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Last week we were thrilled to welcome fifty students from North America -- from the University of Alberta to Morehouse College to the American University of Puerto Rico -- in New York City for the first-ever Google FUSE. Aimed at connecting top rising sophomores from underrepesented backgrounds in CS, this retreat brought together some of the best and brightest students for three days of making new connections, creating new ideas, and getting to know Google.

What better way to help these talented students to build their network than by bringing them together to solve some interesting challenges? After bonding over a game of computer science trivia and designing web and mobile ready applications, these budding computer scientists have both virtual and real worlds at their fingertips.

We think it's safe to say that this pilot year went well, and that we look forward to fielding applications for FUSE 2010 soon enough!

Posted by the FUSE team (Holly Benson, Zach Geller, Lindsey Gilligan, Hanah Kim)