Google Skills Arcade 2026: Prize Counter Update

While I understand the logistical challenges behind moving to a single Prize Counter window, I’d like to share a few suggestions that could help maintain engagement and motivation within the community:

  • Certification Vouchers as Incentives:
    It would be highly beneficial if certification vouchers could be reintroduced, either for top performers (e.g., top 5-10%) or as milestone-based rewards. This would provide a more skill-oriented incentive aligned with the platform’s learning goals.

  • Quizzes and Leaderboards:
    Reintroducing quizzes similar to previous editions could help participants assess their understanding and identify knowledge gaps. Even if these quizzes don’t contribute points, maintaining a leaderboard (without rewards) would encourage healthy competition and consistent engagement.

  • Participant Feedback Portal:
    Establishing a structured feedback mechanism directly for participants-not just facilitators-would allow the community to share insights, challenges, and suggestions more effectively. This could significantly improve the overall experience and help the program evolve based on real user input.

@Yugali

its been 3 months of last cohort i have participated in December and still not get the swags i have mail to the support team printose+google3@printo.in and still not get any response of any update of order any no reply just autogenerated mail and i don; know why no one is talking about the swags please it a request that will we get swags or not please me it clear that and said don’t get in false assumptions or make it clear

because printose just ignore it

thanks for helping

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Yes. This is very sad and not so motivating - seeing the time and efforts being invested in. Not ideal for continutation on this.

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Thanks alot

Concerning but interesting, I have a question and hope I am not overstepping by asking it.

Do you mind sharing any further details on the logistics bottleneck causing delays? Is it simply a geopolitical issue given that global infrastructure is not so sturdy at the moment. Unfortunately, something always seems to be going on stateside as well :sad_but_relieved_face:.

My curiosity is getting the best of me here, thanks for reading.

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It is a bad decision, on this time.

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nice decision but I request to the community don’t take any action on collected badges because we collect badges and redeem to arcade point and don’t choose to lead Borad performer please Create a system in such a way that everyone’s badge points can be redeemed because collecting badges also requires the same skills that you want. txn… :blush:

Hello I am back

I raised a ticket with Printose to ask about for the Arcade Trooper Tier shipping progress . I understand the global situation, but at least they should reply with the current status. They are responsible for updating customers if they have received the information from Google. The Google Skill Arcade organizers also send updates to Arcade 2025 participants. If we received that kind of message, we would understand the situation better. Thank for your understanding.

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Yes Mam, My question is same, please tell us, what about the January to April and June points? Because, we know that Points are expired within 6 Months. And, Here April to December also is 7 months, January to June there are already completed 6 months, June to December also completed 6 months, if any cost there are prize counter will be opened in January 2027, then also the June points have to sacrifices. Then my humble request is, when all rules are changed then please change the Points Expiry date also:folded_hands: . Please Mam:folded_hands: , Please. Don’t do it us:folded_hands: . Please:folded_hands: .

That’s exactly what I am saying too, that there should be no changes with the complete badges and points…….

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Exactly. This is biggest fear : just see after completing 8 labs there are 1 points. This is a biggest hardworking, after that if all points are gone, then really disappointment. and, my requested for all persons, students, employee, and to all, please inform them to ask it again and again whenever it will be solved. because, this is the matter of there are April 5 arcade points + January to June 7 Bonus arcade points total 12 points.

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Will there be a change in points required for rewards? If yes what will it be.. Because if we think like according to the previous points neededd and work according to that but fail to achieve the new criteria it will leave a bad impact. Much worse if the points go unutilized.

It will be better if the new prize counter be revealed soon with how much points each tier needs

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@Yugali please reveal the new prize tier point system by this month (April 2026) so that the arcaders can do their learning plan.

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this is sad as we are college students and we have too see on multiple things and this new structure is crazy

Nearly which month the prize counter can open?

i still have 35 points , what should i do , it will expire in 26 days

If, you are in Google developer forums, then you an see @Yugali Mam’s Post, follow it, then you can see about yesterday’s post. See it. Thank you.

(and yeah , one things, it’s not about 26 days, it was 6 months)
and now, it is also secure, no Expiry date now . [reference: @Yugali]