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September 23, 2013

top 15 projects

13-14 age category: Viney Kumar (Australia) — The PART (Police and Ambulances Regulating Traffic) Program. Viney’s project looked for new ways to to provide drivers with more notice when an emergency vehicle is approaching, so they can can take evasive action to get out of the emergency vehicle’s way.

15-16 age category: Ann Makosinski (Canada) — The Hollow Flashlight. Using Peltier tiles and the temperature difference between the palm of the hand and ambient air, Ann designed a flashlight that provides bright light without batteries or moving parts.

17-18 age category AND Grand Prize Winner: Eric Chen (USA) — Computer-aided Discovery of Novel Influenza Endonuclease Inhibitors to Combat Flu Pandemic. Combining computer modeling and biological studies, Eric’s project looks at influenza endonuclease inhibitors as leads for a new type of anti-flu medicine, effective against all influenza viruses including pandemic strains.

Viney, Ann, Elif and EricCERNLEGONational GeographicScientific American“Scientific American” Science in Action AwardGoogle Science FairPosted by Clare Conway, Google Science Fair team

Help inspire the next generation of technology creators: Apply for a 2014 RISE Award

August 1, 2013

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Supercharge your summer at Maker Camp

July 8, 2013

We’re pleased to have Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine and Maker Faire, join us today to talk about Maker Camp—a free, online summer camp for teens on Google+. Last year, more than 1 million campers joined in, and this summer is looking even brighter. Maker Camp will officially kick off at 11 a.m. PDT / 2 p.m. EDT today in a live Hangout On Air from San Francisco’s Exploratorium and will go on for the next six weeks. - Ed.Maker CampGoogle+ Community for Maker Campon this mapRaspberry Pi boardsArduino microcontrollersMake on Google+Posted by Dale Dougherty, founder and publisher of MAKE magazine and Maker Faire

Connecting across continents

June 27, 2013

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Connecting ContinentsPosted by Will Houghteling, Lead, Google+ Education Partnerships

Google scholarships recognize 84 computer science scholars in Europe, Middle East, and Africa

June 19, 2013

PDFGoogle Anita Borg Memorial ScholarshipDr. Anita BorgU.S. recipientsGoogle Europe Scholarship for Students with DisabilitiesKanchi.orgGoogle StudentsPosted by Efrat Aghassy, EMEA scholarships program manager

90 ideas to change the world: Announcing Google Science Fair Finalists

June 11, 2013

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The 90 Regional Finalists come from all over the world.Scientific American Science in Action AwardPosted by Sam Peter, Google Science Fair team

Congratulations to the 2013 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholars

May 21, 2013

Dr. Anita BorgThe Anita Borg Institute for Women and TechnologySystersGrace Hopper Celebration of Women in ComputingGoogle Anita Borg Memorial ScholarshipUnited StatesCanadaFind out morearound the worldGoogle Scholarships sitePosted by Azusa Liu, Student Development Programs Specialist

A new kind of summer job: open source coding with Google Summer of Code

April 22, 2013

Google Summer of Code

website177 open source projectsStudent ManualGoogle Open Source blogmailing listsFreenodePosted by Stephanie Taylor, Open Source team

In support of a national STEM Teacher Corps

April 22, 2013

President Obama saidhis budgetwhite paperMath For AmericaBroad InstitutePosted by Jordan Lloyd Bookey, Head of K-12 Education Outreach and Nancy Lee, Director of People Operations

Enabling the next generation of computer scientists with CS4HS

March 27, 2013

Computer Science for High School (CS4HS)siteMOOCCS4HS Community pagePosted by Erin Mindell, Program Manager, EngEDU

Doodle 4 Google: A stately competition

February 21, 2013

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Download an entry formVote for your Irish favorites nowwww.google.iePosted by Ryan Germick, Doodle Team Lead

RISE Awards 2013: A global effort

February 14, 2013

“I am standing in a partial enclosure made of sticks and plant fronds. This is the school for roughly 35 students, ranging in age from three to about 20 years old. There are no desks. There is only a single shared chalkboard, and it has gaping holes.” — David Rathmann-Bloch from the 21st Century Chalkboard Project, writing from rural Haiti.RISE Awards

Some, such as Haiti’s 21st Century Chalkboard Project and the Uniristii Association (site in Romanian) in Romania, help those from underserved communities gain access to computing resources.

Others, like the U.K.’s Code Club and the U.S.’s CodeNow, offer extracurricular activities that help interested children, especially those from underrepresented minority backgrounds, to learn programming.

A few, such as the Middle East’s MEET and iLab Liberia, seek to use technology education as a platform to bridge wider social and cultural divides.

Some, like Girlstart in the U.S. and New Zealand’s Programming Challenge 4 Girls, aim to empower girls to study science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Posted by Roxana Shirkhoda, Education Outreach Specialist

Google Science Fair: Looking for the next generation of scientists and engineers to change the world

January 30, 2013

Louis BrailleAda LovelaceAlexander Graham Bellearly diagnosis of breast cancerimproving the experience of listening to music for people with hearing losscataloguing the ecosystem found in water

Students can enter the Science Fair in 13 languages.

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2013 at 11:59 pm PDT.

In June, we’ll recognize 90 regional finalists (30 from the Americas, 30 from Asia Pacific and 30 from Europe/Middle East/Africa).

Judges will then select the top 15 finalists, who will be flown to Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. for our live, final event on September 23, 2013.

At the finals, a panel of distinguished international judges consisting of renowned scientists and tech innovators will select top winners in each age category (13-14, 15-16, 17-18). One will be selected as the Grand Prize winner.

Prizes$50,000 Science in Action prize

In August, the public will have the opportunity to get to know our 15 finalists through a series of Google+ Hangouts on Air and will then vote for the Voter's Choice Award—an award selected by the public for the project with the greatest potential to change the world.

We also recognize that behind every great student there’s often a great teacher and a supportive school, so this year we’ll award a $10,000 cash grant from Google and an exclusive Google+ Hangout with CERN to the Grand Prize winner’s school.

Google+ Hangouts on Airwww.googlesciencefair.comPosted by Sam Peter, Google Science Fair TeamUpdate July 30:

Chromebooks for classrooms: $99 for the holidays

December 10, 2012

DonorsChoose.orgSamsung Series 5 Chromebookfollow the instructionslist of Chromebook projects

Update Dec 11DonorsChoose.orgPosted by Rajen Sheth, Group Product Manager

Help train the next generation of computer scientists with a CS4HS grant from Google

December 3, 2012

teacher’s forumqualifying regionswww.cs4hs.comK-12 educators pagewebsitePosted by Erin Mindell, Program Manager, Google Education

Celebrating teachers who make a difference with Google

October 1, 2012

teachingYouTube EduGoogle Apps for Educationcost-efficient devices like Chromebooks

400+ universities are posting lectures and/or full courses online using YouTube Edu

600,000 staff from the Philippines Department of Education will now be using Google Apps

Universities across the continents are signing up for Apps, including schools in Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Africa

More than 500 schools and districts went back to school with Chromebooks this fall

Seven of the eight Ivy League universities and 72 of this year’s top 100 U.S. universities (as determined by 2013 U.S. News and World Report’s ranking) have gone Google with Google Apps for Education

Google in Education pagePosted by Cristin Frodella, Google in Education

Our roots go global: Apply for a RISE Award today

August 2, 2012

Google RISE

on our websiteSubmit your applicationPosted by Roxana Shirkhoda, K-12 Education Outreach Specialist

The winners of the 2012 Google Science Fair

July 23, 2012

renowned judgestop 15 projects

13-14 age category: Jonah Kohn (USA)—“Good Vibrations: Improving the Music Experience for People with Hearing Loss Using Multi-Frequency Tactile Sound.” By creating a device that converts sound into tactile vibrations, Jonah’s project attempts to provide the hearing impaired with an improved experience of music.

15-16 age category: Iván Hervías Rodríguez, Marcos Ochoa and Sergio Pascual (Spain)—“La Vida Oculta del Agua (The Secret Life of Water).” Iván, Marcos and Sergio studied hidden microscopic life in fresh water, documenting the organisms that exist in a drop of water, and how those organisms influence our environment.

17-18 age category AND Grand Prize Winner: Brittany Wenger (USA)—“Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” Brittany’s project harnesses the power of the cloud to help doctors accurately diagnose breast cancer. Brittany built an application that compares individual test results to an extensive dataset stored in the cloud, allowing doctors to assess tumors using a minimally-invasive procedure.

prizesScientific AmericanScientific American Science in Action awardPosted by Cristin Frodella, Google in Education

Our unique approach to research

July 2, 2012

research projectPeter NorvigSlav Petrov“Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research,”Communications of the ACMOur model allows us to work at unparalleled scale and conduct research in vivo on real systems with millions of users, rather than on artificial prototypes. This yields not only innovative research results and new technologies, but valuable new capabilities for the company—think of MapReduce, Voice Search or open source projects such as Android and Chrome.Google Translate“Google’s Hybrid Approach to Research”Research at GooglePosted by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives

Using large-scale brain simulations for machine learning and A.I.

June 26, 2012

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One of the neurons in the artificial neural network, trained from still frames from unlabeled YouTube videos, learned to detect cats. ICMLour Google+ postthe full papertrillionPosted by Jeff Dean, Google Fellow and Andrew Ng, Visiting Faculty

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