Kids, Want to Win a $30,000 Scholarship and Show Your Art to Billions? Google’s Annual Doodle Contest Is Now Open

Most artists dream of sharing
their art with an audience of hundreds, maybe thousands.
But the team behind
Google’s Doodles—those
quirky illustrations and animations that replace the search
engine’s logo each day—has their work seen by
billions. 

Now, you too can have your work
grace the tech giant’s landing page. The company has released
an open call for its
12th annual Doodle for Google contest, which invites young US artists in grades K-12
to submit drawings based on a congenial theme that incorporates the
Google logo. This year’s theme? “I show kindness
by…”  

“Acts of kindness bring more
joy, light, and warmth to the world,” says Jessica Yu, the head of
Google’s Doodle team, in the contest’s
announcement. “They cost
nothing, but mean everything.”

Well, isn’t that
lovely.

The winner will be chosen from a
shortlist of five finalists. Besides having their illustration
featured atop Google.com for a day, the winner will also receive a
$30,000 college scholarship, a $50,000 technology package for their
school, and a trip to the company’s headquarters in California. The
four other finalists will also join on the trip and will each get a
$5,000 scholarship. Submissions for this year’s contest close on
March 13, 2020.

The Doodle contest has been held
yearly since 2008. Last year’s winner was Arantza Peña Popo, a high
school senior from Georgia who responded to the theme, “When I grow
up I hope…” with a picture of herself
below a framed painting of her mother. She also made a charming
appearance on the
Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

“[The Doodle team is ] a very
heart-driven organization in a very data-driven company, quite
frankly,” Yu told Artnet last
year. “We know that not
every Doodle is going to be everyone’s favorite, so we aim to
ensure that every Doodle is going to be somebody’s
favorite.”

Apply for this year’s Doodle for
Google contest here. And see other previous winners
below. 

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