Google Science Fair 2012 Award Gala Intro
3 Projects The Winners Of This Year’s Google Science Fair – 2012:
Photo: The Winners Of The 2012 Google Science Fair
- 13-14 Age Group: Jonah Kohn (USA)—“Good Vibrations: Improving the Music Experience for People with Hearing Loss Using Multi-Frequency Tactile Sound.” By creating a device that converts sound into tactile vibrations, Jonah’s project attempts to provide the hearing impaired with an improved experience of music.
- 15-16 Age Group: Iván Hervías Rodríguez, Marcos Ochoa and Sergio Pascual (Spain)—“La Vida Oculta del Agua (The Secret Life of Water).” Iván, Marcos and Sergio studied hidden microscopic life in fresh water, documenting the organisms that exist in a drop of water, and how those organisms influence our environment.
- 17-18 Age Group AND Grand Prize Winner: Brittany Wenger (USA)—“Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” Brittany’s project harnesses the power of the cloud to help doctors accurately diagnose breast cancer. Brittany built an application that compares individual test results to an extensive dataset stored in the cloud, allowing doctors to assess tumors using a minimally-invasive procedure.
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Share this PostGoogle announced the winners of the 2012 Google Science Fair. The Google Science Fair is an online science competition sponsored by Google, Lego, CERN, National Geographic and Scientific American.Google held the final round of its second annual international science fair on Monday morning, hosting 15 contestants from around the world between the ages of 13 and 18.
Many participants from United States, but there were also contestants present from India, Canada, Spain, the Ukraine, Swaziland, and Malta.The judges were impressed with the quality of all the projects this year.
