Google Science Fair charts the way forward for innovation
Over the years, there seems to be innovation stifling in many fields of learning. Which has been so due to lack of interest in investing. But the Google Science Fair is showing the way forward.
Last week Google kicked off its annual science fair project. The Google Science fair is encouraging innovation and tapping specialized ideas and skills from teens.
The fair will judge participants on eight core criteria. This will include the students' presentation, question, hypothesis, research, experiment, data, observation, and conclusion.
Significance of the Google Science Fair
This year's fair like those before, invites innovation but specifically challenges participants to go change the world. The preceding 4-time Google Science Fair held between 2011 and 2014 have revealed the brightest and greatest ideas. It has also inspired a common sense approach in developing talents right from their youth. The fair continues to harness innovative technology inputs to assist further generations.
The Google Science Fair is based on the understanding that when young folks take on experimental projects in their area of interest; they achieve progress and become help to society. A laboratory and test approach that the founders of Google would bet on at anytime.
The research project for posterity
In 1996, while Larry Page and Sergey Brin were PhD students at the Stanford University in California, they founded Google through a research project. Today, Google is at the forefront of an all important cyber industry. Over half of internet users trust Google products for all their searches, browsing and various services.
Reports show Google processes over 40, 000 queries every second on average. This translates to over 3.5 billion searches daily. The cyber giant also has the bragging rights of an annual 1.2 billion searches worldwide.
The determination of these two friends has helped the course of the world in becoming a global village. With the internet as a foundation, businesses and entrepreneurs that use Google services have achieved a lot in record time.
What happens when the Google Science Fair develops?
The Business Frontal is of the view a lot will happen should there be replicas of the Google Science Fair projects. Already there are many institutions that are also helping in this direction. Science Buddies is one outstanding organization devoted to this common course.
Sponsors like Cisco, Best Buy, Elmer’s and many others have graced the organisation's efforts. All these companies have purposed to help our youth to find and expand science ideas that could very well be the panacea to eminent problems. Over the last many years, there seems to be an innovation downturn in many fields of learning. Primarily due to lack of interest and the will to invest in activities of these kinds. But the Google Science Fair is showing the way forward.
Obviously, if our support systems, like industry experts, teachers, banks and others, could venture to answer this clarion call, the sky will not only be our limit. We will continue to break glass ceilings in innovations not only pertaining to science, but in all areas of life.
Enoch Antwi
Enoch Antwi is the managing editor at The Business Frontal. He worked as a business and an environmental journalist in the late 1990s with the Business and Financial Times. His passion is to provide on-demand valuable information and insights on business, entrepreneurship, leadership, innovative technologies, and principles for corporate success in today's business world.