of
which will provide a list of tasks to be completed by the student participants.
Tasks typically fall into the following categories: code, documentation,
research, outreach, quality assurance, training, translation, and user
interface, so there should be something for everyone, and parents and educators
can help by sharing this opportunity with their children and students.

The contest is open to students age 13 and older who have not yet begun
university studies, and contestants will be able to claim tasks until 12:00
a.m. Pacific Time on January 22, 2008. We hope that students who participate
will be long-term contributors to these and other open source projects in the
future, and we look forward to announcing the grand-prize winners on February
11.

For more information, please visit http://code.google.com/opensource