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And that brings us back to this years recordhigh success rate. As a post on the Official Google Blog acknowledges, 85 percent of our student participants have successfully completed their projects. That number hasnt been higher than 83 percent in the past.Leslie Hawthorn, the Summer of Code Program Manager, then continued, Wed like to congratulate all of our student participants for their hard work and tremendous achievements this summer. Were excited to hear that many of our students have planned out the next few months of their coding work with their chosen open source project.