{"id":5889,"date":"2015-02-24T19:24:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/07\/24\/google-science-fair-winners\/"},"modified":"2015-02-24T14:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:39:10","slug":"not-your-average-science-fair-google-announces-winners-of-2012-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindpowertimes.com\/?p=5889","title":{"rendered":"Not Your Average Science Fair: Google Announces Winners of 2012 Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"microcontent\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzA0L2RhL25vdHlvdXJhdmVyLmJFby5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw\/47f6bca8\/b27\/not-your-average-science-fair-google-announces-winners-of-2012-contest-95b1aad8df.jpg\" alt=\"Not-your-average-science-fair-google-announces-winners-of-2012-contest-95b1aad8df\" data-fragment=\"lead-image\" data-image=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzA0L2RhL25vdHlvdXJhdmVyLmJFby5qcGcKcAl0aHVtYgk5NTB4NTM0IwplCWpwZw\/47f6bca8\/b27\/not-your-average-science-fair-google-announces-winners-of-2012-contest-95b1aad8df.jpg\" data-micro=\"1\" data-url=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you hear \u201cscience fair,&#8221; do homemade volcanoes and paper mache solar systems come to mind?<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/index.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Google Science Fair<\/a> is a different animal entirely.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s second annual science fair was held yesterday at Google HQ in Mountain View, Calif. Students from around the world were invited to submit their science projects digitally, and 15 outstanding entries were selected based on criteria ranging from hypotheses to experiment design and data collection.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists presented their projects yesterday, with winners selected in each of three age groups \u2014 13-14, 15-16 and 17-18 \u2014 as well as a grand prize winner.<\/p>\n<p>This year, one of Google\u2019s science fair partners, <em>Scientific American<\/em> magazine, also selected a project to receive the Science in Action award. According to <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/judging.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/judging.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2019s competition details<\/a>, this award was reserved for an entrant whose project addressed a social, environmental or health issue and could make a practical difference.<\/p>\n<p>The winners were announced in a livestream last night at 8:30 PST.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf31.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf31.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bohnke Mahlalela and Sakhiwe Shongwe (Swaziland)<\/a> were given the Science in Action award for their entry titled \u201cUnique Simplified Hydroponic For Swaziland Poor Subsistence Farmers.\u201d The boys developed a Unique Simplified Hydroponics Method (USHM) that utilizes local waste organic matter to aid in crop growth. Both of the boys\u2019s families are already using the method successfully.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first time either boy had left his village in Swaziland. The Google Chromebooks each received during the finalist round of the competition literally tripled the amount of computers that had previously existed in their village \u2014 one.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf63.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf63.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jonah Kohn (USA)<\/a> took the prize for the 13-14 group with his project \u201cGood Vibrations: Improving the Music Experience For People with Hearing Loss Using Multi-Frequency Tactile Sound.\u201d Kohn created a device that converts sound into tactile vibrations.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf45.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf45.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iv\u00e1n Herv\u00edas Rodr\u00edguez, Marcos Ochoa and Sergio Pascual (Spain)<\/a> won the 15-16 category with their study of the microscopic life in fresh water, entitled \u201cLa Vida Oculta del Agua (The Secret Life of Water).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it was 17-year-old <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf83.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/projects\/gsf83.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Wenger (USA)<\/a> who stole the show, winning both her age category and the grand prize with her project \u201cGlobal Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.\u201d Wenger developed an application that compares individual test results to a data-set stored in the cloud, allowing doctors to diagnose\/asses tumors using a minimally-invasive procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Wenger score an internship with one of Google\u2019s partner organizations, but she also took home $50,000 in scholarship money from Google and a 10-day trip to the Galapagos Islands furnished by <em>National Geographic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in entering Google Science Fair 2013 can register <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/signup2013.html');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/events\/sciencefair\/signup2013.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to receive information.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/mashable.com\/2012\/07\/24\/google-science-fair-winners\/');\"  href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/07\/24\/google-science-fair-winners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/07\/24\/google-science-fair-winners\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear \u201cscience fair,&#8221; do homemade volcanoes and paper mache solar systems come to mind? 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Students from around the world were invited to submit their science projects digitally, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,82,16,46,228,127,229,563,44,20],"tags":[213,482,206,483],"class_list":["post-5889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-culture","category-design","category-entertainment","category-environment","category-inspiring","category-international","category-life-stratiegies","category-tech","category-technology","tag-google","tag-science-fair","tag-tech","tag-winners"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Not Your Average Science Fair: Google Announces Winners of 2012 Contest - The Mind Power Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/themindpowertimes.com\/?p=5889\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/themindpowertimes.com\/?p=5889\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/themindpowertimes.com\/?p=5889\",\"name\":\"Not Your Average Science Fair: Google Announces Winners of 2012 Contest - 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