
“He tickled our funnybone,” says Ryan Germick, the head of Google’s Doodle team. As someone who entered a lot of art contests when I was a kid - I won 31 Baskin-Robbins ice cream cones, among other things - I’m jealous of both his proficiency and his cleverness.ĭoodle 4 Google entries are judged on artistic merit, creativity, communication and apprpropriateness, but those straightforward categories don’t fully explain why Dylan took top honors among 114,000 competitors. That pirate scene at the top of this post is the work of Dylan Hoffman, the 2012 Doodle 4 Google winner the theme for that year’s contest was “If I Could Travel in Time, I’d Visit…,” and he was seven when he won.

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The grand winner will get a $30,000 college scholarship, a $50,000 tech grant for his or her school, a Chromebook, a Wacom tablet and other prizes, plus a trip to New York for the awards ceremony - and the glory of seeing his or her Doodle appear on Google’s U.S. (This competition is for students in the U.S., but Google also runs similar Doodle 4 Google contests in other parts of the world.) That’s 250 students in total whose Doodles will be honored. This year’s theme is “My Best Day Ever…,” and there will be 50 state finalists in each of five different age groups, all of whom will be in the running for the overall grand prize.


Today, Google is launching the 2013 edition of the competition. They’re the winners of the company’s Doodle 4 Google contest, in which the company invites students from kindergarten through 12th grade to submit Doodles on a theme that’s been designed to inspire maximum creativity. Follow of the most lovable Google Doodles - the search engine’s custom logos celebrating a particular subject - don’t emerge from Google itself.
