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Learn Celebrating Our History, Accomplishments As Well As Community During Dark History Month

If you lot walk downwards the halls of our New York office, you lot mightiness acquire something most the history of technology. This month, our walls showcase the contributions of Black inventors inwards science, technology, engineering as well as mathematics inwards celebration of Black History Month.

Black History Month, which is every Feb inwards the U.S., provides us amongst an chance to recognize the history as well as diverseness of the communities where nosotros operate. Yesterday, our midwestern Googlers listened to the music of Michigan’s alone Black as well as Latino Orchestra as well as side past times side week, Dr. Clarence Jones volition last speaking to our Bay-area Googlers most writing Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. This is merely a little sampling of the dozens of celebrations Googlers are hosting all calendar month long.


Black History Month too gives us a bespeak chances to celebrate the diverseness of our Googlers as well as highlight some ways nosotros run amongst underrepresented groups. One of my favorite examples is the storey of the Black Googlers Network (BGN). In June 2006, a grouping of Googlers looking to connect as well as foster community amid Black colleagues got together to practise an internal networking group. The Black Googlers Network started every bit a mailing list, but speedily grew into much more. Passionate most growing the side past times side generation of Black leaders inwards the engineering industry, BGN partnered amongst our academy programs squad to strengthen our relationships amongst Historically Black Colleges as well as Universities (HBCUs). As a result, we’ve non alone increased our recruiting presence at these schools, but are straight off too partnering amongst HBCU faculty to prepare STEM (science, technology, engineering as well as math) curriculum, encouraging to a greater extent than students to pursue degrees inwards these areas as well as prepare them for careers inwards technology.

Members of our BGN are too shaping the agency nosotros practise business. In May of 2009, 2 recent grads inwards our Ann Arbor share saw an opportunity, as well as what started every bit an persuasion bounced roughly betwixt 2 twenty-somethings turned into an official Google program. The persuasion was to assistance minority-owned little businesses grow their online presence and, merely a few months later, the persuasion became a reality when Accelerate amongst Google officially launched. The plan has since grown into a squad of several dozen Googlers, all working to acquire small, minority-owned businesses online as well as helping those trouble concern owners connect amongst 1 another.

Our passionate Googlers, similar those behind BGN as well as Accelerate, permit us to amend connect amongst the Black community as well as assistance to practise an inclusive as well as various workplace. As nosotros throw dozens of celebrations roughly the province inwards our Atlanta, Chicago, Ann Arbor, New York, Los Angeles as well as Mountain View offices to grade Black History Month, nosotros invite you lot to bring together us past times next our Google for Students as well as Life at Google pages on Google+, where we’ll last hosting photos, recaps as well as hangouts throughout the month.