in Education

A New and Open World for Learning 1

Helping to create an open world of learning for open minds everywhere

In 2004, in their first annual Founders’ We hope this report helps you discover Letter, and new resources and better understand laid out our company’s commitment how tools can support learning to making the world a better place. and make your job a little easier. They explained that Google’s goal “is to develop services that significantly Thank you for all the work you do in improve the lives of as many people education, and for taking some of your as possible.” Eight years on, we are proud precious time to explore this document. to say that education remains one of the core pillars of this commitment.

Purpose of this document Jordan Lloyd Bookey - Head of K-12 We produced this booklet for educators Education Outreach and the people who support them, to share the educational activities we are passionate about and elaborate on why we are committed to this work. This is not a typical “annual report,” Cristin Frodella in that it is a document that we hope - Head of Education educators will use year round to spark Marketing new ideas and get inspiration.

Inside, we highlight the many accomplishments made by teachers, students, and organizations using Google Maggie Johnson resources. We think it’s important - Director of Education to showcase what we have seen work & University Relations in educational technology, as well as how we’ve made improvements based & the Google Education Team on feedback and reflection. January 2012 2 3

Index of programs Below is a list of the programs and resources explained in this booklet.

Making Learning Magical for Students About Google in Education Program or resource Audience category Geography Page Google Code-In 13 to 17 year-olds Global 11 Computing & Programming Experience 13 to 14 year-olds US 12 Education lies at the very core of our company’s mission “to organize LEAD for Computer Science Secondary and early college US 14 the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” App Inventor All Global 15 13 to 18 year-olds Global 16 YouTube Space Lab 14 to 18 year-olds Global 18 We know that leading-edge technologies Last year, Google was instrumental RISE Awards Nonprofit organizations Global 20 will continue to play a vital role in equipping in providing access, resources, Trailblazer Awards 16 to 19 year-olds Select Europe 21 future generations with the skills they need financial assistance, and tools to tens Doodle 4 Google Primary and secondary Global 22 to thrive in the workforce of tomorrow. of millions of students and teachers Summer of Code Students in higher education Global 26 Technology supports collaborative learning in communities worldwide. Computer Science Summer Institute Rising university CS students US or Canada 27 and teaching in communities around the Android Camp 1st or 2nd year university students US or Canada 28 world, so we invest heavily in education We hope that through our continued efforts, Scholarships, Internships, and initiatives and partnerships through our we can help raise the level of excellence, Ambassador Program Students in higher education Global 30 products, programs, and tools. awareness, and access in education for Online Marketing Challenge Students in higher education Global 34 future generations of students, teachers, Zeitgeist Young Minds 18 to 24 year-olds Global 35 Our education initiatives focus on three and innovators. key areas: Empowering Innovative Communities Program or resource Audience category Geography Page • Making learning magical for students Find out more about our Computer Science For High School (CS4HS) 4-year Universities Global 46 • Empowering innovative communities education work and access Google Teacher Academy Primary, secondary teachers Global 48 • Building a foundation of technology a digital copy of this booklet at: Geo Teachers Institute Primary, secondary teachers Global 49 Search Education & Exploring and access google.com/edu Computational Thinking All Global 50 Google Lit Trips All Global 52 Education Events All Global 54 Google Code University & Stanford Class All Global 57 Google Faculty Institute Teacher education faculty 58 Google Research Awards, Fellow Program, and Visiting Faculty Higher education faculty Global 60

Building a foundation of technology and access All the resources in this section are available online, and are open to all. 4 5

146 100,000,000+ By the numbers Countries in which Google Views of Khan Below are some of the impacts of Google in Education at the close of 2011. Apps for Education is used Academy video lessons on YouTube

500,000+ Videos in YouTube EDU 1,000,000,000+ Downloads of 45 States and provinces $20,000,000 with SketchUp Pro grants 15,000,000+ Funding awarded to Science, Volumes scanned in Google Tech, Eng & Math groups in 2011 Books (An estimated 10% of the books printed since 12,000+ the Gutenberg Bible!) Students visited by Googlers in the school visit program 5,097 10,000+ Alumni of the Summer Applications for the 2011 of Code program Google Science Fair 44, 100% School districts attending Google@School sessions, percent saying they would 2,400+ recommend the training Teachers reached through to others Computer Science for High 15,000,000+ School training in 2011 Google Apps for $8,800,000+ 107,000 Education Users Value of scholarships Doodle 4 Google granted to 2,100 competition entries university students $115,000,000 Funding to nonprofits and organizations in 2011 6 7

Making Learning Magical Pages 8 - 41 for Students

We want to spark students’ curiosity to discover and engage with a whole world of exciting subject matter— particularly in the fields of computer science, technology, science, and mathematics.

Empowering Innovative Pages 42 - 69 in Education Communities We develop, support, and challenge communities by partnering with innovators to create new approaches to training, curricula, and research. By connecting people and ideas, we hope educators everywhere can use technology to access the best in education.

Building a Foundation Pages 70 - 91 of Technology and Access

Through easy-to-use and easy-to-access products and tools, we encourage students and teachers to take full advantage of the web and collaborate in interactive learning environments. 8 9

Making Learning Magical Programs to inspire tomorrow’s digital leaders for Students We think students should not just Primary & Secondary be consumers of information, but • Google Code-In 11 co-creators of it. They should take • Computing & Programming an active role in developing the Experience (CAPE) 12 technology that will shape their futures. • LEAD Computer Science Institute 14 Learning should be magical for students • App Inventor 15 and they should be inspired to take • Google Science Fair 16 ownership of their learning. • YouTube Space Lab 18 • RISE & Trailblazer Awards 20 By creating hands-on programs, • Doodle 4 Google 22 scholarships and engaging curricula, we hope to inspire students to pursue Higher Education higher study—and to love the subjects • Summer of Code 26 of science, technology, engineering, • Computer Science Summer Institute 27 and mathematics (STEM). We aim • Android Camp 28 to create more effective educational • Scholarships 30 experiences that will guide the next • Summer internships 32 generation of digital leaders. • Ambassador program 33 • Online Marketing Challenge 34 • Zeitgeist Young Minds 35

Local Communities • Outreach to local schools 37 • Example: Data Center outreach 38 • Example: Outreach in 40 10 11

Making Learning Magical Learning to code while helping in Primary & Secondary Education open source organizations

Programs, competitions, awards, and tools for primary Google Code-In is a global contest that gets 13 to 17 year-old and secondary students students involved in development of open source software

Getting young students excited about and Through a variety of programs, competitions, Open source software The 10 participants with the most points involved in STEM (science, technology, awards, and tools, we hope to make STEM allows programmers at the end of the competition received a grand engineering, and mathematics) at the primary learning magical for primary and secondary anywhere to read, prize trip to Google headquarters in Mountain and secondary school level is critical—it’s one students (referred to as K-12 in the United redistribute, and View, California, where they spent the day of the keys to shifting them from being States) and to inspire the next generation modify software source code in order touring the campus, meeting Google a group that knows the basics of new of big ideas. to adapt it. The Google Code-In contest engineers, and enjoying other fun surprises. technology to a group that knows how to invites pre-university students from around harness technology to create and innovate. In this section, you can find out about some the world to create code for a variety of of Google in Education’s initiatives in primary open source organizations. In 2010, more “I’d like to personally thank you and and secondary school: than 361 students participated in 2,167 the other guys at Google for the coding tasks! program. It’s the first time I had someone • Google Code-In 11 ‘nagging me’ to sit and code something big for • Computing & Programming During the seven-week 2011 Code-In, an open source project (did small stuff before), Experience (CAPE) 12 participants worked on tasks for 18 different and I’m very proud with the result. I learned • LEAD Computer Science Institute 14 open source organizations. Challenges a lot, gained lots of experience, and had fun :)” • App Inventor 15 included document translations, marketing - Barak Itkin, student from 2010 Code-In • Google Science Fair 16 outreach, software coding, user experience • YouTube Space Lab 18 research, and a variety of other tasks related • RISE & Trailblazer Awards 20 to open source software development. • Doodle 4 Google 22 Learn more Participants earned points for each task For more information visit: they completed and were awarded prizes code.google.com/gci that included t-shirts, money, and 2011 Code-In overview video: certificates of accomplishment. goo.gl/nxUc8 12 13

Cultivating the next generation of computer scientists

The Computing and Programming Experience (CAPE) exposes early secondary school students to the endless possibilities of computer science

They learn about all aspects of CS—from its impact on society and culture to the role it plays in work and personal lives. In 2011, we held CAPE on five Google campuses, with 120 students attending. In total, the program Statistics show that if we want students has more than 220 alumni who are all deeply to love computer science, we have to plugged into the Alumni Program. expose them to it at an early age. In a recent survey of Google engineers, we found that 98 percent of Computer Science (CS) majors “At CAPE [my daughter] gained the had CS exposure prior to college, compared confidence and the insight to believe, with 45 percent of non-CS majors/ Left: Participants in the Computing and Programming Experience Inspired by CAPE is a related program in which she too could master the creative tools, (CAPE) at Google’s campus. Participants in a session. Center: we partner with other organizations to deliver non-technical Googlers. to be a builder and a creator – and not just Right: Participants in front of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. a ‘user’ of applications, games, and social similar content to a broader audience. Last year, CAPE’s goal is to inspire a future generation media...Google CAPE bridged that gap we piloted Inspired by CAPE with 155 students of creators in computing by bringing together and made the possibility of learning real at Howard University’s Middle School of Math and some of today’s brightest young students and for her. For the first time, she felt that the Science and through the Institute exposing them to the possibilities of mystery could be unraveled and that with of Technology’s Minority Introduction to information technology in career paths such time and effort, she too could be a creator Engineering and Science (MITES) program. as software engineering, biology, and fashion and a builder.” design. Students at CAPE experience daily life - CAPE 2011 Parent at Google and witness the amazing variety Learn more of CS applications that are developed here. For more about CAPE visit:

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Leveling the playing field Turning anyone into in computer science creators of web applications Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) opens up the App Inventor allows students to build their own Android possibilities of CS to high-achieving African American, Native American, apps without prior knowledge of computer programming and Hispanic high school students in the USA Students in Google In 2011, we were proud to support our The program offers two levels for different summer computer science “App Inventor has the potential long-time partner, Leadership Education age groups: programs such as CAPE to transform computer science and Development (LEAD), in the first and LEAD often say that education. It is the best tool I’ve seen successful LEAD Computer Science • Level 1—Hosted at and one of their favorite in terms of allowing ‘non-techies’ to Institute—a residential summer program that University of , this one-week experiences is learning how write computer programs, and I’ve been provides high-achieving African American, program exposes rising 9th grade students to use App Inventor. teaching computer science for 17 years!” is a programming platform Google developed Hispanic, and Native American students with to introductory concepts in CS. - Dave Wolber, CS Professor, University to let non-programmers easily create Android an opportunity to learn about, and be inspired of San Francisco to pursue, careers in CS. Together with LEAD, • Level 2—Hosted at University of California - apps (applications) using drag-and-drop and visual programming techniques. We estimate Google conceived of, designed, and launched Berkeley, and University of , this “The way App Inventor allows you App Inventor has reached 500,000 users the Institute, which supported 104 three-week program provides rising 10th and to learn programming I feel that across 500 educational institutions. participants nationwide in its inaugural year. 11th grade students with broad exposure it is much easier to understand and As the founding sponsor, we also provided to various topics in CS as well as deep succeed in computer science.” significant financial support so that some project-based learning. In 2011, we provided $1.5 million in funding - Student using App Inventor students are able to participate on a full to educational groups and organizations using or partial scholarship. App Inventor to support mobile learning. At the end of the year, we announced that Students live in college dorms, so they can App Inventor would become open sourced. Learn more attend CS classes and field trips during the A portion of the funding we provided went day and receive support from university to the establishment of the Center for Mobile App Inventor will be unavailable advisors—most of whom are African Learning at the Massachusetts Institute at the beginning of 2012 while American or Hispanic CS or engineering of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. The new improvements are make. Stay informed students. Students engage in project-based center will be actively engaged in studying of re-launch at the site below: team learning as well as lectures, and many and extending App Inventor as well appinventoredu.mit.edu visit Google offices for tours and talks to as designing new mobile technologies. See how one university is using experience life at a technology company. App Inventor: goo.gl/WlZ1S 16 17

“We left the Oval Office feeling like our individual futures were important to the Celebrating the curiosity of young nation’s future; like we could change the world.” scientists everywhere - Shree Bose, 2011 Grand Prize Winner

Top left: The 15 Finalists for the Google Science Fair 2011. The Google Science Fair is an international competition that Bottom left: Judge Dean Kamen questions Anand, a finalist, encourages young students to find answers to big questions about his project. Bottom right: Google Science Fair Winners Naomi Shah, Shree Bose, and through scientific inquiry and experimentation Lauren Hodge (L-R) meet U.S. President Obama in the Oval Office at the White House. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza, October 3, 2011)

In 2012, we In 2011 more than 10,000 students from 90 launched our countries applied to the Science Fair. Fifteen 2nd Google finalists flew to Google’s California offices for Science Fair in the weekend. Over the course of three days, partnership with the students shared their excitement for National Geographic, LEGO, Scientific science, and at the end, three winners were American, and CERN. The aims of the Google selected in each age category: Science Fair are to: • Shree Bose, 17-18, Fort Worth, , USA; • Inspire scientific exploration and Grand Prize Winner to encourage students to ask questions • Naomi Shah, 15-16, Portland, , USA and be curious • Lauren Hodge, 13-14, York, , USA • Celebrate young, scientific talent and create aspirational role models for After their sweep, the three young women For 2012, we have made innovations to the students everywhere spoke at the TEDx Women conference in Los competition, such as accepting project Learn more Angeles, gave interviews, and even met submissions in 13 languages, to encourage To apply to, or support Google • Unite students around the world President Obama and officials from the global participation and creating a Scientific Science Fair 2012, visit: in the quest for learning National Institute of Health. American ‘Science in Action’ prize for a project google.com/sciencefair that addresses a social, environmental, ethical, 2011 Finalist weekend video: goo.gl/QGGuw health, or welfare issue that makes a practical 2012 Launch video: goo.gl/02u5q difference to the lives of a group or community.

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Igniting students’ passion Support in Israel for physics and space Space Lab has taken off all over the world, from Australia to to Venezuela. Israel YouTube Space Lab is a competition to conduct a student science in particular has attracted a number of interested students and organizations that experiment 250 miles above the earth—while the whole world watches have helped make the contest a success. Google worked with partner organizations, In order to get students excited about science, In the YouTube Space Lab competition, including the Ramon Foundation—named Google has shared its passion for outer space 14 to 18 year-olds from around the world in honor of the late Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first through an innovative contest. proposed science experiments for space. astronaut, who perished aboard the space Teachers can access the Space Lab shuttle Columbia. To support interested YouTube channel to access informative students, Google invited 60 teenagers to the space-related videos. Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, one of the world’s leading research Globally recognized partners who share our institutions. Students were given access vision, such as Lenovo and Space Adventures to Weizmann labs, mentors, and equipment in cooperation with NASA, JAXA, and ESA, so that they could form and explore project helped us make YouTube Space Lab a reality. ideas with the most advanced scientific tools. At the end of the event, all the students made A global panel of distinguished experts and substantial progress with their projects, and scientists, including Professor Stephen four teams created and submitted their video Hawking, will help choose the winning on the spot with the help of a professional experiments. The winning experiments will be video team. carried out on the International Space Station The International Space Station with ATV-2 and Endeavour. and live streamed on YouTube—with the first ESA:NASA. broadcast to take place in 2012. Learn more Visit the YouTube Space Lab channel to find tons of informative and engaging videos about space and science, and to watch the experiments live from space! .com/spacelab SpaceLab launch video: goo.gl/5vn2d 20 21

Rewarding excellence in science, “RISE is a word that we like to toss technology, engineering, and math around a lot here, and it’s not just because we were the recipients of their Through the RISE and Trailblazer Awards, Google supports students, generous grant. We’re a team of high school and the organizations that work with them, to foster interest students trying to build a robot, [and RISE allowed] us to buy the raw material needed in science and engineering for our aspiring engineers to step up and be brilliant; to rise above the commonplace RISE supports innovative nonprofit to create something truly inspiring.” organizations in 125 countries, including - RISE Recipient The 20 winners of the second annual European Google Trailblazer the USA, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Awards at the winners event in Zurich, Switzerland. and Canada. Awards range from $10,000 to $25,000 in the and Canada and €500 to €10,000 elsewhere. To date, The aim of this distinction is to encourage Google has given more than $1 million student achievement and to let talented young to organizations through RISE in the USA, people experience life at Google so they can see Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. what a career in computer science looks like—focusing specifically on how computer Trailblazer Awards Seventy-five organizations have been science touches every discipline. RISE Awards granted RISE awards over the past The Trailblazer Awards recognize students three years, including: In 2011, winners toured Google’s Zurich office, aged 16-19 who exhibit exceptional potential Google Roots in Science and Engineering met Googlers, and learned about topics such in science and engineering. Each year, 20 (RISE) is an awards program that provides • USA & Canada: GUTS y Girls, Iridescent, as data centers, security, and testing. They also winners of competitions that take place funding to innovative organizations working Technology Access Foundation, American worked together in groups to develop and pitch in Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Romania, with primary, secondary, and university Indian Science & Engineering Society their own award-winning product. students in STEM enrichment programs. RISE Switzerland, and the U.K. are honored for is unique in that Google doesn’t just provide • Europe: Grlbotics (Switzerland), IT Science their work in national science, informatics, the winners with funding, but works to make Caravan Project (Romania), Women and engineering. Partnering with each Learn more. of these competitions, Google engineers sure they become part of a community in Technology (Poland) To find out about RISE visit: award “Trailblazer” status to the participants by sharing best practices among recipients. google.com/edu/rise who have demonstrated an outstanding use To find out about Trailblazer visit: of computing technology in their projects. goo.gl/glx7q 22 23

Envisioning the future in a doodle

Doodle 4 Google invites primary and secondary students to use their artistic talents to think big and redesign Google’s homepage logo for millions to see Space Life - Winner Feed The World - Finalist We believe kids that dream big about future What I’d like to do someday...”Is become an What I’d like to do someday...”Is feed people possibilities will aspire to great things as adults. Learn more astronaut and explore space life. I want to wear all over the world. Since nearly a billion people So in 2011 we invited US kids to tap their The 2012 Doodle 4 Google a space suit, fly in space, walk on the moon and worldwide are starving, I would like to see imaginations on the theme, “What I’d like to do competition opened in January. make friends with aliens in other planets.” no one ever go hungry again. someday…”. Whether finding a cure for cancer For information, go to: Name: Matteo Lopez Age: 7 Name: Cassidy Brown Age: 16 or taking a trip to the moon, it all started with google.com/doodle4google City, State: South San Francisco, California City, State: Climax, art supplies and some 8.5 x 11 inch paper. 2011 competition video: goo.gl/aPx96 More than 107,000 students sent in submissions in 2011. One talented artist, second grader Matteo Lopez, took home a $15,000 college scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for his school. In addition, his artwork appeared on the Google.com homepage. Stay tuned for news about Doodle 4 Google coming to other countries.

Become A Graphic Designer - Finalist The World Is My Canvas - Finalist “Seeing the new and innovative ways Google’s “The world is like a canvas where the people design team displays the logo has inspired create the view. The more original the person me as a young learner to express this year’s is, the more captivating the image. I want theme by incorporating certain elements to be an individual who inspires the personalities to convey my love of art. The pens and unique of people around the world. It would be amazing patterns are my fun, colorful representation to do this through my art.” of the world of graphic design.” Name: Hannah Ericsson Age: 11 Name: Victoria Ta Age: 14 City, State: Port , City, State: North Wales, Pennsylvania 24

Making Magic in Higher Education

Programs, experiences & competitions for university students

Our commitment to higher education focuses In this section, you’ll find information on a variety of technology and engineering on university programs, including: disciplines that we hope will stimulate interest in computer science—and in particular the Computer Science Programs rewarding field of open source development. • Summer of Code 26 • Computer Science Summer Institute 27 From Android Camp to software development • Android Camp 28 internships, our programs offer university • Scholarships 30 students opportunities for instruction, mentoring, and networking in a challenging Professional experiences learning environment that embraces all • Summer internships 32 students, including those in historically • Ambassador program 33 underrepresented communities. Competitions • Online Marketing Challenge 34 • Zeitgeist Young Minds 35 For more information on our work with university faculty and institutions see the next section of this booklet, Empowering Innovative Communities. 26 27

Igniting the spark in computer Computer Science Summer Institute Google started the Computer Science science students Summer Institute (CSSI) as a way to encourage enrollment and retention of CS students, In order to build a large pipeline of people working in computer particularly those historically science, particularly among those who have been historically underrepresented in the field. underrepresented in the field, we offer a series of programs and During CSSI, aspiring computer scientists internships starting before and during university come to Google headquarters in Mountain View, California for an all-expense-paid GSoC is truly a global program. In 2011, program that includes an interactive and we accepted 1,115 students from 68 collaborative CS curriculum, technical talks Google Summer of Code (GSoC), is a countries, and mentors from 55 countries. by Googlers, lectures by guests from the three-month program for university students Among the participants were 698 schools, technology industry, and social and that gives them a chance to work as part ranging from local junior colleges and professional networking activities with other of an open source project, getting real-world technical schools to leading global attendees. Students also enjoy a unique development experience and honing their research universities. residential experience while immersing engineering skills. GSoC was recently called themselves in daily life at the . by a Director of the Free Software Foundation Learn more as “the single largest corporate philanthropic “CSSI uprooted my doubts in the program in support of open source software, For more on Summer of Code, impact of computer science, and and a model to others.” visit: code.google.com/soc 2011 overview video: replaced it with concrete evidence of the positive influence it has on society. It spurred More than 5,000 students from 94 countries goo.gl/juwAc me to always expand upon my current have participated since the program began knowledge, and left me with a voracious in 2005. hunger for innovative technology that can revolutionize the world.“ During GSoC, Google acts as the “online matchmaker” between carefully selected - Gabe Lew, CSSI 2011 participant open source projects and students 18+ (oldest student to date is 56) from a wide variety of academic disciplines. Once they are Learn more accepted to a project, students work online For more on CSSI, visit: with their project-supplied mentor to define visit: google.com/intl/en/jobs/cssi the project, set milestones, and carry it out. CSSI 2011 photo gallery: Google Summer of Code mentors at the Mentor Summit goo.gl/dUSSY in October, 2011. Picture taken by Arthur Liu. 28 29

Android Camp

Android is the world’s most popular mobile Learn more platform, powering phones, tablets, and other Find out more about Android devices. In 2011, Google launched Android Camp at: Camp, inviting 25 freshman and sophomore students to an all-expense-paid weeklong google.com/jobs/students/ program at Google’s headquarters androidcamp in Mountain View, California.

The camp offers an interactive and collaborative curriculum that is a practical introduction to developing applications for Android, as well as a skill-building session for developing, testing, and publishing software for the platform. Students also explore the concepts behind Android, meet alumni from their schools and other Google engineers, and get an inside look at the culture and work of Google.

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Other scholarships in computer science Funding student scholarships and engineering

Google provides scholarships for students in engineering Google partners with a number of organizations to provide scholarships for and computer science undergraduate and graduate students in CS and engineering. Recipients receive By the end of 2011, Google had awarded The finalist weekends include workshops an academic scholarship and an invitation • Google Zawadi Africa Scholarship— more than $8.8 million in scholarship money and speakers, panels, breakout sessions, to attend the Annual Google Scholars’ Retreat Awarded to students in need who complete to upwards of 2,100 Google Scholars in fields and social activities. They also provide in Mountain View, California. Some of the degrees in computer science, computer such as engineering, computer science, and an opportunity for scholars to get to know scholarships include: engineering, and/or ICT at top universities leadership. Most Google scholarships are each other and share their experiences. in Kenya and South Africa. more than just funding. Scholars (recipients) • Google Hispanic College Fund also have many opportunities to network, Scholarship—Awarded to Hispanic students build skills, attend workshops, and further “Day three [of the Scholars’ Retreat] “For me, teaching is a great way studying computer science or computer their professional development. engineering in the USA. was highlighted by the scholars’ of inspiring women in computer science, poster session. It was our time to shine since they can see me lecturing and can see Here is a sampling of some of the scholarships and showcase our research. I saw very that a girl can do a PhD in computer science.” • Google-UNCF Scholarship—Awarded we fund: annually to a group of African American diverse projects within computer science - Melanie Ganz, 2010 winner, University of students in the USA pursuing and engineering, and this was another great Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Copenhagen, Denmark undergraduate and graduate degrees in chance to get to know each other’s passions computer science or computer engineering. in greater detail. Our feeling at the end of the The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship “This scholarship has truly made me more These “last dollar” scholarships are based retreat was unanimous: we had to stay in encourages women to excel in computing and aware of my abilities as a woman and also upon unmet financial need. touch. Thus, we had a brainstorming session technology and become active role models more confident in my work and in voicing my with scholars and organizers to find ways to and leaders. The scholarship is named after ideas...it has taught me that with an idea that • Google-American Indian Science and stay connected as we are spread across the Anita Borg, a leading computer researcher is voiced, one can build others to be better Engineering Society—Awarded to AISES continent. The Google Scholars’ Retreat is an who founded the Anita Borg Institute for people, and that has given me the desire to students currently pursuing undergraduate intelligent endeavour to bring technologically- Women and Technology. It is awarded to encourage women to continue in this field.” and graduate degrees in computer science driven students with various skills and female undergraduate and graduate students - Sinini Ncube, 2010 winner, Rhodes University, or computer engineering in the USA. expertise together.” in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the United Grahamstown, South Africa - Daisy Daivasagaya, 2011 Scholars’ States, and Canada studying computer • Google Lime Scholarship—Awarded to Retreat attendee science, computer engineering, or informatics. students with disabilities who are pursuing Winners receive a €7,000 scholarship and university degrees in the field of computer attend a conference at a European Google science in Canada and the US—in Learn more office to share ideas and experiences. partnership with Lime Connect, a nonprofit Asia Pacific scholarships video: that supports top talent with disabilities. goo.gl/FbDqx 32 33

Building students’ professional skills BOLD internships The Building Opportunities for Leadership Summer internships and Ambassador programs bridge the gap Development (BOLD) internship program is a global initiative designed to provide exposure between study and hands-on professional experience in the technology industry for students who are historically underrepresented in the field. Internships Google is invested in increasing the pipeline Students complete 11-week paid internships of future computer scientists and software in departments such as Sales and Operations, Google’s internship programs span a wide developers, particularly among historically Finance, Marketing, and People Operations breadth of disciplines, with opportunities underrepresented students. (Human Resources) and receive professional in engineering and non-engineering fields and personal development training. In 2011, Participants in the BOLD immersion program. (e.g. user experience, sales). Engineering Practicum Google had more than 280 BOLD interns across the globe. The Engineering Practicum is for students Through the Engineering Practicum, college Ambassadors learn about the latest in Google interested in computer science and freshmen and sophomores majoring technology, develop and run events on their engineering. Building Opportunities for in computer science, undertake 10-week “I cannot remember any 10 weeks that campuses, and support Google programs and Leadership Development (BOLD) internships projects with a team of Googlers and other have flown by as fast as the ones I just launches. Through this work they enhance benefit students in non-technical fields, Engineering Practicum interns, in Boston, spent at Google. I was fortunate to work their leadership, operations, marketing, and particularly those who are underrepresented MA; Mountain View, CA; New York, NY; with the most diverse team I could have entrepreneurial skills. In 2011, 140 students in the high-tech industry. and Kirkland (Seattle), WA. asked for. Because the five of us came in the United States earned a place in the from five countries and spoke more than Ambassador Program. Over the last year, the In 2011, we had more than 1,000 interns from eight languages combined, the variety of program also launched in Europe and the Asia 200 schools working at Google. These perspectives contributed to making the Pacific region, with plans to spread to participants were often part of other summer marketing project a success.” Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America soon. programs, like Computer Science Summer - Remo, 2011 Marketing intern, Dublin Institute, so they are able to build from these foundations. Learn more Ambassador Program For information about resources for students, including scholarships, The Google Ambassador Program allows internships, events, and programs, visit: university students around the world to google.com/students develop real-world professional skills while Video from a BOLD intern: bonding with peers. Ambassadors are goo.gl/qTzw1 nominated for roles that allow them to have a Video from an Engineering intern: Google Student Ambassadors participating in team-building exercises. Google experience while attending university. goo.gl/SBYWq 34 35

Zeitgeist Young Minds Ayna Agarwal - An avid entrepreneur, Ayna has advocated for collaborative public health For the first time in 2011, Google convened initiatives and youth entrepreneurship since Supporting future leaders a Young Minds competition, a showcase for age 10. In 2007, she founded her own 18 to 24 year-olds around the globe who are nonprofit, SPOT Globally, and has since worked in all roles in technology working to make a difference. Applicants were with young people in 12 developing countries asked to submit a YouTube video explaining to help homeless animals and people to avoid Google develops student potential in other areas of high-tech, through their work. Judges selected 12 winners hazardous health conditions. to attend Google Zeitgeist conferences in the the Online Marketing Challenge and Zeitgeist Young Minds Americas and Europe and take their place Eric Berdinis - To aid the 284 million people as tomorrow’s leaders alongside the greatest around the world who are blind or visually resources and support in fields In 2011, the Social Impact winner was a team minds of today. impaired, Eric created high-tech alternatives that benefit computer science indirectly, such from Vienna University of Economics and to current low-tech solutions such as Seeing as marketing and entrepreneurship. Business who created a campaign for Zeitgeist is an annual conference in which Eye dogs and walking canes. Together with TrashDesignManufaktur—a nonprofit that hundreds of the world’s leading thinkers come a friend, he built a prototype belt that is Online Marketing Challenge offers unemployed people the opportunity together to talk about the big issues affecting equipped with an infrared camera, six vibration to transform electronic waste and discarded everyday lives. Past speakers have included motors, processors, and batteries. When blind In the Online Marketing Challenge, professors machines into high-quality design objects. Bill Clinton, Queen Rania of Jordan, and users wear the belt, they can feel vibrations of higher education register student teams Stephen Hawking. across their stomachs and detect obstacles to develop an online advertising strategy for in their path. a real business or nonprofit organization. Learn more Winning projects ranged from educating Students are given a $250 budget from immigrant girls in Canada to promoting Google. Entries are judged by a panel of Find out more about the Internet literacy for urban youth and Learn more marketing experts with backgrounds ranging challenge at: preventing zoonotic diseases. Below are Get inspired by the amazing videos from academia and research to philanthropy a few of the winners, whose videos you google.com/onlinechallenge/ of the applicants at: and impact investing. index.html can watch online: youtube.com/ZeitgeistYoungMinds Every year, more than 50,000 students from 100+ countries compete. The 2011 winner was a global team from the University of Houston, who created a campaign for the Houston Symphony. Teams working with nonprofits are also eligible to receive the Social Impact Award, with prizes that include donations of $15,000 to the nonprofit partner.

Eric Berdinis and Ayna Agarwal were two of the Young Minds recognized in 2011. 36 37

Supporting Google’s local communities Volunteering with local schools

We make education outreach in the communities where we have Google brings its skills and passions to enhance learning at local schools offices a top priority Googlers at every office around the world By bringing thousands of volunteers into We think it’s important to support education In the next few pages, you can read about the spend time with their local schools. schools each year, Citizen Schools promotes in the areas where our employees and their work we do to make learning magical for Sometimes it takes the form of a specific student achievement and re-imagines families live and work. Google has more than students near our Google offices. This includes: event like a Career Day or guest lecture, but education in many communities. 60 offices in 30 countries. The Google often we partner with national organizations Community Affairs team coordinates local • Outreach to local schools 37 to provide regular outreach. For example, outreach and performs corporate citizenship • Example: Data Center outreach 38 during National Engineers Week in California, Learn more activities in the communities where we have • Example: Outreach in Japan 40 hundreds of Googlers across the country Visit this site to access some of the substantial offices and data centers. Our visited local classrooms, reaching thousands curriculum you can adapt for use community efforts include four areas of focus: of students. in school (e.g. the guide for how to build your own robot): • Supporting technology in education, “As a Googler and the proud parent with a particular focus on primary and citizenschools.org/apprenticeships/ of a child in the Mountain View secondary science and math education organization/google Whisman School District, I’m thrilled (STEM initiatives) about [the support we provide]. Mountain • Improving technology infrastructure View has been a great home for Google, for nonprofits, government, and and we’re pleased to be able to support small businesses our hometown.” • Maintaining online safety and privacy • Reducing carbon footprint and - Roni Zeiger, Chief Health Strategist supporting green initiatives and parent

In deciding which community support to Students that have participated in Google programs. provide, the Community Affairs team matches Across the United Googler passions and skills with educational States, we support priorities. Examples include school visits and work year-round to give guest lessons, outreach events such with area students via our partnership with as contests for local students, and funding for Middle and high school students from ‘iD Tech Camp’ visit the nonprofit Citizen Schools. Citizen Schools Google’s campus for a day of computer science inspiration. local nonprofits and schools. teams with middle schools to expand the learning day for children in low-income communities across the country. 38 39

Sharing our love of engineering with students

Googlers bring their skills and passion to education outreach events in our data center communities

Google has numerous data centers around The “Storming the Citadel” trebuchet the world, from Oregon to Finland to competition sparked a number of similar Singapore. Data centers are specialized hands-on community affairs activities in facilities filled with computers that run other data center communities. In the Dalles, services such as , , and Oregon region near the Columbia RIver . We’re committed to playing Gorge, we held a large robotics competition. a positive role in each of the communities In Lenoir, North Carolina, we worked in where we operate. We’re always on the partnership with Appalachian State University lookout for opportunities for Googlers to run a soapbox derby race with high school to share their expertise and time with physics students. Left: Aaron Lee and fellow Citadel engineering student Ben local students. Schwenk make modifications to their trebuchet. Center & Right: Student teams test their trebuchets. Images by Joel Berlinghieri. Googlers at the Berkeley County, South Learn more Carolina data center realized a great way to Want to see the trebuchets in action? match passions and skills with educational Check out this YouTube video: priorities was to hold a school event involving goo.gl/sFpxs engineering. They decided on a trebuchet Inspire girls to do engineering with Learn more (medieval catapult) competition. Teams this video: To find out more about Google’s of Googlers and local high school students goo.gl/avUQQ built trebuchets at The Citadel, the nearby data centers and with communities Military College of , and used in the USA, Hong Kong, Finland, Belgium, them to launch objects into a pond. and Singapore, visit:

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Boosting the passion of Japanese women in computer science

The GLIDE initiative encourages women in Japan to pursue computer science

Around the world, Google offices develop The participants at the kick-off event consisted programs tailored to the needs of their of former Google interns and the Anita Borg communities. One example is the Girls Scholarship finalists from Japan. Leading in Development and Engineering (GLIDE) program in our Tokyo office. Among the highlights was a welcome speech on the value of diversity by Google Japan’s The GLIDE community was launched with the engineering site director, Joseph Ternasky. mission of encouraging women in Japan to Other speakers included software engineer excel in computing and become active leaders Kaori Fujiwara, who talked about her in the field. The founders of GLIDE are women background in research and development, from all over Japan who work in computer and Google engineer Kinuko Yasuda, who science and have shown a deep passion for discussed her reasons for completing her PhD growing, promoting, and strengthening and offered advice to other female engineers female leadership in engineering. thinking about continuing their education as Masters or PhD students.

Learn more If you are interested in learning more about the GLIDE community, visit: goo.gl/4fSmm

Above: Googlers and GLIDErs during the panel discussion. Right: Founding GLIDErs at the kick-off event in Google’s Tokyo office. 42 43

Investing in educators, organizations, Empowering Innovative and established communities

Communities We believe that behind every successful Primary & Secondary student is an exceptional educator, • Computer Science For High and that exceptional educators come School (CS4HS) 46 from innovative and empowered • Live training for teachers: communities. Because of this, Google Google Teacher Academy & makes investing in educational Google Geo Institute 48 communities a top priority. • Online tools for teachers: Search tools for educators & Exploring We work with teachers and organizations Computational Thinking 50 to provide resources, expertise, training, • Google Lit Trips 52 and tools that help them understand • Education events 54 and integrate new technologies into their teaching. Higher Education • Curriculum: Google Code Our commitment goes beyond University & Stanford Artificial applications and products. In partnership Intelligence class 57 with educational organizations and • Google Faculty Institute 58 communities around the world, we • Faculty support: Google Research are on the ground and on the web, Awards, Google Fellowship supporting and training teachers Program, Visiting Faculty 60 through professional development programs, creating a standard of best Communities practices, and amplifying the work • Nonprofits around the world 63 of existing innovators. • 100Kin10 and Teach for America (USA) 64 • Khan Academy (Global) 66 • G-funze program (Kenya) 67 • Nonprofits (UK) 68 44 45

Empowering Primary & Secondary Educators

Training and resources for teachers who make a difference with technology

The most important factors in driving student We help primary and secondary educators learning are a great teacher in every connect and share with colleagues—to bring classroom and a great leader in every school. their ideas to a larger audience. The contents Research shows this is particularly the case of this section are: in mathematics and science. • Computer Science For High Many teachers are doing groundbreaking School (CS4HS) 46 work using technology to inspire a love of • Live training for teachers: learning and help their students be successful Google Teacher Academy & Google in the 21st century. But with increasingly Geo Institute 48 limited resources, innovative teachers aren’t • Online tools for teachers: always given the time or opportunity they Search tools for educators need to see their ideas brought to life and & Exploring Computational Thinking 50 shared with others. • Google Lit Trips 52 Photos: Participants and instructors at the Google • Education events 54 Teacher Academy in Seattle, July 2011.

Doodle: A on September 10, 2005, Doodle: A Google Doodle on November 20, 2009, honored honored Teachers Day in China. Teachers Day in Vietnam. 46 47

Supporting professional development for computer science teachers

The Computer Science for High Schools (CS4HS) program enables • National Computer Teachers Conference (Kenya)—Hosted by Strathmore “There is a widely-held belief in the universities to offer workshops and resources to local secondary University, the conference equipped 90 UK that schools are actually turning school teachers teachers and 15 principals/head teachers kids off to computer science by with practical skills to improve teaching, and emphasizing the use of computers CS4HS is an initiative Workshops incorporate informational talks by created a forum to exchange ideas and best for office functions. The animation sponsored by Google industry leaders and discussions on new and teaching practices. competition (we run) brings creative to promote Computer emerging CS curricula at the secondary level. computer use into the classroom and Science (CS) and We currently offer CS4HS grants in the USA, • Roberta Robotics Program (Switzerland— exposes students to aspects of computer computational thinking Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. At Ecole Polytechnique Federale de science such as file formats, music in secondary school curriculum. With a grant Lausanne, the program used robotics to encoding, and video technology” from Google’s Education Group, universities Examples of CS4HS initiatives include: help inspire teachers of girls ages 10-17. develop 2-3 day workshops for local computer - Participant in the Animation science teachers. Since its inception in 2009, • Carnegie Mellon University Workshops 11 Festival the program has grown sevenfold. (USA)—The Pennsylvania university gave We estimate that the 2011 CS4HS workshops a training workshop that allowed Learn more trained more than 2,400 teachers around participants to explore real-world examples the world, including more than 1,200 in the of computation in action, including new Find out how to apply for a CS4HS United States. tools for teaching students the principles grant, get workshop attendee and of program development and partner information, and learn computational thinking. about other helpful resources at: cs4hs.com • Animation 11 Festival and Inspiration Computer Science Day (UK)—Hosted by the University of Manchester in the UK, the two events were designed to excite teachers about computer science by using original computer animation. The university also created an online Animation Bank, with web “Hello, world.” resources for teachers and students.

The teachers trained at the University of CS4HS workshop. A participant at a CS4HS session at University of Alabama. 48 49

Developing educational communities through live training

Google invites innovative educators to apply for free trainings, Geo Teachers Institute like the Google Teacher Academy & Geo Teachers Institute The Geo Teachers Institute is a free professional development program designed Google works to develop online resources Prior alumni of the program teach their peers to train educators to get the most from and tools that help millions of educators about innovative instructional strategies and Google’s Geo technologies. In 2011, Google at a time. But we also recognize the value offer resources to share with colleagues, partnered with the National Geographic of getting educators together for face-to-face all while immersing themselves in Google’s Society and the University of Southern professional development—not only for the office environment. Lewiston-Auburn College to host two Geo benefit it provides during the sessions, Institutes, in Washington, D.C. and Maine, but because it forms the foundation To date, Google has held 13 Google Teacher respectively. At these training sessions, of a lasting community. Academies around the world. For each participants learned how to use Google Earth session, 50 educators are selected, including & SketchUp, but more importantly how Educators who have attended our in-person classroom teachers, curriculum specialists, to deploy them to inspire students. training, share resources, challenges, and and technology experts who serve the worlds’ ideas for months and years after the sessions primary and secondary teachers and The 2011 sessions were attended by about are over. Here’s a sampling of some students. There are now more than 600 150 primary and secondary educators and of these programs: Google Certified Teachers—all alumni taught by Google, and its partners. Both of the program. teachers and professors helped to lead the Google Teacher Academy training, so that peers could learn from peers. One instructor even brought five of his The Google Teacher Academy (GTA) is a free secondary students to act as tutors! professional development experience

designed to help primary and secondary Top: Participants at the Computer educators around the world get the most Learn more Teachers Conference in Kenya. from innovative technologies. An intensive Center: Participants at the Google Visit our education , click Teacher Academy in Sydney, Australia. two-day event, the GTA gives participants History teacher Mike Hathorn on ‘for teachers’ and go to the Bottom: hands-on experience with Google’s free of Hartford, helped teach section on professional development. his peers at the 2011 Geo Teachers products and other technologies. google.com/edu Institute in Lewiston, Maine. GTA Washington, DC video: goo.gl/DtwU4 GEO Teachers Institute video: goo.gl/aCava 50 51

Creating online teaching resources

Google creates webinars, lesson plans, and curricula to make online tools easy to deploy in the classroom Exploring Computational Thinking

Google is committed to promoting Google creates resources that educators can Whether they support elementary school Computational Thinking (CT) throughout the use to teach important skills, such as research, students or trained professionals, educators primary and secondary curriculum. CT uses computational thinking, and coding. We put can use our website to create lesson plans, problem-solving skills and techniques such these resources online so they can reach the presentations, and audit numerous recorded as pattern recognition and algorithm design largest possible audience. Below are many and live webinars for teaching all levels to help software engineers write programs of the resources available from Google. of search. that underlie the applications we use such Additionally, the google.com/edu website as search, email, and maps. The building offers lesson plans and videos from other blocks of these higher level skills are basics teachers that utilize tools such as Google Learn more like multiplying fractions and using surveys. Apps, Earth, and SketchUp. Visit the Google Search Education Evangelism website for more lesson Google’s Exploring Computational Search Education materials, webinars, and groups. Thinking website contains many lessons in Computational Thinking, as well as links to Experience shows us that many students sites.google.com/site/ more than 30 external resources, discussion are never taught how to search online. gwebsearcheducation Search skills presentation video: groups, and video lessons and tutorials. This means they do not know how to use some of the tools, and fall behind their peers. goo.gl/wywxd

Search lets you find the information you need, Learn more when you need it. Students need to know how a simple search works. And for more Access the computational specialized questions, a bit of instruction thinking resources at: on how to search can improve results. google.com/edu/ect Our Search Tools for Educators have evolved in the past year with more and higher quality sources than ever before.

Top: ‘Using ’ webinar presentation. Center: Advanced Search Squad lesson presentation. Bottom: Lesson Plan - Application and Modelling of Standard Deviation. 52 53

Bringing literature to life in three dimensions

Google Lit Trips help readers go “inside the story” to travel virtually alongside characters

In classrooms all around the world, teachers Jerome conceived of Google Lit Trips in 2007 are dreaming up ways to use Google tools as a way to honor a teacher who had made to improve their teaching and engage their a huge impact on his life. students more deeply. One teacher who has done just that is Jerome Burg, creator of Google Lit Trips. “The Google Lit Trips project is simply my personal act of kindness Google Lit Trips are free downloadable in gratitude for the life-changing that map the journeys of characters from experience I had in my senior English famous works of literature onto the surface teacher, Mr. Ferdie Kay’s class. We’ve Left: Google Lit Trips website homepage. The project has had much success. Today of Google Earth. At each location along the probably all had a teacher like Mr. Kay. Center: Jerome Burg, Creator of Google Lit Trips. Jerome supports educators through Google Lit journey, there are placemarks with pop-up He had a way of reaching our minds Right: A screenshot from the Google Lit Trip for the popular book, the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Trips, giving workshops, and contributing windows containing a variety of resources through our hearts. He knew how to build to the professional dialogue by bringing his including relevant media, thought provoking bridges between where we were and where innovation to educational communities discussion starters, and links to he was confident we could go via the around the world. supplementary information. Lit Trips allow wisdom of great literature.” students to feel as if they are looking through the windshield of that old jalopy in The Grapes of Wrath or waddling alongside Mr. and Mrs. Learn more Mallard’s duckling family in Make Way for Ducklings. Visit googlelittrips.org today to download literary trips for popular primary, secondary, and higher education books. You will need to install Google Earth by visiting earth.google.com 54 55

Connecting with innovators at large Higher Education events

education events • Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), March, 2011—In addition Google goes around the world to meet with innovators in the to sponsoring the event, we connected with education community at large education events 1,300 computer science (CS) secondary and higher education teachers and delivered two sessions on CS education. In addition to organizing Google education • BT Young Scientist in Ireland, January, sessions, we connect with educators, 2011—More than 30 Googlers from our • EduCause Annual Conference in Philadelphia, students, and nonprofits around the world Dublin office volunteered at the three-day October, 2011—We were a Platinum Sponsor at education conferences and events. event, which reached 38,000 students. We for this event, which included more than The support we give at these events includes conducted demonstrations and talked with 5,000 university professors and Chief speaking, funding, serving as judges, setting students about pursuing studies Information and Technology Officers. up technology lounges, hosting booths, and in technology. giving on-site training. In 2011, we attended • Celebration of Women in more than 65 major education events • National Science Teachers Association, Computing, November, 2011—We have worldwide, reaching approximately 150,000 March, 2011—More than 14,000 science supported this gathering of 4,000+ female people and contributing hundreds of teachers across the USA attended this CS students and professionals since thousands of dollars in sponsorships. event, the largest annual science teacher its inception. More than 70 Googlers More than 200 Googlers participated. gathering in the country. In addition to attended the most recent conference and Some examples are below: sponsoring part of the event, we hosted we supported the event by contributing sessions on how to make science magical. keynote speakers, panelists, and funding for Primary and secondary events CS high school teacher training. • BETT Show, January, 2012—One of the • International Society for Technology world’s largest conferences for education Education (ISTE), June 2011—At our 5th ISTE and technology. We participated in this conference, about 25% of the more event for the first time in 2012. than 15,000 primary and secondary educators at the conference stopped at the Google booth. In our teaching theater we did workshops on everything from Apps for Education to computational thinking and Search education.

Images from the Educause, ISTE & BETT conferences. 56 57

Providing higher education curriculum Empowering innovators for real-world application in higher education We support greater access to high-quality curriculum and instruction through new technologies and free resources Google helps university educators to create new approaches Google Code University Stanford University AI Class to teaching and learning Google Code University (GCU) is a website that A bold experiment in distributed education, Google started out as the graduate school provides sample course content and tutorials the Stanford University class, “Introduction research project of our founders, Larry Page for CS students and educators. GCU started to Artificial Intelligence,” was offered online and Sergey Brin, while they were working a few years ago when Google was developing to students worldwide from October 10– toward PhDs at Stanford University. Since internal training for its staff. Realizing that these December 18, 2011 at no charge. those humble beginnings, we’ve benefited resources would be valuable beyond Google, tremendously from research collaborations we decided to make the materials available Taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, and we’ve continued to maintain strong to people outside the company. two Directors of Research at Google, the relations with leading universities worldwide. curriculum drew from Stanford’s introductory GCU does not require registration and materials Artificial Intelligence course. Artificial In this section we highlight some of our are free. All the courses fall under the Creative Intelligence is the science of building higher education work across the areas Commons license, which means they are machines that do the right thing in complex, of curriculum, professional development, sharable, so educators can adapt them easily to uncertain environments. Robots, Google and funding for higher education researchers their own classes. The site includes tutorials and Goggles, self-driving cars, even software that and practitioners. This section includes: introductions that have few or no prerequisites, suggests music you might like to hear are courses on advanced topics, recorded video all examples of AI. • Curriculum: Google Code lectures and talks, and exercises. Example University & Stanford Artificial classes include ‘Google’s Python Class’ and Out of the 160,000 students who registered Intelligence class 57 ‘Javascript from the Ground Up.’ for the course, more than 20,000 completed • Google Faculty Institute 58 all the requirements. This class has inspired • Faculty support: Google Research Participants at the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) others to do similar open, online courses. Awards, Google Fellowship Program, Google Faculty Summit, 2011 (photo: Dawid Kuroczko). Learn more Visiting Faculty 60 Learn more about computer science and how to teach it at: code.google.com/edu 58 59

Offering professional development to help the teachers of tomorrow

The Google Faculty Institute aims to improve the teaching of technology in teacher preparation programs

In order to adapt classrooms for the 21st The Institute featured keynote addresses from century, teachers need to know how to use respected professors, case studies from technology effectively. To help tackle this distinguished secondary teachers from across issue, we hosted the inaugural Google Faculty California, hands-on technology workshops, Institute in Mountain View, California and panels with professionals in the in August 2011. The purpose of the three-day tech-education industry. On the last day of the institute was to ensure that teachers’ teachers Institute, faculty members submitted grant have the support they need to help them proposals to scale best practices outside adjust to a changing technology landscape. of the meeting. All of the proposals were funded by Google and are now in progress. The 39 faculty members hailed from 19 California State Universities (CSU), as well as Stanford and UC Berkeley. They were Learn more joined by secondary educators who teach Read more about the Google STEM. CSU programs credential 60 percent of Faculty Institute at: California’s teachers—or 10 percent of all USA primary and secondary teachers—and one goo.gl/tqYZU CSU campus alone can credential around 1,000 new teachers in a year.

The participants of the inaugural Google Faculty Institute. 60 61

Enhancing faculty research Visiting Faculty program This program enables leading academics to improve education to work at Google for periods of 6-12 months and take advantage of our challenging Google offers awards and programs tosupport innovation among research problems, our wealth of data, our education faculty computing infrastructure, and the ability to deploy research in a forum that will Google has created a number of programs be used by millions of people. that empower university faculty and researchers who prepare the teachers and leaders of Frank Stajano, Ph.D., was one of Google’s tomorrow. Our awards are made in areas in Visiting Faculty. Frank is a senior lecturer which we believe further research needs to be at the University of Cambridge, UK. His done, such as primary and secondary education. research interests revolve primarily around three interconnected themes: systems Google Research Awards program security, privacy in the electronic society, and ubiquitous computing. He is especially This program aims to identify and support interested in the human aspects of security world-class full-time faculty pursuing innovative and privacy. He explains the benefits research in areas relevant to Google’s mission. of his experience: We encourage award recipients to participate in Google’s own academic environment by “I like to work on practical problems giving talks, engaging in discussions with our that have a connection with the researchers, and sharing ideas and insights. real world. Even after I returned to university full-time, I still maintained connections with Google Fellowship program industry, mainly through consultancy jobs. I feel this helps keep my research honest, Through this work we recognize and support as it makes me work on problems that have graduate students doing exceptional work practical relevance.” in computer science. In 2012, this highly competitive program will award approximately

12 unique fellowships in categories such Top: Participants at the National Academy of Engineering’s US as speech technology, machine learning and “Frontiers of Engineering” Program, hosted by Google. Learn more Bottom: Participants get a preview of the Web-GL Digital Bookcase, Inaugural HBCU Faculty computer security—technologies that change A Chrome Experiment. Presenter at the EMEA Google Faculty Summit, 2011 (photo: Dawid the world. Summit video: Kuroczko). goo.gl/X4UcM 62 63

Empowering communities Nonprofits around the world

Google offers funding and partnership to nonprofit organizations and We boost the work of local nonprofits academic institutions around the world Google provides funding locally • —We awarded $24,000 to We contribute funding at a global level both The African Leadership Academy provides to organizations in the 60 locations where Chateau public schools and $20,000 to Prior through the company and Google.org, the merit scholarships to promising young we have offices. Our community outreach schools to build Mobile Labs. philanthropic arm of Google. We also give women across the continent, and the Afghan efforts have four areas of focus, two of which locally, supporting those working in Google Institute of Learning offers literacy classes to are in education: Supporting technology • Oregon—A whopping 603 people from a communities. The pages that follow contain women and girls in rural Afghanistan. Groups in education, with a particular focus on primary town of 12,000 came out to support and some examples of global and regional giving. like these will use our funds to educate more and secondary STEM education; and improving encourage the local high school robotics than 10,000 girls in developing countries. technology infrastructure for nonprofits, team competition we ran in the Dalles. This In 2011, Google gave more than $48 million government, and small businesses. community is home to Google’s first-ever in grants to nonprofit education institutions, In this section you can read about some of the in-house-created USA data center. with a large portion going toward STEM. organizations and communities we support: Some examples of nonprofit giving in 2011: Our support included Google.org funding for • New York—We held sessions for hundreds 15 highly effective STEM programs, including • Nonprofits around the world 63 • Howard University, Washington D.C.— of students from the Harlem Children’s Boston-based Citizen Schools and the D.C. • 100Kin10 and Teach for America (USA) 64 We provided funding to the Howard Zone summer program, during which Public Education Fund (both 100Kin10 • Khan Academy (Global) 66 University Engineering Middle School for we spoke about college, careers and partners), Generating Genius in the U.K. and • G-funze program (Kenya) 67 an on-site hands-on engineering lab. digital safety. Teach for All in over 20 countries worldwide. • Nonprofits (UK) 68 These organizations enrich the learning • Mountain View Whisman School District, • Israel—Our Google Israeli office supports experiences of underserved youth. In total, California—We gave a $1 million grant a number of local outreach efforts including these grants will provide enhanced STEM to the district for enhancing science and the Mind the (Gender) Gap program, which education for more than 3 million students. technology education. encourages female high school students to study computer science. Additionally, we supported girls’ education • Los Altos High Schools, California— in the developing world. Google believes that We awarded a $250,000 grant and • Japan—In addition to the GLIDE program by educating girls, we not only improve the 200 computers. (described on page 40), the Tokyo opportunities of the individual, but those office gives money to education groups of their whole families. • Austin, Texas—We provide funding to KIPP such as Supercon and PC Koshien, and also Austin and the Austin STEM School to offers scholarships and funding. support science and technology education. Learn more Students at the St Martin in the Fields School for Girls in London, Video on giving to girls’ education: UK, who are participants in the Generating Genius program, which goo.gl/Hh0gZ received funding from Google. 64 65

Supporting nonprofit organizations in the United States Through funding & partnership, Google magnifies the efforts of national nonprofit organizations such as100Kin10 and Teach for America

We provide funds to nonprofit organizations around the country to help amplify their impact and scale the important work they While Google supports nonprofits through are doing. Two prime examples of these the RISE Awards and community grants, partnerships are the 100Kin10 initiative and we also have a few key national nonprofit Teach for America. partnerships, including Teach for America (TFA). In addition to money (we awarded TFA $1 million in 2010), Google consults with TFA Left & Center: Teach for America teachers and some of their students. Right: Chancellor of the Washington DC Public Schools, on their People Operations strategy, funds Kaya Henderson, addressing the 10,000+ crowd at the Teach for ““Thank you so very much for such their social innovation and entrepreneurship America 20th Anniversary Summit, February 2011. a significant pledge, so early on in our This year, Google joined 100Kin10 initiatives, and hosts events such as the history. Your commitment and belief in (100Kin10.org) as a founding member. education technology workshop for 200 our efforts is an absolutely huge boost.” 100Kin10 is a collaborative movement created teachers held at the 20th Anniversary Summit. - Wendy Kopp, Founder and CEO, Teach in response to the United States’ need for for America and Teach for All 100,000 new, highly qualified STEM teachers We also offer a deferral program so that over the next 10 years. Google recognizes the students who are accepted to both TFA and critical importance of STEM teachers in Google are allowed to defer Google for two ensuring that every child has access to an years to complete their teaching commitment. Learn more excellent education. As of the end of 2011, teachforamerica.org US organizations can apply for the almost 100 member organizations have made Google for Nonprofits program and commitments to 100Kin10. Our part in this get access to exclusive products and effort includes partnering with the Broad resources to help expand impact. Institute to build a blueprint for a recognition google.com/nonprofits program for the top 5% of STEM teachers nationwide, and sharing talent management Video testimonials: practices to help find, grow, and retain goo.gl/PkWns outstanding STEM teachers. 100Kin10.org 66 67

Making a world-class education accessible to everyone around the world Training Kenya’s teachers Google supports the Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization whose to harness the power of Google goal is to provide a free education to anyone who wants it The G-funze program in Kenya provides hands-on technology training for educators who reach millions of students “This Google Award really allows us to take this to the next level,” explained Khan. In 2011, Google launched G-funze, an At the inaugural event, Google held an all-day “We’ll be able to build out a team and education initiative in Kenya. Literally meaning teacher workshop in Nairobi, drawing The Khan Academy is an innovative nonprofit internationalize the content so we start “to learn,” G-funze teaches secondary school teachers from 500 schools across the country. conceived by former hedge fund manager addressing the other 5 billion people teachers how to use Google tools to enhance The workshop focused on three tools: Google Sal Khan in 2004 as a way to tutor his cousin in the world.” learning in their classrooms. Search, Google Apps and Google Earth. remotely. Khan quickly realized his teaching skills could help many people, and he began Teachers were inspired to introduce sharing his lessons via YouTube for free. Learn more innovative teaching strategies in their classroom as they forged relationships with By the end of 2011, the Khan Academy had To watch Khan Academy lessons their counterparts from other schools. a library of 3,000+ videos and 250+ practice or learn more about bringing the exercises with a whopping 4,000,000 unique program to your classroom, visit : Through an online discussion forum, users per month. Thousands of classrooms khanacademy.org e-training, and other methods, participants are currently using Khan Academy within the were encouraged to stay connected to the school day. Teachers use the Khan Academy G-funze community. Google was later invited dashboard for goal setting and to track to train Kenya’s curriculum developers in the student progress in the lessons. core content of the workshop, which will reach more than 10 million students Google supports Khan in a number of ways. Group photo of the participants in the G-funze program. across Kenya. Khan Academy uses Google Apps for Nonprofits for its email and collaboration, and continues to use YouTube as its platform for sharing videos. Google also awarded the Khan Academy a $2 million prize at a key stage in its development.

Students in San Francisco doing Khan Academy lessons. 68 69

London Science Museum International Mathematical Olympiad Partnering to inspire students sciencemuseum.org.uk imo-official.org

in the United Kingdom Google provides financial support for The International Mathematical Olympiad a number of science museums around the (IMO) is the world championship of secondary world, including the London Science Museum. school mathematics, designed to test Google teams up with a number of organizations that across the A recent Google blog announcing the ingenuity and insight and tax the sharpest UK are working to make learning magical donations summed up why we do it: minds in the world. Held each July at a “Museums do more than entertain and different location, the 2011 IMO was in the One of Google’s largest offices Google’s funding in 2011 enabled Generating teach... Many Googlers cite their own Netherlands, and an IMO Foundation was set is in London, England. As part of our Genius to open up its program to include girls, experiences in science museums as a positive up in that country to administer donations continuing commitment to support the as well as increase the amount of computer influence on their decision to become to future IMOs. Google has given the local communities where we operate, science taught in its summer schools and engineers. By transforming the curious organization €1 million to support the next we collaborate with many organizations weekend workshops. learners of today into the innovators five IMOs. in the UK doing great work with students. of tomorrow, museums perpetuate both Teach First creativity and accomplishment.” Generating Genius teachfirst.org.uk generatinggenius.org.uk Google is a supporter of Teach First, Generating Genius works with education a nonprofit organization which addresses and industry to encourage, guide and inspire educational disadvantage by transforming gifted and talented young people from exceptional graduates into effective, underrepresented groups to pursue STEM inspirational teachers and studies and careers. Each year, Generating leaders in all fields. Genius selects 40 London school children from underprivileged backgrounds to enroll in the exclusive program and develop the technology skills needed to apply for the very best computer science schools. Google supports this organization financially and also volunteers its engineers as mentors and role models. Learn more STEM education giving video: Director of Generating Genius Tony Sewell (center) and two students goo.gl/1FDKi who have completed five years in the program and are now headed to elite universities to study computer science and physics. 70 71

Building a foundation Equipping teachers and learners of Technology and Access with the technology they need

We believe that collaboration in This section contains information learning is essential to the 21st century on the following technologies: classroom, and that technology can make collaboration happen more Hardware easily, for many more people, • 72 in a meaningful way. Find, Create & Share The Internet, personal computers, • Search 74 and technological innovations have • Research & 76 fundamentally changed the way people • 78 live, work and learn, but the impact of • Google Earth 80 these new technologies is not always • Google SketchUp 82 reflected in schools and systems. • YouTube 84 • Digital literacy 86 Google supports innovation in education systemically and at scale Communicate & Collaborate with content, coursework, and tools • Google Apps for Education 87 that are open, accessible, easily • Google+ 90 customized, and affordable to learners at all levels—so that students and teachers can find the information they need, when and where they need it, and use it safely and effectively. 72 73

Bringing the power of the web to classrooms

Chromebooks are fast, intuitive and easy-to-manage—bringing the “Of all of the benefits that I have power of the web to more students than ever before Not only do teachers who use the seen, I think student engagement Chromebooks cite improvements in student is the biggest. I see students who would In May 2011, Google introduced engagement and learning, but also in their not pick up a pencil or paper, who are Chromebooks—computers optimized for “We essentially give the own excitement for teaching. now completing assignments and doing all of the rich resources and tools available boxes to the students and within 20 fairly well. Students have a sense of on the web. Chromebooks extend the benefits minutes we have students, from fourth independence through the use of the of cloud computing, from cutting-edge grade to high school, who are on the Chromebooks. Recently, the students “This is my 15th year of teaching... innovation to real-time collaboration, to every Internet actually already responding were working on an extension project and the Chromebooks have made classroom desk, while avoiding the hassles to blog posts and writing and publishing from the book they were reading and me get up every day with more excitement associated with traditional PCs and tablets. within one class period. I’ve never seen every student in the class was actively than ever!!! After only a week and a half, I that before in my life.” As a result, teachers spend more time engaged with the Chromebooks.” can only imagine what doing this for - Rachel Wente-Chaney, CIO, Oregon High teaching and less time managing classroom - Aaron Slutsky, Director of Technology, a year will mean for my kids and me.” Desert Education Service District technology. And since the Chrome Operating North Carolina - Keri Radcliffe, 4th Grade Teacher System takes care of itself and the web-based Management Console eliminates the need for Jared Hamilton, technology coordinator at individualized setup and maintenance, Montgomery School in Pennsylvania, received Chromebooks for Education help schools put 40 Chromebooks for his middle schoolers, the Web into the hands of more students ages 11-14. As he sees it, “Chromebooks are and teachers. perfect for this age group because they spend most of their time on the web.” The students Learn more gravitated toward Chromebooks from the Visit the Chromebooks website: start because they found that they could get goo.gl/ZLUFD more done in less time, and turning in Chromebooks overview video: assignments to their teachers was easier. goo.gl/ou3VX “Once they start using the Chromebook, they don’t want to go back,” Hamilton says.

Left: Students at the KIPP Academy of Opportunity middle school in Los Angeles, California using Chromebooks in their history class. Right: Students at Grace Lutheran School in Oshkosh, using Chromebooks. 74 75

Time range

Looking for the most current results about a news story? The time ranges tool lets Unlocking the power searchers select the past 24 hours, week, Reading level month, year, or a custom range. This filter of Search allows you to look at an issue as it was being Looking for pages that are written at a more talked about on the web during a particular Search has become even more essential basic level? Reading level filters results based point in time. For example, what were views on the Mars Rover at the time it was launched to teaching and learning on difficulty. If you choose to “annotate results with reading levels,” you’ll start seeing a handy as compared to the week before it landed? bar graph showing the range of content for a When most people think of Google they think of Search. It’s at the particular topic at the top of the results page. core of everything we do, and the technology has fundamentally Learn more changed the way we live and learn. Search is constantly improving, To find out the latest new This way, whether looking for a basic with dozens of new innovations made every month. Last year saw features in Search visit: explanation of the ‘physics of frisbees’, for a incredible leaps in Search, both in terms of product development and google.com/insidesearch first science fair project, or designing radical educator tools that support people in learning search. To see the power of search, new saucers as part of a college aerospace watch this video: class, Google can help everyone find the When you search on Google, you now find a revised left toolbar that goo.gl/ZzLoZ right results. includes the category at the bottom entitled, “More search tools.” Clicking this link unlocks powerful tools for teachers and learners.

Translated foreign pages

Want to learn how people in another country view events? The translated foreign page feature lets you search for and view pages from other languages and countries, immediately translated into your language. This is a great tool for English and history classes, particularly lessons on points of view, bias, and the media. 76 77

Enhancing and improving Using tools to transform how educational research students and academia do research

Google’s research and engineering work continues Google Scholar makes a broad range of academic research accessible to inform and transform education to a global audience

As part of our mission to build the most We see our role in three areas: We want to make sure that people advanced and usable methods for everywhere can gain access to scholarly “Google Scholar is a democratizing information access, we support innovation Supporting wide access to resources research, no matter their geography tool for research. People only need in education technology through funding, We offer the opportunity for organizations or socio-economic level. Through Google an Internet connection. Doctors in Ghana advocacy, and technical expertise. While to conduct data mining for educational uses Scholar, we have worked with hundreds of can access the same research as doctors we do significant in-house research and and we encourage policies that support open publishers to make their content as accessible in highly developed countries.” as possible to the many millions of unique engineering, we also collaborate with education resources. - Darcy Dapra, Google Scholar Partner users we have per day across the globe. others, so that we can learn in ways that Manager and former graduate student collectively help Google achieve its goals. Making research easier In 2011, we invested $28 million We provide tools such as App Engine, which The Library Links program enables libraries in education-related research. offer people the ability to build and host to connect their holdings to Google Scholar, applications on Google’s infrastructure. allowing students to use the service to find Learn more Our research efforts are fully integrated, with scholarly materials that the libraries have To search academic articles activities located in almost every engineering Originating work of our own licensed. More than 4,000 libraries are by author, subject, publication, group, as well as in the research group. We undertake in-house research and currently participating. and more visit: At Google, research ideas can immediately engineering to create tools and techniques scholar.google.com influence engineering products, and product that enhance teaching and learning, including “Google is enormously popular – one How to use Google Scholar video: experience can directly motivate and shape Google Search innovations and increased of the great inventions of our age,” says goo.gl/Mtl7l our research agenda. accessibility features within Google Apps. Northwestern University Assistant Librarian Jeff Garrett. “With library Links, Google Scholar introduces a broad community to our scholarly resources, including people Learn more who might never have accessed these For more information on materials otherwise.” Google’s research efforts, visit:

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Searching the library without Google Books can unlock insights for people of all ages. One 4th grader named Lydia, aced the card catalog her book report thanks to Google Books. Lydia’s mom recounts her daughter’s tale:

Google Books allows educators and students to search and “Last year, when Lydia was in fourth grade, preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide her teacher assigned the students to write a short biography about an historical figure. In addition to writing a short report, the children were also assigned to orally present Ngram Viewer allows you to compare two it to the class, in costume, along with four or or more words in the texts of Google Books. five ‘relics’ related to the person. Lydia chose On the right, we compared the words “Beatles” to focus on First Lady Abigail Adams, wife to A search on Google Books is just like using and “Rolling Stones” to see the occurrence John Adams, the second president of the U.S. regular search. When we find a book with of these words in books over time. content that contains a match for your search In the course of her research, Lydia learned terms, we link to it in your results. When you We added a number of new features to the that John and Abigail corresponded search Google Books, you are searching Web Reader for Google eBooks in 2011 extensively with each other, since they were more than 15,000,000 volumes written including Define, Search and Translate text, frequently separated. Lydia thought it would in 400+ languages. Private Margin Notes and Highlighting. be fun to have one of these letters as one of her relics. At once, we thought of Google Books. Lydia and I went online and found the cover page and selected a few more pages In addition to increasing in a matter of moments.” the number of volumes Lydia, a 4th grader who used Google in 2011, Google Books has Books to excel in her history project. added many helpful Learn more features, including the Use Google Books and try ability to search for out the Ngram Viewer at: multiple books in a series, books.google.com to download citations Video on using Google Books from the texts, and in healthcare: to compare words in goo.gl/AcmQn books via Ngram Viewer. 80 81

Taking trips without leaving the classroom An image of shark tracking in Google Earth. Geo tools allow teachers and students to explore the Earth, Mars, the moon and the sky, using Google Earth and Google SketchUp “Our 3rd graders are researching and creating virtual tours of South Africa as part of their social studies curriculum. Google’s Geo tools (Google Maps with Street Although many people know about Google They are researching cities, weather, View, Google Earth, and Google SketchUp) Earth, we find that many teachers don’t know airports, travel routes ... points of interest, are popular with many educators—not just about all the useful tools within the application. etc. They are then [using Google Earth in science and geography, but across the Below are a few of the tools and features that to create] .kmz files plotting a virtual trip curriculum—because they engage students can enhance teaching: to South Africa, highlighting the World in discovering and envisioning their world. Cup locations.” • Historical imagery - You can now move back Google Earth and forth in time to show imagery from - Primary School Administrator Google Earth allows you to fly years and even decades past, revealing around Earth, the moon, Mars, changes over time. Try flying south from San and the sky to view satellite Francisco in Google Earth and turning on the imagery, terrain, and 3D buildings—from new time slider (select the “clock” icon in the Google Earth is empowering university-level By scanning 1,240 square kilometers of the galaxies and constellations in outer space toolbar) to witness the transformation educators as well. Professor Declan DePaor country using high-resolution imagery in to the canyons and trenches of the ocean of Silicon Valley from farming community of Old Dominion University in Virginia (USA) Google Earth, Dr. Kennedy and his colleague floor. In October 2011, Google announced to tech capital of the world. has created a set of resources to help Dr. Michael Bishop revealed 1,082 that Google Earth had been downloaded educators use Google Earth to teach Earth pendant-shaped ancient tombs and hundreds more than 1 billion times since it was first • Ocean - With Google Earth, you can Science, including content that brings to life of other ancient sites—all without introduced in 2005! There is an infinite drop below the surface of the ocean volcanoes, tectonic plates, and cut aways leaving home. universe of educational applications for and explore sea floor in 3D. While you’re of other planets. Google Earth. there, see videos and images of ocean life Professor David Kennedy of the University and logs of real ocean expeditions, from Learn more partners like National Geographic. You can of Western Australia was comfortably seated To learn more about Google even track the migration of animals like in his desk chair in Perth when he remotely Earth for Educators visit: sharks, tuna, and turtles. identified 1,977 potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia. sitescontent.google.com/google- earth-for-educators • Moon - Google Earth enables you Watch tutorial video 1 on Google to explore lunar imagery and access Earth for education: informational content such as Apollo landing goo.gl/CavUg sites, panoramic images shot by the

An image of the buildings in San Francisco from Google Earth. astronauts, and narrated tours. 82 83

Learn more Google SketchUp SketchUp for autism spectrum students Read more about Project Spectrum and download the manual of Google SketchUp is free, The materials they have created are now Google SketchUp is a great tool for individuals lesson plans at: powerful, intuitive 3D modeling being used by local 4th and 5th graders on the autism spectrum. Google’s SketchUp google.com/educators/spectrum.html software. Primary and in their classrooms. team partnered with experts including the Video on using SketchUp in secondary: secondary educators and Autism Society of America and the Lifelong goo.gl/i37uD students from all over the world use SketchUp Learning Lab at the University of “SketchUp has allowed us to put the Video on using SketchUp in university: to explore, explain, and present their ideas to launch Project Spectrum, which works small town of Hartford, VT literally goo.gl/qNCZL using 3D models. SketchUp is being used to provide people on the autism spectrum on the map. My students now read stories in classes from history, science, and with software and guidance to express their about our town and can appreciate them mathematics to pre-architecture creativity and develop life skills. One student, more because they appreciate the buildings Getting started and engineering. Meg, was able to complete a SketchUp floor in the town. Without the Google tools that plan of her dream house, an aquarium are available I could not imagine my class Both Google Earth and Google SketchUp have building with rooms made of water. Her being anywhere near as successful exclusively for educators. One of the “Google SketchUp has provided my brother, Casey, who also created a floor-plan as it has become.” most useful sections of the sites are the students with an opportunity to become says: “It would have been so cool if we knew tutorial videos, which educators and students designers and modelers of everything - Michael Hathorn, Hartford High School, about SketchUp earlier.” Casey even created can use to quickly become proficient with from simple chairs to more complex items Hartford, VT a model within the model, placing a second products and tools. like our school buildings or their own dream floor-plan on his table inside his dream house. house. Students take ownership of their Google Earth and Google SketchUp are work and meticulously create their designs offered at no charge. However, educators based upon realistic measurements and “SketchUp has allowed our family may wish to upgrade to the Pro versions appropriate detailing. The best part of the software. For teachers, Google offers is, because Google SketchUp is free, to journey with Rachel in her unique world in ways that we couldn’t before. Statewide License Grant programs for Earth all of my students have access to this and SketchUp Pro, which gives the software powerful software.” We are not gifted with the visual and spatial abilities that our AST kids have. This gift is to schools for free. As of the end of 2011, 38 - Ken Shelton, Math Teacher, Walter Reid US states have taken advantage of the Google The town of Hartford, Vermont, as sketched up by Mike a core strength and feature of autism, and Middle School, Los Angeles, California Hathorn’s digital history class. tools like SketchUp not only allow us to SketchUp Pro Statewide License Grant, journey with them, but offer life skills and as have two states in Australia, four Canadian potential career tracks to our children. We provinces, one UK county, and all of New Learn more Zealand. To find out whether your state When teachers speak about the impact of are so excited about Rachel’s new found already has a Pro license or how to apply Google Earth and Google SketchUp, they often To learn more about Google desire, direction, and where it will take her.” for one, visit the educator sites noted mention the way it helps students become SketchUp for Educators visit: - Mother of Rachel in this section. creators, not just consumers, of content. Mike sketchup.google.com/intl/en/ Hathorn, a history teacher in Vermont, uses industries/education.html SketchUp in his digital history class. 84 85

Harnessing the power of video for learning

YouTube videos enrich classroom instruction and engage students by bringing educational subjects to life YouTube.com/Teachers

On this site, educators can see how their NextUp “YouTube transforms my classroom colleagues are incorporating video into from a small room in a typical their lessons and join the YouTube Teachers elementary school enclosed by four walls, community. They can see how teachers YouTube has a number of education-specific to a global classroom with no walls that use YouTube videos to enrich their lessons, channels that teachers can use to complement spans throughout the entire universe. spark a conversation, and make theoretical classroom instruction, by bringing educational Thanks to YouTube I can pull up a video concepts come alive. topics to life. YouTube also has hundreds on just about any subject produced of education-specific partners and hundreds virtually anywhere in the world in an YouTube for Schools of thousands of videos to help educators instant. My students get to experience bring the power of video to their classrooms. what we are learning about instead of just YouTube for Schools is a network setting that reading about it in a textbook. They are school administrators can turn on to limit able to watch historical moments, see access to the educational content from YouTube.com/EDU Top: Students using YouTube in school. and hear experts discuss a subject, and YouTube EDU (rather than the entire site). Bottom: Some of the content available on YouTube even create and upload their own videos Teachers can choose from hundreds includes TED talks. YouTube EDU offers lessons from top teachers to share with the world.” of thousands of videos on YouTube EDU around the world, full courses from the world’s created by more than 600 partners such as leading universities, professional development - Karen Mensing, 2nd grade teacher, the Smithsonian, TED, Steve Spangler Science, material from fellow educators, and inspiring Sonoran Sky Elementary, and Numberphile. videos from global thought leaders. YouTube Phoenix, . “YouTube is an amazing resource EDU contains videos from more than 440 for Math and Language Arts, but universities around the world. These include my favorite application is to find Learn more some 250 full courses in which professors software tutorials for almost any have uploaded multiple class videos from To get your school signed up application. I have kids watch the their syllabus. to use YouTube for schools visit: tutorials instead of lecturing - they learn youtube.com/schools faster and retain more, plus they can YouTube for Schools overview video: rewatch as many times as they want.” goo.gl/tTUza - Jon Corippo, teacher 86 87

Fostering digital literacy Communicating and collaborating We support the teaching of digital literacy to help students easily (and at no charge) use the Internet safely and effectively Google Apps for Education features a suite of free email and We want to ensure all of our users—and families, and you can view advice from parents especially young people—have a safe who work at Google. We’ve also added collaboration tools for schools & universities experience on the web, and we think the best a section about managing geolocation features way to do this is by giving parents and on mobile phones. Google Apps for Education As Google Apps for Education evolves, students the resources, tools and information google.com/familysafety we continue to make them more effective and they need to achieve digital literacy and Google Apps for Education, a free version easy to use. Here are a few of improvements become smart decision-makers. Google for Educators of Google’s integrated web-based suite we made in 2011: This Digital Literacy Tour is designed of email, calendar and documents, are actively Google works to achieve safety in three ways: to spark discussion and allow students used by upwards of 15 million students, staff • June: Mailbox size—We expanded the size • Providing parents and teachers with tools to learn through hands-on and scenario and faculty at institutions in more than 146 of the Google Apps for Education mailboxes to help them choose what content their activities. On the site you’ll find a resource countries. The services that are offered from 7 to 25GB, still at no charge. children see online booklet for both educators and students that to nonprofit educational institutions include • Offering tips and advice to families about can be downloaded in PDF form, as well Gmail, Calendar, Docs (documents), Groups, • August: Offline—First we launched offline how to stay safe and private online as presentations to accompany the lesson and Sites. In addition to these core Gmail, and in the weeks that followed we • Supporting the work of child safety and animated videos to help frame the applications, users can also enable Google made offline Calendar and Docs available. organizations who can speak on issues conversation about digital literacy. Apps accounts to access Google services such Offline editing isn’t ready yet, but we know ranging from chat rooms to cyberbullying google.com/educators/digitalliteracy.html as Reader, , and , and it’s important to many of you, and we’re integrate with applications from the Education working hard to make it a reality. Beginning early in 2012, most safety resources Privacy Center category of the Google Apps Marketplace. and information will be consolidated onto one The central site on Google for all-things-privacy, • October: Presentations—We launched a comprehensive site called Good to Know this is where you’ll find our Privacy Policy and Improvements in 2011 new version of presentations with 50 new (google.com/goodtoknow). Until then, parents, information about our privacy tools. features, including improved transitions, teachers and students can also refer to these google.com/privacy Teachers use apps such as Gmail in ways that themes and drawings. websites for information about basic Internet help facilitate communication and learning, use and web safety tools Teach Parents Tech such as writing to a student’s parents in their • November: Suggested times—To make and activities: Google-inspired and Google-run, this site native language, or allowing student groups booking meetings easier and to save time, allows you to select any number of simple tech to work simultaneously on the same we’ve added a new ‘Suggested times’ Family Safety Center support videos to send to friends and family. document at the same time. feature to . At the center, you’ll find step-by-step Videos range from basic functions (how to cut instructions for using safety tools built into and paste) to more complex tasks such Google products and other best practices for as driving directions. teachparentstech.org 88 89

Google Apps for Primary and Positive feedback from teachers and Google Apps for Higher Education Secondary Education administrators tells us that Google Apps is making primary and secondary classrooms The number of schools using Google Apps for In addition to offering instructional benefits, From primary school to universities, Nairobi more collaborative and engaging: Higher Education is fast growing. By the end Google Apps for Education help universities to Arizona, Google Apps for Education has of 2011, 62 of the 100 universities on the US lower their costs in difficult financial times. transformed communication and organization News & World Report “Best Colleges” list were For example, Brown University reports a $1 systems in educational institutions. using Google Apps for Education. Recently, million annual savings in switching to Google “Google Apps has worked out better 12 higher education institutions in Spain Apps, while the University of States around the USA are providing access than I could have ever imagined. gathered for professional development and reports they saved $2 million to Google Apps for Education via state level We expected a more reliable, stable, and announced that they would be switching a year in estimated cost avoidance. agreements. In December 2011, the virus-free email. But we got more—a suite to Google Apps as their education State Board of Education announced they of integrated collaborative applications technology provider. would allow Utah students and teachers to that are being used by teachers and “Switching to Google Apps provided take advantage of Google Apps for Education. in our classrooms.” us with a way to significantly improve the level of service provided State Superintendent of Public Instruction - Scot Graden, Superintendent, Saline “Feedback from our students was the to our students and alumni. At the same Larry K. Shumway said, “Google Apps for Area Schools, Michigan deciding factor in our decision-making time, it reduced our IT operating costs and Education will allow greater collaboration process. We asked them what they wanted, the complexity of our infrastructure.” between students, teachers, parents, and ”In the course of less than 6 months and the vote came in resoundingly for schools to advance academic achievement.” Google Apps for Education has become the Google. We saw the switch as a great way – Ron Kraemer, Vice President for technological center of nearly all operations of combining institutional systems with Information Technologies and CIO, The Utah is the 9th US state to sign a state-level at The Watershed School. Students are using technology that the new generation of University of Notre Dame, USA agreement about the use of Google Apps Apps on a daily basis for their email, 98% of students was most familiar with.” in Education, with , Wisconsin, all document creation (by both students and and also doing so in 2011. faculty) is in , and all school - Professor Roger James, Director of Information Systems, University of administration occurs via Apps.” Learn more Westminster, England - Cory Pavicich, Director of Educational For support in launching Google Want to know more? Technologies, Watershed School Apps for Education, including For more information on in Boulder, Colorado ideas of how to use Apps in your Google Apps for Education, classrooms, check out the Guide including features and user stories, visit: to Going Google at: google.com/apps/edu eduguide.googleapps.com Teachers and administration University in Cairo talks about describing Google Apps: Google Apps: goo.gl/dB3JW goo.gl/mos1k 90 91

Video-conferencing at the next level

Discovering new tools for teaching Hangouts are live group video chats for up to 10 people—ideal for holding virtual and learning in Google+ office hours, or collaborating on a project when it’s not possible to physically meet in the Google+ provides new ways for teachers and learners to find and same room. Hangouts are also a great way share information and connect with others online to connect with colleagues, students and family. With Hangouts with extras, you can Students at Rice University in Texas use a Hangout. share the screen and collaborate real-time On June 28, 2011 Google introduced Google+, • Learn the latest in education—By adding a in Google Docs. an online tool that makes it easy to connect person to a Circle in Google+, you can see a whole group at once. All the students are on the web in real time. Below, we describe that person’s posts. For example, people Many educators use Google+ for office hours. experiencing a benefit from a meeting with some of the ways educators are using have created a Circle called “EdTech”, When Dr. Ari Kohen, a professor at the other students.” Google+ for teaching and learning. and in it included bloggers and practitioners University of -Lincoln, had who talk about the latest in educational to relocate from his home close to campus Google+ for Educators technologies. to a new house an hour away, he began to “I organized a Hangout on Google+ with use Google+ as another option for student friends from math class. In order to make • Organize your contacts and share • Get ideas for lessons—If you’re looking for office hours. “Anytime you use something sure I would stay on task, I made a Circle for appropriately—Circles make it easy for a lesson starter for class on supply and new you don’t know how it will work,” my math class friends, and set my availability people to organize their work and social demand, Google+ can perform a “supply he said. “But this worked great.” Kohen also to hang out to just them. We weren’t all on at the lives by sharing and streaming relevant demand” search that will yield current event used Hangouts to hold his review sessions same time, but that’s what’s cool about content with the right people. With Circles, news stories that illustrate it in practice, for the last round of exams. “I was able Hangouts-- people can mingle, just like at school. your “History department colleagues” don’t other people’s views on the topic, and to do more review sessions via Google+ Being able to watch YouTube lessons together have to get an update about your morning images that bring the concept to life. than I could have in person.” and talk about our interpretations of problem workout, and your “Running Club” doesn’t solving processes along with that of the video’s see your ideas on the best topics for In 2011 Dr Jeremy Littau, a journalism creator was awesome (and it will be even Western Civ class. professor at Lehigh University, introduced better when we aren’t working on homework!).” Learn more Hangout office hours as an option in his – Taylor Bell, student at Boise State student. To sign up for Google+ visit: Media and Society class. He recently google.com/+ welcomed a new baby and so Hangouts were Overview video: an effective time-management tool: goo.gl/xRRsZ “Two days a week I open a Hangout and have students pop in. During exam review, students come one at a time in my office but in Hangouts I can answer the questions for 92 93

Computing & Google Code-In Programming Experience App Inventor 13 to 17 year-olds 13 to 14 year-olds All Global US Global Page 11 Page 13 Page 15

Making Learning Magical for Students

On the following pages are programs and resources explained in Section 1. For more information on each, you can scan the QR code to access the web pages, Google Science Fair YouTube Space Lab RISE Awards or you can visit google.com/edu 13 to 18 year-olds 14 to 18 year-olds Nonprofit organizations Global Global Global Page 17 Page 19 Page 21 94 95

Online Marketing Trailblazer Awards Doodle 4 Google Summer of Code Challenge Zeitgeist Young Minds Citizen Schools 16 to 19 year-olds Primary and secondary University students Students in higher ed 18 to 24 year-olds USA Select Europe Global Global Global Global Primary and secondary Page 21 Page 22 Page 26 Page 34 Page 35 Page 37

Computer Science Android Camp Scholarships, Internships, Trebuchets in action Summer institute 1st or 2nd year and Ambassador Program Secondary Data Center outreach GLIDE community Rising university students university students Students in higher ed Berkeley County, Primary and secondary University students US or Canada US or Canada Global South Carolina Various Locations Japan Page 27 Page 28 Page 33 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 96 97

Google Faculty Institute 100Kin10 (USA) Teach for America (USA) Empowering Innovative California USA USA Page 58 Page 64 Page 64 Communities

On the following pages are programs and resources explained in Section 2. For more information on each, you can scan the QR code to access the web pages, or you can visit google.com/edu

Computer Science For Geo Teachers Institute High School (CS4HS) Primary, secondary Search Education Google for Nonprofits Nonprofits (UK) 4-year universities teachers All program (USA) Khan Academy - Generating Genius Global Global Global USA Global UK Page 47 Page 49 Page 50 Page 65 Page 66 Page 68

Exploring Computational Google Code Nonprofits (UK) Thinking Google Lit Trips University Nonprofits (UK) Nonprofits (UK) - International All All All - Teach First - London Science Museum Mathematical Olympiad Global Global Global UK UK Global Page 51 Page 53 Page 57 Page 68 Page 69 Page 69 98 99

Building a Foundation Digital literacy Chromebooks Project Spectrum YouTube for Schools - Family Safety Center of Technology and Access Page 72 Page 83 Page 85 Page 86

On the following pages are programs and resources explained in Section 3. For more information on each, you can scan the QR code to access the web pages, or you can visit google.com/edu

Digital literacy Digital literacy Digital literacy Search Research Google Scholar - Google for Educators - Privacy Center - Teach Parents Tech Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 86 Page 86 Page 86

Google Apps Google Apps for Education Google Books Google Earth Google SketchUp for Education - Guide to Going Google Google+ Page 79 Page 81 Page 82 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 100

Closing

While we are excited about the progress that Acknowledgements students, educators, and nonprofits have For more information, please visit made with the support of Google, we realize We would like to thank the hundreds that we are only just beginning to see what google.com/edu of Googlers and educators who contributed is possible. to this booklet. We give special thanks to Tia Lendo, Sarah Gross, Adam Grunewald Our commitment to the people, communities • If you want to share this report with and Rachel Durfee for their hard work and organizations that positively impact others, please send them to on this booklet. education is one that matters deeply to us. google.com/edu/purpose.html where they So we will keep building, iterating, and can view or download an electronic copy improving our programs and tools, and of the report and leave feedback for us. lending our support to educational communities around the world. • To find out more about specific programs in this report, scan the QR codes in the back None of this work would be possible without of this booklet on pages 92-99. you and the work you do to inspire students and enhance education through technology. We thank you and look forward to more collaboration in the coming years. google.com/edu

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