Since we’re about to embark on a holiday weekend, I thought I’d post something light and pleasant today.
This week, Google announced (and displayed) the winner of their Doodle 4 Google competition. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a competition where K-12 students compete to reinvent Google’s homepage with their own Google Doodle. Of course, there’s a theme, and this year’s theme was “What I wish for the world.” That’s sort of a large order, but kids are rarely daunted and they came out with some fantastic drawings.
The national winner was from Christin Engelberth a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. She titled her doodle “A New Beginning” to express her wish that “out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more.” Her Google Doodle was displayed on the Google home page all day yesterday.
There were three other national finalists, including two from the Cincinnati area. The four finalists were treated to a trip to New York City and a special event at the Smithsonian’s, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, where the doodles will be on display through July 5. How cool is that? These four kids are part of their own art exhibit!
As the national winner, Christin received a $15,000 college scholarship, a trip to the Google New York Office, a laptop computer, and a t-shirt printed with her doodle. Her junior high school is also getting a $25,000 technology grant towards the establishment/improvement of a computer lab. The other three finalists weren’t left out in the cold, however. They got everything Christin did, except for the scholarship and the grant. But still – a trip to NYC and a laptop aren’t bad at all!
Now, aren’t those happy thoughts to carry you into your holiday weekend?
Cheers!
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