NOTICE: GOOGLE SCIENCE FAIR WON'T BE HAPPENING THIS YEAR

[aaron...@gmail.com]

Hello, I am a student who was waiting to apply for the google science fair this year.

As no information was being updated on the website, I became increasingly concerned.

From a known alias of mine working in Google, the person responsible for the Google Science Fair has been contacted and a response came. A part of the response is shown below:

"Thank you for reaching out about Google Science Fair.  At this time, we don’t have plans to open another round of submissions.  Moving forward, the brand education team is going to increasingly focus on Computer Science education programs—especially our work to close equity gaps in CS and expand access to all students.   

We are not planning to make a public statement about our plans though we will communicate to past prize winners and our partners.   If you’ve been asked for an update by external organizations/individuals, you can share this simple update: Google is not planning to run the Google Science Fair this coming year."

As you can see from above, it seems like the science fair won't be happening this year. I've found this extremely infuriating and frustrating. I reasonably believe that Google didn't react to this situation properly as they are still not sending out a notification that it won't be happening in the website.

Please spread the word to all the other applicants. Thank you.

[mariafernandac...@gmail.com]

Ohh thats so sad

[greatscie...@gmail.com]

R.I.P

[artemno...@gmail.com]

Hi!
In your comment, you mention that a person responsible for GSF was contacted. If you have any sources of communication with Google representatives, may I ask you to pass the information about regional finalists of GSF 2018 to them? It is especially hard to study without a PC during the coronavirus pandemic. It has been a year since GSF was supposed to deliver a Chromebook to regional finalists as a prize, but we cannot get in touch with anyone from the organizing committee. If you could re-send my letter to any person responsible for GSF, many regional finalists would greatly appreciate your help!

Thank you!