Scientific American is a partner of the Google Science Fair, now in its sixth year, and sponsors The Scientific American Innovator Award. Winners of The Scientific American Innovator Award receive $15,000 in funding and a year’s worth of mentoring. In addition, the award winner will get to join an international cruise to a new continent, full of exploration. These prizes are intended to help the winner continue to develop their project and their education. Learn more.
Scientific American is a partner of the Google Science Fair, now in its sixth year, and sponsors The Scientific American Innovator Award. Winners of The Scientific American Innovator Award receive $15,000 in funding and a year’s worth of mentoring. In addition, the award winner will get to join an international cruise to a new continent, full of exploration. These prizes are intended to help the winner continue to develop their project and their education.
Scientific American has participated in the Google Science Fair since its inception
It’s no secret to Scientific American readers that we feel a special obligation to support the next generation of science enthusiasts, whom we hope to inspire both with our science coverage and our education initiatives, including the Scientific American Science in Action Award, powered by the Google Science Fair.
In 2012, the Scientific American Science in Action award became part of Google Science Fair. Last month, one of the judges for both, T.H. Culhane, traveled to Swaziland to work with our 2012 winners as well as another finalist and more; we had a Swaziland Hangout during the visit.
You know what’s awesome? Seeing a bunch of young people at work on changing the world to make it a better place for all. Today, I hosted a Google Science Fair Hangout On Air on Sustainability in Swaziland, and I got to have that privilege.
On August 6, the winner of the third annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award, powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
On August 6, the winner of the third annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award, powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
On August 6, the winner of the third annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
Scientists studying marine life now have a new tool in a next-generation atmospheric diving system called the Exosuit. The suit–which looks like something an astronaut would wear and is on display at the American Museum of Natural History until March 5–lets a diver descend to 1,000 feet at surface pressure for several hours.
We judges and others who work on the Google Science Fair believe that kids have the power to change the world. The $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award recognizes a particular type of changeone that focuses on making a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge.
Since I couldn’t bring you all with me to the amazing Google Science Fair Finalist Gala on 23 September, I’m posting the video here.
We had a fun first today for the 2013 Google Science Fair Hangouts On Air series of live chats with researchers around the world: with the aid of a smart phone propped up by two fossil bones, we streamed live from a Virginia swamp for a session called Paleo Quest: Venturing into the Unknown.
[caption id="attachment_1599" align="alignright" width="201" caption="Elif Bilgin, winner of the 2013 Science in Action award, a $50,000 prize sponsored by Scientific American as part of the Google Science Fair.
On June 27, the winner of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action Award , powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
On June 27, the winner of the second annual $50,000 Scientific American Science in Action award , powered by the Google Science Fair, will be announced.
This year's 15 finalists include projects from 12 countries - with four entries from India.
[caption id="attachment_1329" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Inspired by the 2012 Science in Action Award Winners, several community members in Lusoti, Swaziland, are growing different crops using a simplified hydroponics method.
PALO ALTO, CALIF. – Eighteen impressive teenagers from around the world are gathered in Mountain View, California awaiting the results of the annual Google Science Fair.
Expiring food, hanging gardens, the power of sepiolite, farmer software and plankton.
Enhancing desalination efficiency, a new language for the deaf and blind, and electricity from tomato juice.
Measuring Ultraviolet radiation, improving crop yield via electric currents and creating electricity from traffic.
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." — Ben Franklin Kids are born scientists. They ask great questions, and as Ben Franklin—one of the original “scientific Americans”—pointed out so eloquently, we should foster their efforts to learn the answers firsthand.
