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Progress & Activity Contests 📢
🥇 LeetCode Monthly Challenges
What it is: Regular contests plus a gamified system that rewards daily streaks, consistency, and milestone badges.
Progress Focus: Ranking, badges (e.g. “100 days of code”), increasing difficulty tiers.
Great for: Interview prep, long-term practice.
🏆 Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
What it is: A program where students contribute to open source over 3+ months.
Progress Focus: Not a single contest it tracks contribution, proposal quality, project development and mentoring.
Great for: Long-term learning and real software engineering experience.