Google launches global online science competition to recognise young scientists

Google, in partnership with CERN, LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American, has launched Google Science Fair, a global online science competition that aims to ‘help make today’s young scientists the rock stars of tomorrow’. According to Google, the competition is open to students around the world who are between the ages of 13-18 and have access to a computer, the internet and a web browser. Registration is open through April 4, 2011.

“In 1996, two young computer science students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had a hypothesis that there was a better way to find information on the web. They did their research, tested their theories and built a search engine which (eventually) changed the way people found information online. Larry and Sergey were fortunate to be able to get their idea in front of lots of people. But how many ideas are lost because people don’t have the right forum for their talents to be discovered? We believe that science can change the world—and one way to encourage that is to celebrate and champion young scientific talent as we do athletes and pop idols,” Cristin Frodella and Samantha Peter, education product marketing managers at Google, have said.