Today Google announced that another milestone in forming YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 has been completed. After a lengthy period of online auditions and public votes professional jury of the contest picked 101 musicians from 30 countries of the world aged between 14 and 49 to be the members of the Youtube Symphony Orchestra 2011.
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Levi’s® kicks off the search for the second-ever ‘Levi’s® Girl,’ the online voice of Levi’s® women. Using its crowdsourcing Facebook app, users are able to submit videos documenting why they should be chosen as the new face and voice for Levi’s women in the digital space. In this specialized six-month assignment, the new ‘Levi’s Girl’ will allow the brand voice for women to be heard and channel the essence of ‘Shape What’s to Come,’ the brand’s global online community where millennial women around the world can connect with peers and mentors to shape their futures.
Today, on January 11, Google silently started one of its tremendous online projects that is sure to make a lot of buzz on the Inet in the near future. Google Science Fair, a new online competition, was announced earlier today. By running it, the Internet giant aims to discover young and promising scientific talents in all areas of science.
Electrolux is announcing a new round of its annual global competition, which is created to find and support the emerging talents in the area of the home appliances design. Electrolux Design Lab 2011 is encouraging industrial design students and recent graduates in this area to submit their works for a chance to a six-month paid internship plus prize money and have their developments on the avant garde of the global technical progress. This year, the contestants that have not started working in the field are asked to present solutions revolving around the ‘intelligent mobility’ theme and reflecting the company’s commitment to ecological technologies coupled with perfect design.
Ahead of Christmas, Levi’s is launching a competition, which echoes the major theme of the brand’s latest ‘Go forth‘ campaign and is supporting the idea of its latest project dedicated to craft, Levi’s Photo Workshop. The brand teamed up with the Hipstamatic community to kick off the ‘Holidays Captured’ contest, which revolves around sharing the festive spirit and taking hilarious digital stills, which encompass the vintage style of film photography.