NEW YORK CITY—The Google Science Fair is a bit different from the science fairs of yesteryear. For one thing, it's open to students around the world, whose entries will be submitted online as videos or slide shows. And the prizes are a tad snazzier than a blue ribbon.
The Science Fair kicked off with a launch event at Google's offices here on January 11. The winner of the contest, which is open to entrants age 13 to 18, will receive, among other goodies, a $50,000 scholarship, a 10-day trip to the Galápagos Islands (where Charles Darwin did some of his most important fieldwork) and a virtual internship at Lego or a three-day site visit to CERN, Google or Scientific American.
Entries to the science fair can be submitted until April 4. After multiple rounds of judging to winnow the field down to semifinalists and then finalists, the winner of the contest—and all the prizes that entails—will be announced in July.
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