After getting involved with just about everything in tech, Google had announced it is delving into high school science with the first ever Google Science Fair, an online global science fair targeting students between the ages of 13 and 18. The fair is by CERN, LEGO, National Geographic, and Scientific American, with participant judges including Dean Kamen, Spencer Wells, Nobel Prize winner Kary Mullis, and the “father of the Internet” Vint Cerf.

“The Google Science Fair is an effort to help encourage students’ interest in science and technology. “Google’s origins are in scientific experimentation,” Google’s Tom Oliveri told ReadWriteWeb, noting that it was a hypothesis of two young computer science students back in 1996 that the information on the web could cataloged and searched.”

After participants register online, they can submit their project in the form of a Google Site. The registration is open until April 4 and the semi-finalists will be announced in early May. The prizes in turn include a trip to the Galapagos Islands with a National Geographic scientist, a trip to CERN and the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and an opportunity to participate in the development of a new LEGO robotics project.

Google has been involved in supporting scientific research for a few years now, involving participants from all age groups. That includes Google Demo Slam, which took pairs of user-submitted apps to face each other throughout the course of ’rounds’.