The ever-familiar search engine Google has always been featuring 'Doodles' at its front page that changes every single day to commemorate a person, place or event for several years. Now, Google is opening its front page to a lucky child. It has recently opened its annual Doodle for Google competition in the United States and is now accepting entries from students in grades K to 12, giving them a chance to win a US$30,000 scholarship.
With the theme, "What Makes Me... Me," Google is giving its home page as the canvas for students to doodle on and make their artsy masterpieces with any material they want to showcase their talent, "uniqueness for a day". The winning artwork for the contest will then be featured in the company's present search engine's front page for a day aside from the college scholarship that will be awarded.
With kids having all kinds of fun, quirky and thoughtful things that make them unique, they can explore the activity and make an artwork out of it -- transforming something from "so meek and simple to gigantic and magical". They can use whatever kind of materials they want to make their doodles. Crayons, clay, graphic design, food and video games are some of the examples given.
Google is inviting children in grades K-12 to join in the "2015 Doodle 4 Google" contest. As for the rules, the doodles must incorporate the letters that spell Google. As a reward for winning the contest, Google will award a total of US$30,000 college scholarship plus the feature on the search engine's home page, a trip to Google, and some Google devices. A US$50,000 grant will also be awarded to the winner's school. Kids can send in their entries from Oct. 19 to Dec. 7 of this year, and will be judged by popular figures such as Stephen Curry, Julie Bowen, Yvonne Cagle, B.J. Novak, Alex Morgan and Glen Keane.
