DOODLE
4 GOOGLE: SEARCH ENGINE OFFERS CHILDREN CHANCE TO DESIGN THEIR OWN
INSPIRATIONAL LOGO
Winning drawing on theme of hope will feature on Google’s
homepage for a whole day in 2019
Google is offering US schoolchildren the chance to
design their own Doodle to
appear on its homepage.
The
Google Doodle sees the Silicon Valley search giant periodically replace its
familiar logo with a sketch, often animated, to celebrate a public figure on an
anniversary associated with them or their achievements.
Doing
so offers an opportunity to champion figures from the arts and sciences who
have distinguished themselves through innovation or by blazing a trail for
others and deserve to be better known.
The drawing links through to a wealth of information about its subject,
boosting demand for biographies of the likes of Mary
G Ross, Valdemar
Poulsen and Mestre
Bimba.This
year’s theme is “hope”, with entrants asked to submit a design based
on their personal wishes for the future.
“Classrooms
on Mars? Shoes that can fly? Food for everyone? A pill that cures everything?
Take your ideas and put them into your Doodle!” the company suggests. Kids who would like to get involved have until
8pm Pacific Time on 19 March 2019 to upload a .jpg or .png file of their
design, which can be made from any art materials they choose, with a
completed entry form and a short artist’s statement explaining the intention
behind their work. Full details of the competition and its rules are available
here. https://doodles.google.com/d4g/
The
best drawing will be chosen by a panel of judges including Mandy Manning,
2018’s National Teacher of the Year; Jimmy Fallon, host
of NBC’s The Tonight Show; and the
one and only Kermit the Frog, an
amphibian who needs no introduction.
The
trio will be judging the submissions based on artistic merit, application of
the theme and - somewhat crucially - the incorporation of all the
letters spelling out the word “Google”.
The winner’s work will be
displayed on Google.com for a day, while the artist will receive a $30,000
college scholarship, $50,000-worth of technology for their school, a trip to
Google’s headquarters in California, a selection of hardware and unspecified “fun
Googley swag”.
Good luck!
The Palm Springs Guru encourages children in Palm
Springs and across the Coachella Valley to participate in this Google contest.
Remember this; Kids who would like to get involved
have until 8pm Pacific Time on 19 March 2019
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