Google Features Landroids in Documentary Film

Google, the Internet search engine company, recently hit the New Jersey highways, heading toward Livingston with big cameras. This time around, however, it was not just another drive around the town with street view cameras to make a new map. It was a video production team with a different mission: to film local residents who have made their names known internationally. But they weren't after famous singers or reality TV actors: they were coming to film the Landroids – a group of high-school teens who love science and robotics.

A team with the Livingston Robotics Club, the Landroids are primarily composed of ninth grade neighborhood friends who have become well known in the scientific community for their accomplishments in robotics. Google has sought out this group of robotics luminaries in hopes of inspiring young people around the world to join the Google Science Fair and to start exploring the fields of science.

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