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Google Games: A level up in competition
June 12, 2012
What do you get when you combine Googlers, technical students, trivia, puzzles, Legos, coding problems and a healthy dose of competition? None other than Google Games.
Google Games Chicago
Google Games brings students from all over the U.S. to local Google offices and nearby universities for a bit of Googley culture and fun. This year, Google Games took place in our Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Cambridge, Mountain View, and Washington DC office, and also on the University of Michigan campus, bringing together over 900 students from 26 universities.
Google Games 2012 was video game themed and in true video game fashion, teams completed tasks to earn stars. The day began with trivia questions ranging from “National Metric Day falls on this date each year,”
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and “This animal is the mascot of the Go programming language.”
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After students completed the trivia, they tackled six puzzles based on our engineers’ favorite video games. During lunch, students got a chance to mingle with other students and Googlers, and also check out some of the office space. To combat the infamous after lunch food coma, we challenged teams to build the largest bridge (2*length+height) with a pound of random Lego bricks. Of course, things got a little tense when teams finished building and had to wait patiently as Googlers walked around to measure bridges, being careful not to knock anything over. We wrapped up the day with a few tough coding challenges, created with the help of our
Code Jam
engineers.
Google Games Cambridge
At the end of the day, stars were tallied and each location crowned a Google Games winning team. Congratulations to this year’s victors:
Seattle - Team Name (UW)
University of Michigan - Smash the Stack
Atlanta - Trashball Champions (Georgia Tech)
Chicago - Infinite Loop (UIUC)
New York - Blogorithms (Princeton)
Los Angeles - Team Beavers (Caltech)
Cambridge - Kirkland G-21 (Harvard)
Pittsburgh - Mystery Inc. (CMU)
Mountain View - 4↑↑3 (UC Berkeley)
Washington DC - Terps (UMD)
Take a look at
more photos
from this year's competition, and don't forget to add
Google Students
to your circles on Google+ to learn more about next year’s competition.
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