Doodle for Google is an annual art competition open to students in grades K-12, held by Google in various countries. Students are invited to create their own Google Doodle based on a specific theme, and the winning Doodle will be featured on the local Google homepage as a Doodle. The competition aims to encourage creativity and imagination among students, and to give them an opportunity to display their own Doodle creativity on Google.com and win some awesome prizes while doing it.
The competition is judged based on artistic merit, creativity, and theme communication. Doodles are grouped and judged by five grade groups, and finalists are judged on a state-by-state basis. The best Doodle from each of the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands is selected as the State and Territory winner, and the Guest Judges and Google Doodlers select the five National Finalists. A panel of Google employees then chooses one of the five National Finalists and announces the National Winner in June.
The first Google "doodle" was in 1998 when Sergey Brin and Lawrence E. Page were attending the Burning Man Festival, to show that they were out of the office and unable to help if the systems were to crash. Since then, Google has celebrated various events and anniversaries with doodles, and the doodles have evolved from simple static designs to complex, interactive logos that instantly catch users attention when they log on to start a search.
In summary, Doodle for Google is an annual art competition open to students in grades K-12, held by Google in various countries. Students are invited to create their own Google Doodle based on a specific theme, and the winning Doodle will be featured on the local Google homepage as a Doodle. The competition aims to encourage creativity and imagination among students, and to give them an opportunity to display their own Doodle creativity on Google.com and win some awesome prizes while doing it.
