Kids get a peak inside Google at I/O developer conference

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The final day of the Google I/O Developers Conference brought thousands of techies to San Francisco's Moscone

Center, along with some people who would normally be in school.

Something was a little backward at Friday's conference. While engineers and designers played on see-saws, kids engineered and designed a moon rover.

"It's inspired by Google's Lunar X PRIZE Project," said Champika Fernando, a Google product manager.

Alongside the techies who came from all over to Google's I/O Developer Conference, I/O Youth gave local kids a look inside.

"See all the Google people and be able to talk with them and learn with them," said Luca Snoey, a seventh grade student.

It's a chance to learn skills that might come in handy even if they never build apps or websites.

"What we're doing is showing kids you can do animation, you can control robotics, you can do so many things using code, which is why you might actually want to get into it," said Maddy Maxey, of Made With Code.

With all this space exploration, there is one sort of explorer who wasn't at Google I/O and that's those early adopters known as Google Glass explorers.

"We were actually expecting maybe a new version of Google Glass, but no, we didn't see a single mention of Google Glass. And again there haven't been many people here wearing Google Glass," said Tim Stevens, editor at large of CNET.com.

Instead, Google focused on watches and what theirs can do that Apple's can't. Google's screens will recognize an emoji drawn with a finger.

With coaching from Pixar, using only a tablet, kids made a short animated film using Google's app Toontastic.

"I thought you could only do it on computers or just in a studio, but this is really cool," said 12-year-old Kimora Oliver.

Because now, even art is all a754859bout technology.

"We think that coding is really the language of tomorrow," said Pavni Biwanji, Google's vice-president of engineering.