Doodle 4 Google Asks Kids to Predict the Future

Calling all young artists across the US, Guam, and Puerto Rico: Google needs your help! The Web giant, concluding week, started its almanac Putter iv Google art contest, inviting Yard-12 students to create their own version of the Google logo.

The winning masterpiece volition exist showcased on the Google homepage for a day, ensuring that millions of people will come across it.

The theme of this year'southward competition is "What I See for the Futurity" and Google is request kids to "imagine what awaits them in the years to come and represent that vision" in their doodle. Kids can utilize any materials to bring their vision to life—crayons, clay, graphic design, even food—simply be sure to incorporate the letters Thousand-o-o-g-l-e in your doodle.

"Yeah, that means anything they see—even if information technology includes flight dogs, living on a shooting star, the trip of their dreams, or for the true Futurists out there—perhaps a distant world filled with dazzling new engineering science of all shapes and sizes," Google Doodle Team Lead, Ryan Germick, wrote in a blogpost.

Submissions are open now through December 2; just caput over hither to enter a doodle. One time the entry menses closes, Google's judges (who accept yet to be named) will narrow the field to the 53 best doodles, then the public will be invited to vote for their favorite online.

Google has been hosting this contest every twelvemonth since 2008. During the 2022-sixteen contest, a sophomore from Washington D.C. named Akilah Johnson took home the top prize. Her winning doodle is pictured above.

Southeast Asia likewise had its ain Putter for Google campaigns with the most recent 1 being Singapore when information technology historic its l years of independence. Malaysia and the Philippines had a similar contest two years back.

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fitness and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nigh 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, eye charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.