October 22nd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Google’s R&D Center in Israel recently co-sponsored Hackathon@Nazareth, a 48 hour long hackathon style event, partnering with Tzofen, a non-profit organization that aims to integrate the Israel-Arab community into the high-tech industry.This Hack…
My Summer @ Google: Encouraging diversity and inclusion in the workplace
October 19th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Time flies! It seems like just yesterday I attended the Intern Orientation on the first day of my internship, but now I feel as if I have been on my team for years. As my last day is approaching, I am starting to feel a pang of sadness to leave my team…
Four tips towards a successful technical interview
October 18th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Christian, center, with fellow Googlers at the San Francisco Gay Pride ParadeIt seems like just yesterday that I was wandering around the Googleplex as a wide-eyed freshman during my first internship at Google. Fast-forward four years and I’ve just …
My Summer @ Google: AdCamp
October 16th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: We continue the My Summer @ Google series with a post from Nels, a junior at the University of Minnesota studying operations management, and information systems. Nels recently attended the first ever AdCamp, a four day program for rising …
My Summer @ Google: Focusing on AdSense users and customers
October 11th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Let’s say you tend to chew this particular type of gum that you just can’t seem to resist. But have you ever thought about why this gum attracts so many consumers in the first place? What if you could figure out what makes this particular gum so po…
October 10th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
We are getting ready to launch the 2013 Building Opportunities for Leadership and Development (BOLD) Internship application. The 11-week, paid summer internship is Google’s only non-technical, undergraduate internship program and offers participants …
October 10th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
During the last week of August 2012, Google hosted 235 students from 70 universities in 11 countries from all over the Middle East and North Africa for the second run of our Google Student Ambassador Program. With 160 more students than last year, the …
October 9th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: Our interns explore new ideas, accelerate the launch of new product features, and are big contributors to Google. Technical interns are embedded in every major engineering team where their impact is unconstrained by titles. They truly “…
October 8th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Entrepreneurship is at the heart of Google, tracing all the way back to the early days of the company when Larry and Sergey worked out of a garage in Menlo Park in 1998. Today, we have preserved much of the startup culture that gave birth to Google. In…
Students in Africa put their universities on Google Maps
October 7th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted from the Google Africa BlogNew to campus? Lost your way in the university? Check out the latest and detailed universities maps across sub saharan Africa . Map of University of Ghana, Accra Google Student Ambassadors from 65 …
My Summer @ Google: A lesson in personal branding at BOLD Symposium
October 5th, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Introduction: Over the summer we host a variety of programs and internships for technical and non-technical students. We’re relaunching the My Summer @ Google series to give you an inside look at each of these programs, hearing from the students them…
My Summer @ Google: Inspiring (and being inspired by) more women in technology
October 3rd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
My most memorable moment of my summer was my first day at Google Japan during Noogler (new Googler) Orientation. There were a dozen people starting that day, and 8 of us were women! I was even more excited to find out that they were still in college, …
EMEA Faculty Summit 2012
October 2nd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted from the Google Research BlogMichel Benard, University Relations ManagerLast week we held our fifth Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Faculty Summit in London, bringing together 94 of EMEA’s foremost computer science academics from 6…
October 2nd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
We were thrilled to invite 14 top Computer Science students who attend universities in Japan, Korea, and South East Asia to the 2012 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Retreat. From September 3rd – 5th, the Scholars gathered in the Singapore office…
Google Android Camp comes to London
October 2nd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
The Olympics haven’t been the only exciting event taking place in London this summer. From August 12th – 18th, 23 students descended on the Google London office for a jam-packed week of teaching, hacking, career development, networking and social act…