Doodle 4 Google

New! Online public voting is now closed: May 18 - 25, 2010.

Winners were announced on May 26th.

We're honored to be partnering again with the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum for the competition and formal exhibit of our 40 Regional Finalists as we hope to encourage the next generation of designers and artists.

Doodle 4 Google 2009 Event Highlights

…Figure out a cure for cancer
…Build a movie theater on the moon
…Be an underwater explorer

Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we've invited U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would …"

National Winner - 2010

Rainforest Habitat

I chose this doodle because the rainforest is in danger and it is not fair to the plants and animals. I love everything except spiders and snakes, but I would still save them.

Makenzie Melton
Age 9, Grade 3
El Dorado Springs, R-2 Schools
El Dorado Springs, Missouri

Makenzie’s design was selected from more than 33,000 student submissions from all over the country. She received a $15,000 college scholarship, a netbook computer and a $25,000 technology grant for a new computer lab at her school. Her doodle was also featured on the Google.com homepage on May 27, 2010 for millions of people to enjoy all across the country. This year, a group of "Expert Jurors", well-known illustrators, cartoonists and animators from organizations like Disney, The Sesame Street Workshop, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates and Peanuts and Pixar Animation Studios helped select the 40 finalist doodles and attended the final awards ceremony to personally meet our winners.

Google Visits to Regional Finalist Schools
For the first time ever, Google went straight to classrooms all across the United States as part of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition. Throughout the school day on May 18, 2010, Googlers visted the schools of our top 40 Regional Finalists. Check out our events album.