Google Engineering Week Volunteers, River North, Chicago

On Thursday Google celebrated Engineering Week in all of our offices by inviting school kids to visit for the day. In Chicago we hosted 4th – 7th graders from a school on the South Side. The kids selected were part of a group who is interested in computers and the internet. I’m not sure if it was a class or an after school club or what, but they were kids who some day may choose a career in IT or engineering or some sort of tech industry. We taught the kids about Google and our history, did some techy learning activities, toured the office, took them to lunch in our cafeteria and talked to them about careers in engineering.

I only volunteered to be a lunch buddy and take some of the kids to lunch, but I was having so much fun I ended up volunteering and photographing most of the day. I took many, many photos but they’re for internal use and to send to the kids and I don’t feel comfortable posting them online, so here’s a photo of me with some of the other volunteers that day.