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Diary of a Summer Intern - Rio
August 30, 2012
“So when’s your last day again?”
I pause for a moment, hoping that by delaying the answer I also delay the inevitable truth that I’ve hoped would never come. The flurry of goodbye emails in my inbox from the other interns don’t hide the fact that at some point I have to do the same, too. Being an intern means that a semester of school and classes are waiting for me back in the United States. It will be exciting to be back at work at school, but I still need some time to context switch, if you know what I mean!
Rio with fellow interns Oscar (left) and Rodrigo (right)
There are so many things to look back upon this summer, and there’s no denying that the people I worked with make a large part of the powerful experience that comes with working at Google. Everyone at Google works to make things better for their users, even if it means staying up late to fix a bug or responding to an email. At the end of the day, though, I think what will remain with me the most is the feeling that I had of always being on the edge of my seat - every day I could come in to work with the knowledge that something awesome would get done by the end of the day - if not by me, then by someone else on my team or in the office. That fast cycle of high calibre innovation is extremely inspiring. And working at the scale of Google means being entrusted with a lot of responsibility, even as an intern!
One of the things that I’ve really appreciated as an intern working in Tokyo is that even with the time difference between here and Mountain View, working at Google makes that gap feel small. In fact, I’ve had the opportunity to connect with offices in Bangalore, New York, San Bruno, London (and with the other
Diary of A Summer Interns
Jess
in Pittsburgh and
Franklin
in Zurich!) all with the click of a button and
amazing video technology
. (It’s the same technology that allowed me, sitting in Tokyo, to
watch Google I/O
live from San Francisco). Just remember, though - it’s (
almost!
) really tough to schedule an office meeting with people from San Francisco, Zurich and Tokyo at the same time, because those time zones span a full 16 hours!
The past couple of weeks have been busy with rolling out other YouTube captions-related features and doing a lot of impact analysis, to make sure that the features do actually get used. After all, the best features are the ones that are the most useful, the ones that users say, “Yes, that’s exactly what I wanted!” One thing I’ve noticed is that it's easy to want to change the way a webpage or feature looks -- but
how
to introduce the new designs/features (so people react positively) is also really important.
Aside from work, I helped put together and present a feature on interns at the Tokyo office at our Friday social get-together, TGIF. It’s really neat to be able to see what the other interns in the office are working on. I also attended a
Mystery Lunch
, in which Googlers from around the office get randomly selected into groups to have lunch together. I also gave a lightning talk on some of my summer work, which is quite the challenge because you’re only allowed five minutes to present!
They say the best way to learn from the best is to be among them. I will miss the countless people who made me feel welcome, who encouraged me along the way, and who pushed me to tackle big problems. I can only hope that many more people try and apply for internships at Google, because we know there isn’t any shortage of big problems to solve!
皆さん、お疲れさまです！またいつか会いましょう！
Fun Google Fact:
Did you know there are at least 30 different internships roles at Google, and that this summer’s intern class included (at least one) Google Doodle intern and one industrial design intern? How cool is that?
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Diary of a Summer Intern - Franklin
August 22, 2012
Not too long ago, I arrived here in Zurich, and on August the 31st I am to leave Google. During the last three months as an intern at Google, I have gained years of practical and theoretical knowledge that has made everything I’ve learnt over the past four years at university a lot clearer to me. I found myself reflecting upon my “younger” days when I would sit through an entire lecture and at the end of it I walk out of the lecture room having learnt something; something that I had a slight recollection of months later. Honestly, like most of my other colleagues, I kept wondering,
“How is this applicable in real life?”
Over the course of my life as a software developer, I have had to interact with other software developers, say, in a team working on a project. Looking back at the code we wrote, frankly speaking, I am so embarrassed to think that I termed it coding! At Google, before the code you’ve worked on has been submitted to production, it goes through a release process that is thorough. This means that before the actual users can see the change that you have made, rigorous sanity checks have been done to ensure the users are not remotely affected. Code reviews is one such way of ensuring code is at production quality. My first code review was littered with comments on almost every line, either informing me of a better way to write a code segment or some condition to take care of that might break the system in the long run.
The saner side of the Zurich street parade,
thousands of people marched those streets!
As I conclude my internship and get ready to leave Google, I know I’m leaving as better person than I came -- a better person in all aspects of the word. My Google experience has brought much of my theoretical knowledge acquired to life. I have been faced with numerous occassions where I needed to directly or indirectly apply a concept I had learnt at some point in my undergraduate. Previously, I used to think to myself,
“How is this applicable in real life?”
but currently, my thought process has been enhanced to,
“Which concept can I apply to best solve this problem?”
. Here at Google, I have learnt best practices, I have learnt to optimize, I have learnt to secure, I have learnt to design, I have learnt foresight, I have learnt teamwork, I have learnt to pay attention to detail. I've seen my code improve tremendously throughout the summer thanks to this review process. Basically, I have learnt to code like the professionals, like a real programmer. Can I call myself a software engineer now? Well, I’m still working on that :-) Yesterday I submitted some code for review, and the response I got from my manager read:
At Mt. Titlis with my team on a cable car,
talk of a Wednesday well spent!
“The code quality looks very high this time. Great improvement!”
Talk of an ego boost! :-)
Saying goodbye to Google is going to be hard. Like I told my colleagues, Google is my first real work experience and it has “ruined” all my future employment opportunities because Google is unmatched. My current aspiration would be to secure a permanent position at Google. I came, I saw, I learnt....still waiting to conquer!
- Franklin
Fun Google Fact:
Just when I thought I had exhausted seeing every Google employee in the Zurich office, I always end up seeing a new face I don’t recognise.
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Diary of a Summer Intern - Luke
August 20, 2012
I’ve been sitting in front of this blank Google Doc for about 30 minutes now, trying to figure how my final entry could possibly bring justice to what an amazing summer this has been. This week will be the last of my summer internship, and although I have already parted ways with my team (who will be at an off-site), there are still a number of projects I have to wrap up at work.
A couple of weeks ago I accompanied my team to Chicago, Illinois for one of the most epic music festival experiences ever. As
Lollapalooza
is one of the many music festivals we stream on YouTube, a few members of my team worked in a production truck to ensure a smooth broadcast. Being at the festival for work meant that a lot of my time was spent in the truck managing the channel, but it also meant I was hooked up with a spiffy “Crew Chief” badge on my breaks. Chief of Crew meant free food and drink, as well as backstage access to any stage, but most importantly, it meant the opportunity to brush shoulders with Andrew Wyatt from Miike Snow and exchange a few words with Alan Palomo from Neon Indian. Halfway through Neon Indian’s set on Saturday we got word that the festival was being evacuated due to thunderstorms. After three hours of waiting we were allowed to return back to the festival grounds where we discovered our truck was flooded. The Lollapalooza staff and YouTube team worked with incredible speed and efficiency to get things back in order and were able to bring the Red Hot Chili Peppers
live
to the many viewers tuning in.
I wrapped my muddy Vans in a plastic bag and returned to San Francisco on Tuesday afternoon. The next day I delivered my final presentation on what I had worked on this summer and had a meeting with the head of my team about a side project I’ve been working on. This next week I’ll be editing a team video, wrapping up my main project, and packing my bags to return to good ol’e Austin, Texas. I’ll miss the YouTube office: the putting green in front of my desk, the disc golf course in the back of the office, and the cafe that has spoiled me rotten, but most of all, I’ll miss the people. Working with a team that brings so many amazing experiences to the YouTube community has taught me a number of invaluable lessons, both about myself and the world of media. They say that all good things come to an end, but I say that many good things live on in their own unique way. Parting ways with my cubicle and scooter will be sad, but I’ll leave peacefully knowing that many of the lessons I learned this summer will shape how I approach my final year at school.
- Luke
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Diary of a Summer Intern - Rio
August 13, 2012
It’s launched!
One of my photos of the fireworks display from the
27th Kanagawa-Shimbun
Fireworks Festival
Those words defined the start of the fireworks display that I watched from the Tokyo oceanfront piers last week. Fireworks are a traditional Japanese summer activity and occur nearly every weekend in August all across town. Those words also accompanied the unveiling of a new feature I've worked on at YouTube. For me, the two words also mixes excitement and anticipation about sharing a new feature for YouTube’s global audience—
online caption editing
.
This feature expands on YouTube’s caption management system, letting you make edits and changes directly to captions online instead of making an entirely new caption file. And the work doesn’t end with the launch - I have to monitor user feedback and logs to confirm that people are actually using the tool.
A week ago, I traveled to YouTube's San Bruno headquarters to meet with the team—including those who work on YouTube player and the folks that help video creators manage their library. When you handle
72 hours of video uploaded every minute
and 4 billion hours of video watched by users per month, there’s a significant impact that a single improvement can have, and lots of priorities to juggle. For example, my project required me to work with user experience designers to craft an intuitive workflow, coordinate efforts to ensure that engineering goes smoothly, and test the end features to make sure they work for users. To me, it felt like trying to be a concert conductor in a noisy field.
I could only understand about 20% of what this elderly gentleman was saying
because he had a strong accent, but he survived the tsunami that destroyed his
village. Everyone from the village survived, fortunately.
On a non-work related note, one of the most memorable things to happen during my couple months interning at YouTube was a trip to the northern part of Japan, which was ravaged by last year’s earthquake and tsunami and is still trying desperately to recover.
GoogleServe
is a project that lets Googlers take time off to participate in volunteering activities, but with everyone’s busy schedules, we decided this year to have the volunteer work occur over the weekend. We jumped into a chartered overnight bus to Matsushima, where we spent two days helping fishermen by collecting bamboo shoots for raftmaking material, tying ropes, and stacking shells that serve as the feeding spot for oysters. There was opportunity to listen to folks from the community, which reminded me that there was still so much do in the northern part of Japan. Currently, we’re trying to see if there are ways Googlers can use their technology know-how to provide long terms sustainability to the region.
- Rio
Fun Google Fact:
GoogleServe started in 2008 as an employee initiative and has since become a “Global Week of Service”. This year over 5,000 Google employees donated their time to everything from computer literacy and refurbishing computers to beach cleaning and Hangouts on Air with students from around the world. You can see a video from one of the first
projects
in 2008 out of the Milan office where employees helped paint goalposts with kids.
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Diary of a Summer Intern - Pablo
August 13, 2012
Like most good things in life, my internship is
coming to an end
-- eleven weeks that have passed by so fast that I finally couldn’t do some things that I mentioned in the
previous post
. I didn’t have time for the bowling game, but I leave so many friends here at Google that I’m sure I’ll come back to play with them!
To wrap up my internship I had a chance to present the outcomes of my projects three times: once to my team (and some other folks from other teams that wanted to join), once to the other marketing interns, and once to the director of my group. In all of those presentations I felt like people really cared about my job. Being an ex-consultant I can tell you this is not always the case outside Google. And that’s one of the things that I liked the most from my time here.
As I said in previous posts, you have amazing perks at Google and you work on real challenging problems, but there are other things that also make Google a unique place to work and that are harder to find at other places. Let me share with you the two that I found to be the most compelling of all.
First is how candid and open Google’s culture is. I would have never imagined that the senior management of a company with more than 30,000 employees worldwide would take the time, every single week, to talk all employees about what’s going on in the company. New products, industry news, whatever it is, every Friday afternoon senior members of the company would talk about it openly and would take any questions from Googlers in the audience and worldwide. Their answers are authentic, not cliche or pre-recorded. Listening to
Eric Schmidt
,
Larry Page
,
Sergey Brin
,
Nikesh Arora
,
Vic Gundotra
, and other top executives, standing just 10 meters from you, talk about hot new products and industry updates is unbelievable.
The second thing I want to mention is the Googlers themselves. I have worked with some of the most brilliant people I’ve met in my life and yet they were always humble and open to opinions and suggestions from someone like me, who had been in the team just for a few weeks. It is truly amazing how everybody’s opinion is not only respected but taken into serious consideration. This encourages everybody to throw ideas to the table no matter how long you’ve been with the company or how crazy the idea is. It is fantastic.
I’m sad to leave, but school starts soon. As I pack my things all I can do is thank the Googlers for an amazing summer.
Pablo
Fun Google Fact:
If you like Google’s Doodles as much as I do (a lot) you might find interesting that the
very first Doodle
(this one) was designed as a kind of “Out-Of-Office” message. In 1998 Sergey and Larry took the weekend off to go the Burning Man festival in Nevada. The Doodle was designed to let their users know they were out of office and couldn’t fix technical issues like a server crash while they were gone.
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Conquer the back to school blues with Google tools
August 9, 2012
Cross-posted from the
Official Google Blog
August is both an end to the lush freedom of summer and the beginning of another year of student life. As a rising senior at the University of Florida, this time is both exciting and anxiety-inducing. Even though I’m looking forward to many aspects of the school year, there are certain things about college—from book budgets to calculus study sessions—that can make it a headache.
But this fall, I feel more prepared to face the daily student grind. This summer, I had the chance to intern on the communications team at Google and got the inside track on some tools and tricks to make school a snap. For example, did you know there was an
extension for Chrome
that helps you stay focused on your work? Yup, didn’t think so! So I thought I’d share some of my new favorite tips—my “Survival Guide for Student Life”—to help make it easier for all students to get through the coming months.
Easy ways to coordinate your social and extracurricular life
Google+ Hangouts enables you to video chat with up to nine friends from your desktop,
mobile phone or tablet
. A great feature for when your club needs to discuss some last minute changes for the upcoming meeting.
Stay on task with
Hangout Apps
like Symphonical, which provides a digital wall of sticky notes for virtual brainstorm sessions.
With
Google+ Events
, invite all your friends to your get-together and attach a personalized video greeting to the invitation. During the event, photos from the party can be uploaded to the event page in real-time using Party Mode. So if you have to miss a party due to a study session, you can avoid that pesky FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)!
Let your friends know what you’re up to by sharing your Google Calendar with them. Or create a shared calendar just for your study group.
Stay organized and efficient—and be prepared for the unexpected
Stop the email flood from the ridiculous number of email lists you signed up for using Gmail’s
auto-unsubscribe
feature.
No more sore eyes from crowded inboxes—Gmail's default mode is
Priority Inbox
so it automatically sorts your important messages for you.
Cite your sources! Use Google Docs’
research tool
to investigate highlighted portions of your essay and then generate a citation.
Group projects call for collaboration. With
Google Drive
, you can use shared folders so everyone can access materials without having to email updates to each other.
Using your laptop or phone, you can send any documents or presentations saved on your Google Drive to
Fedex
to be printed, thanks to Google Cloud Print.
Get what you need and where you’re going faster
For those of you starting at university this year, Google Maps has 360-degree panoramic
Street View imagery
for many campuses around the world to give you a preview of your new stomping grounds.
Back to school shopping is one of the most fun things about August. Find your way in and out of malls and department stores with
indoor Google Maps
on Android devices.
We college students can’t go too long without homemade food. Search for your next flight home with
Flight Search
. (If flying makes you a bit queasy, track any care packages by typing the tracking code into the Google search bar.)
Stay informed with
Google Now
. This feature, available on Android devices running Jelly Bean, can update you when the next bus is coming or provide the weather forecast for Saturday’s big game.
Reading, writing, 'rithmetic and... YouTube
Don’t break the bank on textbooks. Google Play has millions of FREE (emphasis is important) books readily available such as "
Pride and Prejudice
" and "
Gulliver’s Travels
."
With the new
Nexus 7 tablet
, you can take your
Google Play
books, music, movies, TV shows, magazines and apps (like
My Majors
and
doubleTwist Alarm Clock
) with you, wherever you go.
Locate hard-to-find books online or at a library near you with
Book Search
.
Put Chrome to work with educational
apps
.
Not a fan of traditional note taking?
Chromebooks
are a super fast and virus-proof laptop. It starts seconds after you boot it and will last through a whole day of classes.
A fair portion of us students aren’t fans of mental math. Type any equation into the Google search box to get the answers you need. It can
graph functions
as well.
We know we spend too much of our time watching funny videos on YouTube, but there are video channels that can actually help us learn more about a variety of subjects—from
astrophysics
to
world history
. Find more educational channels at
YouTube EDU
.
I’m resting a bit easier now that I know there are tools that make student life a bit less overwhelming. Here’s hoping you, too, feel armed to face the fall semester—and beyond—with Google in your backpack.
Posted by Jenise Araujo, BOLD Intern, Communications Team
The results are in for the Google Online Marketing Challenge
August 8, 2012
What happens when you give hundreds of student teams across the world an AdWords online advertising budget of US$250 and three weeks to help a local business improve their marketing campaign? You get the annual
Google Online Marketing Challenge
(GOMC) which is now in its fifth and most competitive year yet. A total of 11,000 students from 86 countries/territories participated in this year’s challenge and the results are in.
Global Winner
The Global Winning team comes from the
Warsaw School of Economics
in Poland, under
Professor Tymoteusz Doligalski
. The team of
Piotr Wawrysiuk, Kamil Borkowski, Joanna Sakowska, Aneta Maliszewska, and Łukasz Kanownik
worked with
Rowery Embassy
, a bicycle company in Warsaw that specializes in beach cruisers. The team is the first ever Global Winner to come from Europe and helped to increase bicycle sales and brand awareness. Their three-week campaign generated almost 40,000 impressions and over 300% return on investment.
Regional Winners
The Asia Pacific Winner comes from the
University of Asia and the Pacific
in the Philippines, under
Professor Kahlil Corazo
. The team of
Hannah Ishael Tan, Danna Anne Marie Lee, and Kyne Darby Santos
worked with
Olivia and Fifth
, a fashion boutique. The student team increased current and future sales by boosting alert sign ups and order leads.
The Americas Winner comes from
James Madison University
in Virginia, under
Professor Theresa Clarke
. The team of
Rachel Krause, Tara Goode, and Nicole Behr
worked with
Triple C Camp
, a summer day camp and challenge course located in Virginia. The Triple C Camp campaign successfully grew website traffic and CTR.
The Europe Winner comes from the
University of Applied Science Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS)
in Germany, under
Professor Mario Fischer
. The team of
Urs Merkel, Christian Pregitzer, Martin Gelowicz, and Stefanie Niggemann
worked with
MTRShop24
, an online fashion accessories boutique. The MTR24 campaign had two key goals, to boost awareness and increase shop sales, which the student team achieved.
The Middle East/Africa Winner comes from
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
, under
Professor Sarit Moldovan
. The team of
Alex Zhitnitsky, Oshri Rozenheck, and Boris Fridman
worked with the
Perach Tutoring Project
, a mentoring/tutoring program for disadvantaged children. The Perach campaign focused on increasing volunteers for its tutoring project which it succeeded in doing with over 150 volunteer sign ups.
Full 2012 Team Results
Click here
to see the rankings of all competing teams, including Finalists and Semi-Finalists.
Social Media Award Winners
We’re also pleased to announce the winners of the first ever Social Media Award, awarded to the GOMC team that runs the best Google+ page for their company or organization. This year's global winner comes from the
University of Texas at Austin
under
Professor Lisa Dobias
. The team of
Caroline Snavely, Kristin Carden, Kimberly Bolton, and Ellen Webb
worked with
The Impeccable Pig
, a fashion boutique with five locations and an online store.
The Asia Pacific Winner comes from
Edith Cowan University
in Australia, under
Professor Katrina Hibbs
. The team of
Elliot Crewe, Mohamed Athif, Darel Coutinho, Kirsty Watkins, Greg Murray, and Luke Ramponni
worked with
Blackwood River Houseboats
, a houseboat rental company in South West Australia.
The Americas Winner comes from
University of South Florida
, under
Professor Scott Liu
. The team of
Raneshia Lawrence, Ryan Sauer, Sean Kernan, Elise Fisher, Krista West, and Cori O'Brien
worked with
Cigar City Brewing
, a craft brewery and tasting room.
The Europe Winner comes from
INESDI – Instituto de Innovación Digital de las Profesiones
in Spain, under
Professor Roberto Garcia
. The team of
Eduardo Cerezo Carrera, Marta Gomez Gil, and Maria Susana Morin Vargas
worked with
Asociación Protégeles
, the Center for Internet Safety for children in Spain.
The Middle East/Africa Winner comes from
Bethlehem University
in the West Bank, under
Professor Nadira Alaraj
. The team of
Hiba Stephan, Dina Massad, Ameer Salameh, Bishara Al Hodali, Orianna Salameh, and Zaid Hilal
worked with the
Al-Harah Theater
, a community theater in Beit Jala, West Bank.
We will be announcing the winning teams of the Social Impact Award in late August. This recognizes the GOMC teams that made an outstanding difference to their nonprofit partners via superb online marketing campaigns.
To learn more about the Google Online Marketing Challenge, please visit our website:
www.google.com/onlinechallenge
.
Posted by Sowmya Ramakrishnan, Product Marketing Manager
Hangout On Air with Google Interns
August 7, 2012
In this year's edition of
Diary of a Summer Intern
, we've given you a glimpse at what life is like as a Google intern. We've been following
five interns
this summer from our offices around the world as they the take on the challenges and adventures brought on by a Google internship. To give you an even better perspective of the projects they've been working on and the experiences they've been having, we're going to host a Hangout On Air with all of them on this Friday, August 10th at 8:00 am PDT (find your local time
here
).
Jess
,
Luke
,
Franklin
,
Pablo
, and
Rio
will talk about their internships and answer your questions live from our
Google Students page
on Google+. You can submit your questions (and vote on others!)
here
or share a post on Google+ or Twitter and include the hashtag #GoogleInternHangout. Don't worry if you can't watch the Hangout live -- we'll be uploading the recording to our
YouTube channel
once it's over.
We hope to see you there!
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Diary of a Summer Intern - Jess
August 7, 2012
Hello, internet!
Shameless plug: all of this year’s
Diary of a Summer Intern bloggers
will be hosting a
Hangout on Air
from the
Google Students Google+ page
this Friday. Anyone can watch, so if you’re interested in hearing more from us, come tune in at
11:00am EST
on 10 August. You can also submit and vote on questions for us to answer
here
.
The end of my internship is (sadly) approaching but I’m busier than ever. There’s a poster session happening here next week in which all of the Pittsburgh interns present their projects via poster boards and the rest of the office is welcome to browse and ask questions. I have some experience with poster presentations from science project competitions I was involved in during high school, but they still make me nervous! I’m also working on my projects, of course, and with less than four weeks left, I’m definitely feeling the pressure.
Dan Klein (left), one of my SRE coworkers, talking to me (center)
and my partner David (right, in white) on the boat.
Fortunately, as always, there are always fun things to do around work to help mitigate the stress. Last Thursday, interns and hosts and guests all went on the intern
boat cruise
around the three rivers of Pittsburgh.
Despite living in Pittsburgh for nearly four years, I’d never been on the river cruise, so it was a nice way to spend a relaxing evening. Last Friday there was also an intern picnic over in
Mellon Park
, which is right across the street from Google Pittsburgh’s office. Chef Lee provided the food and it was excellent, as always.
It’s hard to believe that in a month, I’ll be back in school. Working at Google has been a great experience; between the culture, the work environment, the
awesome
products
we
put
out
, and especially the people, who are among the most helpful and intelligent that I’ve met, I’m not surprised that we’ve been called the
best company to work for
. I would love to continue working here, so I’m applying for a full-time position upon graduation. Wish me luck!
I am happy to be returning to
CMU
for my final year, but lectures would be a lot more fun if the professors took a page out of Google’s book and had Nerf fights. Just saying.
Until next time,
Jess
Fun Google fact: On the top floor of the Pittsburgh office, there’s a big cargo net overlooking the floor below that you can hang out on. I’ve brought my laptop there on more than a few afternoons.
Posted by Jessica Safir, University Programs
Announcing Google App Engine education awards
August 6, 2012
Cross-posted from the
Google App Engine Blog
In addition to the startups and businesses we frequently highlight on our blog, we have seen educational institutions and their students build amazing applications, using Google App Engine as a platform for teaching and groundbreaking research.
Earlier this year we
announced
funding for researchers looking to use App Engine for scientific discovery. Today we are introducing the Google App Engine Education Awards to foster continued innovation from educational institutions in areas outside of research. Through this program we are inviting faculty members, initially from the United States, to submit proposals for using App Engine for their course development, educational research, university tools or for student projects. A selection of the proposals we receive will receive $1,000 in App Engine credits to assist in making the proposal a reality.
App Engine allows you to build scalable applications using the same technology that powers Google’s global-scale web applications. With no hardware to setup, App Engine makes it simple to learn how to write a simple web application or to build an application that handles millions of hits a day. If you haven’t already tried App Engine, we encourage you to
download the SDK
, follow the
Getting Started Guide
and take advantage of our free tier to deploy your first application.
If you teach at an accredited college, university or community college in the United States, we encourage you to apply. You can submit a proposal by filling out
this form
. Applications must be received by midnight PST August 31, 2012.
- Posted by the Google App Engine Team
Our roots go global: Apply for a RISE Award today
August 2, 2012
Cross-posted from the
Official Google Blog
The application for the 2013
Google RISE
(Roots in Science and Engineering) Awards is now open. Given once a year, Google RISE Awards are designed to promote and support education initiatives in two key areas: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) and Computer Science (CS). Google grants awards of $5,000 - $25,000 USD to organizations around the world working with K-12 and university students in these fields.
This year, our community welcomed more than two dozen organizations from around the world, from Denmark to Uganda and California to Romania. The RISE grants have helped these groups to scale their reach by allowing for more scholarship recipients, to deepen their impact by providing hands on robotics kits, and to ultimately inspire their students by creating a community for CS outreach.
Now, the RISE Awards have expanded to include applicants from Latin America and the Asia Pacific region, bringing our total to six continents and 243 countries. All eligible nations are listed
on our website
.
The growth of technology is undoubtable, and the impact technology will have on our future is equally undeniable. We believe it’s our duty to support students who have the uncanny ability not only to consume technology, but also to create it. We believe that inspiring the next generation of computer scientists will enrich the lives of not only individual students, but also the communities and countries they live in.
Show us what you can do to get students excited about STEM and CS!
Submit your application
by September 30, 2012. Awardees will be announced by January 2013.
Posted by Roxana Shirkhoda, K-12 Education Outreach Specialist
Diary of a Summer Intern - Luke
August 1, 2012
The world renowned philosopher William Leonard Roberts II, also known as RICK RO$$ or Ricky Rozay, once eloquently noted, “I’m runnin the city like a new pair of Js”. Rozay must have exhausted his normal morning jog route in Florida-- why else would he have showed up at the YouTube office last week? That’s right, last Wednesday I met THE Rick Ross and after exchanging a few caveman grunts with the boss, I snagged a quick photo. There a lot of perks about working for YouTube, but getting the chance to meet celebrities has got to be top o’ da list.
These past few weeks have been a blur, a whirlwind of different objectives and activities. From helping manage the stream for Lollapalooza to building a program review survey, much of my time spent has been a healthy mix of individual and collaborative work. Some of my particular favorite moments have been attending meetings with the leaders of our team. Hearing these individuals speak about the future of our industry, let alone our company, is extremely eye-opening and often leaves me with a googelplex of questions. What’s even more amazing is that I’m not bound by a corporate glass ceiling that restricts me from asking all of these questions-- that wouldn’t be very Googley, would it? A few weeks ago I raised my hand while a Senior Financial Analyst was presenting and questioned a facet of our ROI model. Rather than shooting this wide-eyed intern down, he was intrigued and answered my question in much depth. After that meeting I sat at my desk and was quite in awe for a moment. I have a lot of respect for people who live up to their word, the ones who always do what they say they will. Google’s mission is “to the organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, and I couldn’t be happier that they apply this notion to their life at work.
- Luke
Fun Fact:
YouTube was allowed to attain much of its own culture when acquired by Google in 2005. While the YT office still boasts many of the same perks, there are small differences such as the office color scheme being red & black instead of the traditional Google primary colors.
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