Google is  committed to nurturing the next generation of computer scientists as well as encouraging more women to get into coding, so we have special prizes for all-student or all-female teams that make the second round — $1,000 dollars. If your application is the best within one of the three categories defined below in your region, you could win a prize of $20,000 dollars! The first round of submissions will start on the 24th of August 2012. The categories are:
  • Enterprise / Small Business Solutions e.g., Accounting, Sales, Workflow, Collaboration
  • Social / Personal Productivity / Games / Fun
  • Education / Not for Profit / Water / Food & Hunger / Health
Make sure you read all the details about the competition on the Google Apps Developer Challenge page and follow the hashtag  #gappschallenge on  Google+  for any additional updates. What are you waiting for? Get coding! Click here to learn more about the challenge: http://google-africa.blogspot.de/2012/06/fire-up-your-computer-2012-google-apps.html