Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to play around with our homepage logo and see what new designs they come up with. This year we're inviting U.S. kids to join in the doodling fun, around the intriguing theme "What I Wish for the World."Right now they are having a public online vote to narrow down each of the 4 age groups to one winner, then an overall winner will be chosen next week. The winner gets a scholarship and a computer and their doodle on a t-shirt and the Google homepage on May 21st , so I donated 5 minutes of my life to voting on the current round of finalists. Here are the entries I voted for:
Name: Johnny Zuk Age: 6
School: MONROE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
City, State: Monroe, CT
Name: Courtney Bodine Age: 11School: MOORESTOWN UPPER ELEMENTARY
City, State: Moorestown, NJ
This one's cool because I dig animals and the tiger looks really badass just chilling up in the tree. I think he's just waiting for everyone to stop talking about peace so he can eat the bird.
Name: Abigail Kois Age: 12
Name: Abigail Kois Age: 12School: GANADA MIDDLE SCHOOL
City, State: Walworth, NYIn middle school, I had my bedroom decorated with paper clips. It was the dorkiest thing in the world, but I had thousands of paper clips of various colors and sizes linked up and draped from the ceiling circling the room. Personally, I think this should have incorporated a little variety within each letter, but this design looks really clean and simple and most importantly, appeals to my dork side.
Name: Jeff Warner Age: 16School: BRADFORD AREA HIGH SCHOOL
City, State: Bradford, PA
This one is also pretty clean and simple, but at the same time, is completely action packed. And it works in FOUR DIMENSIONS! I like that the kid anticipates the destruction of the 2.0-zone layer in the future. Instead of whitespace, he opts instead for hazy blackspace. Now that's a future Robocop can defend. Pastel Robocop at least.
And now I'm donating an extra few minutes to overanalyze my votes. The four age groups (Kindergarten - Grade 3, Grade 4 - Grade 6, Grade 7 - Grade 9, Grade 10 - Grade 12) are further split into ten US Regional categories. I looked at all of the entries equally, and made my selections, and my favorites all ended up coming from Region 1 or 2, made up of Northeastern states.
- Region 1:
- Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
- Region 2:
- New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania
All jokes aside (there is no grassy knoll across the street from the Google New York office), I'm asking y'all* to go vote. Yes, I know that even if you don't vote there will still be a prize awarded, but a lot of traffic and attention is probably what will keep this program and other programs like it going year after year. Plus if we keep kids in school drawing all the time, it will stop them from sexting so damn much. Go!
*See, I can appeal to other regions of the US.
1 comment:
I went & voted :) Cause, you know, I kind of had to.
I felt the need to deviate from your picks. But that was tough, I tell you, you picked some good ones. My choices: K-3 = Region 1 (rocker on fire), 4-6 = Region 9 (learn teach reach. well drawn, I like the cogs too), 7-9 = Region 1 (i'm a sucker for black & white), 10-12 = Region 7 (I love the phoenix, even if the sentiment is a little hokey. But c'mon, the whole thing is a little hokey).
I had trouble deciding how much affect the little blurb should have on my decision. I wanted to judge them on aesthetics only. At that age, kids are too inclined to cliche´. No fault of their own, just the way it is.
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