Kind of Interesting, Google Art Competition, Doodle4Google
February 12th, 2009
In past years Google has offered a competition for school children, kindergarten through twelfth grade, called the Doodle4Google contest. Children are asked to create a design based on Google’s logo, and center it around a theme. This year’s theme is “What I Wish For the World”. The reasoning behind this theme, according to the Doodle4Google page, is that because our country is on the “brink of change” it seemed to be a “timely” theme. This should create some interesting conversation, it will be fun to see what the winners come up with. The suggestions put forth by Google are notable:
…we use plants for electricity
… we make college free for everyone
… we give health insurance to all who need it
… we connect everyone by cell phone or computer
I guess we could read into these suggestions if we chose to, especially the health insurance suggestion, which points to a certain political point of view, as does making college free for everyone.
But, I’d rather focus on the positive in this competition. It does encourage creativity, homeschoolers and private schools are welcome and encouraged to register as participants. Google is offering some amazing prizes to the winners, including some college scholarships.
This is actually a pretty neat thing for Google to do, and they are teaming up with the Smithsonian’s, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Because The Karcher Group also likes to encourage youth to explore the connection between creativity, art and technology, we will do our small part to promote this competition.
The images I have included were from last year’s competition themed “What if…?”
May 18th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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