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Posted by Marcus Mitchell, Engineering
Director

We're always interested in supporting computer science
education, and in encouraging top talent from diverse backgrounds.
Which is why we've just sponsored the Sixth Annual href="http://www.spelman.edu/~sccso/" >Spelman
College Computer Science Olympiad for the second consecutive
year. In all, 16 teams from eight Historically Black Colleges &
Universities (HBCUs), or Association of Computer/Information
Sciences and Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions
(ADMI) participated.

These teams competed in five computer science-related events. One
of these was a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/gadgets/"
>Google Gadgets competition, where the
assignment was to build an interactive, creative and useful Google
Gadget. Students brought their semi-completed gadgets and got
troubleshooting advice and tips at a hack session, where Googlers
and students worked together into the night to perfect them. The
following day, each team presented their gadget to our panel of
three judges (myself and 2 other Googlers).

We chose first, second and third place winners, whose gadgets will
be uploaded to the href="http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open"
>iGoogle Directory soon:

First place: Morehouse College Team 2 (Lawrence Forrester,
Kevin Walton, Mark Slade, Michael Davis) href="http://kevin.ultinets.net/gadget/hopstop/hopstop.xml"
>

Second place: Old Dominion University Monarchs (Duc Nguyen,
Cesar Barbieri, Darrin Lee, Nicole Jackson)

Third place: Spelman College YOMamaBoards (Jonecia Keels,
Jazmine Miller, Paige McReynolds, Arielle Baine)

It was inspiring to see the energy, enthusiasm, and skill of these
future computer scientists — our congratulations to all the teams
that participated.

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First-place
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Posted by Sam Schillace, Engineering
Director

We're pleased to announce that we've acquired the assets of
Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide
presentations.

You've heard us talk a lot about using the web to improve group
collaboration and information sharing. These days, when you create
a document — whether it's a text document, a spreadsheet, or a
presentation — you usually want to share it, collect feedback, or
communicate about it in some way. We on the href="http://docs.google.com/" >Google Docs &
Spreadsheets team focus on making this experience easier and
more powerful for you. In particular, we're working to href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html" >add
presentation-sharing capabilities to Google Docs &
Spreadsheets, and we're excited about the addition of
Zenter's technology and team to that effort.

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