- …Figure out a cure for cancer
- …Build a movie theater on the moon
- …Be an underwater explorer
Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would …"
We're looking forward to the kids' answers too. Gather those art supplies and some 8.5" x 11"paper and encourage your students to enrich us all with their creative visions for what they would do in the world, if they could do anything.
This year, a group of "Expert Jurors", well-known illustrators, cartoonists and animators from organizations like The Sesame Street Workshop, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, The Charles Shulz/Peanuts Museum and Pixar Animation Studios, will be helping us select the 40 finalist doodles as well as attending our awards ceremony to personally meet our winners.
Registration closes at 11:59:59 p.m. Pacific Time (PT) on March 17, 2010, and entries are due by March 31, 2010 no later than 11:59:59 P.M. Pacific Time (PT). The winning doodle will be featured on our Google.com homepage on May 27, 2010.
Judging and Prizes
Key Dates
School Registration Deadline
March 17, 2010
Early Bird Submissions -
Win Netbook Computers
March 10, 2010
Doodle Entry Deadline
March 31, 2010
State Finalists and Regional Winners Notified
May 17, 2010
Online Public Vote
May 17-24, 2010
Awards Ceremony and National Winners Announced
May 26, 2010
Winning Doodle on the Google Homepage
May 27, 2010
Grade Groups
The Doodle 4 Google competition is open to all U.S. residents between the ages of 5 and 18 who attend elementary and secondary schools (i.e. grades K-12). In the U.S., doodles will be judged in the following brackets:
- Grades K - 3
- Grades 4 - 6
- Grades 7 - 9
- Grades 10 - 12
All students attending homeschool are also eligible to participate.
Judging Regions
The competition will run across 10 regions:
Judging Process
400 State Finalists
Up to 400 doodles from across the country will be chosen by a panel of independent "Expert Jurors" and Google employees based on which doodles they feel best represent the "If I Could Do Anything, I Would…" theme. In each state, 2 doodles will be selected in each grade group, meaning that each grade group and each state will be equally represented. Entries from the District of Columbia will be judged along with entries from Maryland.
40 Regional Finalists
Our "Expert Jurors" will choose 40 top doodles as Regional Finalists. In each of the ten Regions, each grade group will have one winner. These Regional Finalists will be displayed in a gallery on the Google.com website. The U.S. public will then vote for the doodles they believe best capture the theme "If I Could Do Anything, I Would…".
4 National Finalists
An awards ceremony for the 40 Regional Finalists will be held at the Google New York office on May 26, 2010. On that day we will announce the four National Finalists chosen by the U.S. public (1 per grade group).
1 National Winner
Finally, one of the four National Finalists will be awarded "National Winner of Doodle 4 Google" and the national winner's doodle will 'go live' on the Google homepage for 24 hours.
Prizes
National Winner - College Scholarship
The National Winner will win a $15,000 college scholarship to be used at the school of his/her choice, a trip to the Google New York office for an event on May 26, 2010, a laptop computer, a Wacom digital design tablet, and a t-shirt printed with his/her doodle on it. We'll also award the winner's school a $25,000 technology grant towards the establishment/improvement of a computer lab.
Three National Finalists - Laptop Computers
Each of the other three National Finalists will win a trip to the Google New York office for an event on May 26, 2010, a laptop computer, a Wacom digital design tablet, and a t-shirt printed with their doodle on it.
Smithsonian Exhibit and Trip to New York
Each of the other 40 Regional Finalists will win a trip to the Google New York office for an event on May 26, 2010 and a t-shirt printed with their doodles on it. All 40 Regional Finalists will also have their doodle displayed in a public exhibit at the Smithsonian's, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum for 6 weeks after the announcement event.
State Finalists - Doodles Published on the Web site
Each of the other 400 State Finalists will receive a "Doodle 4 Google" official winner's certificate and will be featured on the Doodle 4 Google contest web site.
Extra Credit - Technology Booster Awards
This year, we are giving out eight (8) Technology Booster awards for schools who submit their doodles by March 10, 2010. The awards consist of 20 netbook computers for public or private schools or 2 netbook computers for homeschools who submit the maximum amount of doodles for their school by March 10, 2010 (doodles must be received by this date).
Schools who are eligible to win this award are those who submit either six (6) doodles if they are a public or private school or two (2) doodles if they are a homeschool. These schools must also have a student selected as one of the 400 State Finalists. We will also be looking at the highest cumulative quality scores of the State Finalists doodles as part of the awards criteria. Awards will be announced on May 17, 2010 when we post the 400 State Winners.
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