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<head>
<title>YH4F: Coding is over!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>YH4F: Coding is over!</h1>
<p>The second edition of Youth Hacking 4 Freedom, the hacking
competition for young Europeans has just ended. For the last six
months, the participants have worked on developing their own personal
Free Software projects.</p>
<figure>
<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/3f/12/898d5df0d133996094da93e2472e.jpg"
alt="Iamge with a laptop with some code in the screen"/>
</figure>
<p>Nearly 70 young people from across Europe signed up for the new
edition of Youth Hacking 4 Freedom, a competition for European
teenagers to develop their coding skills and win great cash prizes.
</p>
<p>This second edition, which started last January, was accompanied by
a new activity: a monthly meeting where participants had the
opportunity to discuss their technical problems and learn some tips
from different Free Software experts. These meetings have also been a
way to keep in touch during the last months, and a way to support each
other, promoting one of the principles of Free Software, the creation
of community. These open and voluntary meetings allowed those attending
to talk and connect with each other in smaller groups.</p>
<blockquote> <italic>"The monthly meetings provide an opportunity to talk and
connect with other participants and have helped to form friendships
throughout the contest. It has been great to see how well these
meetings have been received by the participants. And it is a really rewarding experience to be able to help young people
from all over Europe to meet other Free Software enthusiasts!"</italic>, <em> says Bonnie Mehring, YH4F project
manager.</em>
</blockquote>
<p>After six hard working months of coding, it is now the turn of <a href="/activities/yh4f/jury.html">the
YH4F jury </a> to evaluate the participants
submitted projects. The jury is composed by Free Software professionals
with different background and technological skills, that will review
the projects within the next weeks taking into consideration different
criteria such as the originality of the idea, the creativity of the
project or the quality of the code. </p>
<p>After the first round of voting the jury will decide which of the
submitted projects could be considered for one of the cash prizes.
Then, the owners of those projects will be invited to an online
interview to present it and answer the jury questions. Afterwards the
jury will decide on the prizes.</p>
<h3>Brussels is awaiting!</h3> <p>In the coming weeks, the winners will
be announced based on the judges' scores, and prizes will be awarded at
the YH4F Awards ceremony in Brussels in mid October, to which all
participants will be invited for an all-expenses-paid weekend.</p>
<p>Six winners will receive cash prizes ranging from €4,096 to €1,024 each, at
a ceremony featuring top Free Software speakers.</p>
<p><strong>Keep up to date to our next news to learn about this year amazing projects and the winners!</strong></p>
</body>
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<tag key="yh4f">Youth Hacking 4 Freedom</tag>
<tag key="education">Education</tag>
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<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/1053"/>
<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/3f/12/898d5df0d133996094da93e2472e.jpg"
alt="Image with a laptop with some code in the screen"/>
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