Archives Tag: Education

Maryland Education “Goes Google”

A quick snippet from the Google Corporate Blog, Today we’re happy to announce that The Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) will make Google Apps for Education available to 1.4 million students in the state. MEEC is comprised of the University System of Maryland, Maryland Higher Education Commission and Maryland Department of Education, and provides software [...]

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Google Believes in Education

As we have seen time and time again, Google is a strong supporter of education. Google cares so much about education that as part of the interviewing process to even be considered as a potential Google employee, they ask for your GPA records. Google recently announced the 2009 Google Fellowship recipients. After careful review, we [...]

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Announcing the 2009 Canada Anita Borg Scholars

Last year Google congratulated these amazing folks, and here we are in 2009 doing it once again. These people have proven serious value and contributed quite a bit. I want to recognize them here on Google Inside for their hard work. The 2009 Google Anita Borg Canada Scholarship Recipients Jenna Cameron – University Of Western [...]

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Google to Launch Student Connecting Program Called FUSE

Google is dedicated to the success of students, as we can clearly see through the Summer of Code program they launched a couple of years ago. Yesterday, Google announced the launch of a program called FUSE. Here is what they have to say about it. Program Goals The Google FUSE program aims to: Form a [...]

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More Value to Education

Starting at the end of March 2009, Google Enterprise is offering the educational sector some free storage. 10 gigabytes of free storage for Education in Google Apps. As of March 31st, we will be offering 10GB of Google Video free to every Google Education Edition domain. This will give each school the ability to stream [...]

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Google Encourages Education

Google is a company that loves education. They love the process of it, they love the teaching aspect of it, and they love the general educational aspect of it. This is something that cannot be achieved just by saying it. You cannot come out right and just say, “we love education,” because no one will [...]

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2008 Anita Borg Scholars Announced

Google has announced the winners for the 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship Foundation. Here’s a little excerpt from the Google blog about the foundation and what the recipients will receive. “The U.S. scholars and finalists recently visited the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA as part of the annual all-expenses-paid Google Scholars’ Retreat. Students attended technical workshops [...]

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University of Minnesota + Google Connection

As I was doing some research today, I entered in google.com/education to see if I could find some information on the research. To my surprise though, google.com/education actually forwards you to http://www.google.com/univ/education. That’s not the surprise though, the surprise is that it searches http://education.umn.edu. That leaves me to only one conclusion: that Google and the University of Minnesota have some sort of relationship. If you

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Google Encourages Excellence in Scholarship

Google started a scholarship fund last October which few of you know about. This past Tuesday, the names of the recipients were released. Olaniyi Bajulaiye, Benedict College Desmond Baldwin, Morehouse College Keitha Griffin, Alabama A&M University Jennifer Hairston, Wilberforce University Keith Morren, Florida Memorial University Derrick Nnaji, Prairie View A&M University Lawrence Secrease, Florida A&M University Shantavious Williams, Alabama A&M University The selected scholars will also

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The Anita Borg Scholarship Foundation by Google

Google has setup a scholarship in the name of Anita Borg. “As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to furthering Anita’s vision, we are pleased to announce the 2007 Google Anita Borg Scholarship, through which we hope to encourage women to excel in computing and technology and become active role models and leaders. ” This is a great opportunity for women around the world to get that “free

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