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The Google Earth Education team is excited to announce two new science outreach initiatives. Both are part of our effort to increase educational outreach and expand upon the successful workshop we held in Boulder at the University of Colorado in the sp…

Political participation is at an all-time high this election season, and a record number of voters have already started to cast ballots — a few even camped out in Ohio to be the first in line for early voting yesterday. But roughly 1 in 4 Americans …

Frontend web design and backend server programming are enough to make many people’s heads spin. However, for Matt Pokrzywa, it was the essence of his highly technical work during his summer internship with Google and the Checkout team. Here is his st…

After starting the week at UNC Greensboro, the Google Apps Road Trip was off to its next stop at my alma mater and home of the Cavaliers, the University of Virginia. Needless to say, as an alum, I was both giddy and nostalgic as we headed north on 29 t…

Last week kicked off our second week of the Google Apps Bus Tour adventure! The Google decorated school bus pulled into The Commons at Vanderbilt University early Thursday morning and prepared for a fun day with the Vandy students. It proved to be the …

Remember those days when you just couldn’t wait for the bell to ring on that last day of class? You’d sprint down the hall, burst through the door, and head for daylight, because it’s…SUMMERTIME! It’s time for iced lemonade and laying out at the bea…

At Google we’re committed to helping build a clean energy future, and we have several projects and initiatives in the works to support this goal. As part of that responsibility, Google has committed to being carbon-neutral, meaning we offset carbon for…

The Google “App to School” bus tour stopped at my campus, Abilene Christian University, on Monday, September 15th. The bus rolled into place early in the morning and by the time most students were heading to class the Googlers were hard at work showin…

The study of Computer Science can be challenging and fun, and Google wants to inspire students to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. With this in mind, our educational outreach group, University Programs, and Diversity and …

Back in October 2006, the Google Apps team met with Adrian Sannier, the Chief Technology Officer at Arizona State University. Just two weeks later we announced that ASU was the first major university to fully deploy Google Apps to its 65,000 students. …

At Google, we are trying to do more to increase diversity in the technology industry. If you are a computer science major you probably already know that women and minorities are significantly under-represented in the field. Did you know that each year …

Yesterday, the App to School bus rolled into Los Angeles for our first stop at the University of Southern California. The sun was shining, and the students were out in full force, visiting our demo stations, hanging out in our tour bus, and picking up …

Going to college can be exciting, but how do you keep your friends and family back at home updated on all the new things happening in your life? Well, one easy way is to create your own personal blog.Blogs are a great way to share information (just lik…

If you’re reading this you probably go to college, can’t wait to get to college, or desperately wish you were still in college. You’re in the right place. Some of us on the Apps for Education team are in the “still wish we were in college” camp and hav…

According to Google lore, our company founders didn’t really get along when they first met as Stanford graduate students in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was assigned to show him around cam…