Entries now open for online voting for users to choose the winner
We’re very excited that the annual Doodle4Google (D4G) competition with theme ‘Celebrating Indian Women’ has reached its final stages. This year, like the previous five years, the competition has seen amazing response from across the country and we are glad to announce our 12 Finalists from across the country.
Details of the finalists along with their best doodles are showcased at: http://www.google.co.in/doodle4google/. Online voting to pick the final winner has been ongoing from November 1 and will close on November 8. Our final champion doodler will be announced on November 12 at an event in New Delhi.
As always, this year’s D4G participants are grouped into three categories: Group 1 comprising students from class 1 to 3; Group 2 with students from class 4 to 6; and Group 3 with students from class 7 to 10. We received a staggering 1 lakh 50 thousand entries this time which went through a round of preliminary judging by Selective Art Schools; as a second step, you get to now vote for your choices online to choose one winner from each group. Finally, the reputed jury Ajit Ninan, the political cartoonist, along with Google Doodler Dennis Hwang, will select the final winning doodle from all the finalists.
The winning doodle will be placed on the google.co.in homepage on November 14, National Children’s Day. The top 3 winners will receive a merit certificate at the finale to be held in the capital.
Here is the list of the 12 finalists from across India:
Group 1: class 1 to 3
1. Avipsha Das – Loreto Day School, Kolkata
2. Soham Patil – Vidyashilp Public School, Pune
3. Shreya Pandey – K V Hebbar, Bangalore
4. Madhuram Vatsal – St. Francis’s College, Lucknow
Group 2: class 4 to 6
1. Binita Biswajeeta – D.A.V Public School, Orissa
2. Ayan Yasin Shaikh – St. Joseph High School, New Panvel, Mumbai
3. Dikshita S – St. Charles High School, Bangalore
4. Prakhar Singh – St. Francis’s College, Lucknow
Group 3: class 7 to 10
1. Vinni Malik – The Emerald Heights International School, Indore
2. Gayatri Ketharaman – The Bishop’s Co-Ed School, Pune
3. Akash Shetty – St Aloysius High School, Mangalore
4. Devanshi Das – Delhi Public School, Faridabad
About Doodle History:
Over the years, doodles on the Google homepage have made search on Google more fun and enjoyable for its users worldwide. When doodles were first created, nobody had anticipated how popular and integral they would become to the Google search experience. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the release of each new doodle and some even collect them!
Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists. Having a little bit of fun with the corporate logo by redesigning it from time to time is unheard of at many companies but at Google, it is a part of the brand. While the doodle is primarily a fun way for the company to recognize events and notable people, it also illustrates the creative and innovative personality of the company itself.
About Google Inc.
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Posted by Sandeep Menon, Director of Marketing, Google India
