IXth grader Vaidehi Reddy from Pune
With more than a million entries from over 2100 schools across 50 cities we finally have this year’s India Doodle4Google (D4G) winner! IXth grader Vaidehi Reddy’s doodle will be featured on the Google India homepage on November 14th to celebrate Children’s Day.
Vaidehi Reddy, who attends Army Public School, Pune, submitted her Doodle around this year’s theme, ‘A place in India I wish to visit’. Vaidehi’s doodle artfully depicts Assam, where she would like to go because it is rich in both, natural beauty and culture.
This year’s jury, Political cartoonist Ajit Ninan, Art Director Children's Publishing at ACK Media Savio Mascarenhas and Google Doodle team lead Ryan Germick along with the Google Doodle team had a mammoth task at hand - to choose the national winner.
We are overwhelmed to see great participation from young children and schools year-on-year since 2009. The designs for this year’s theme “A place in India I wish to visit” were incredibly creative across all grade groups. In addition to selecting Vaidehi Reddy as the national winner, public votes helped us determine the three group winners:
Grades 1-3: Sarvagjna Miriyala, DAV Public School, Panvel, Mumbai won the prize for her doodle titled ‘Gods own country Kerala’
Grades 4-6: V Sai Latha Rani, Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan, Vizag won the prize for her doodle titled ‘Ooty’s beauty’
Grades 7-10: Y Sai Greeshma, Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan, Vizag won the prize for her doodle titled ‘Heritage Glorified - Hampi’
