This blog post is on coverage from the 2006 Doodle 4 Google Competition, please visit the 2007 web page for the Doodle 4 Google competition here.
Thanks to Kirb from the My Musings blog here for pointing this out.
Google have launched a competition for people to design a Google logo that will be on the front page of google.co.uk for 1 day and seen by around 18 million people.
The competiton is open only to (all) schools in the UK (age range 4-18 years). So i encourage you if you are at school to get your teacher to register your school and then download the information packs and lesson plans.
All the information (rules, prizes etc) can be found here on the Doodle for Google website: www.google.co.uk/doodle4google or type in google for doodle in the search box and it should be the first result that comes up.
Here are the details of the prizes, again all of these can be found on the website.
Judging & Prizes
Age GroupsThe competition is open to all students attending a school in the UK between the ages of 4 and 18. Doodles will be judged in the following three age brackets:
- 4-8 years
- 9-13 years
- 14-18 years
Judging Regions
For the purposes of the competition we have divided Britain into ten regions:
- North West
North East
Judging Process
300 Regional Finalists
The best 300 doodles from across the country will be chosen via our judging criteria. In each region, ten doodles will be selected in each of the three age groups. This means that each age group and each region will be equally represented.30 Regional Winners
Our judging panel will choose thirty top doodles to become our Regional Winners – in each of the ten regions, each age group will have one winner. These Regional Winners will be displayed in a gallery on this website. The British public will then vote for which doodles they think best capture the theme “My Britain”.3 National Winners
An awards ceremony will be held in London, attended by members of our judging panel and the thirty regional winners. The votes of the British people will be counted and the National Age Group Winners will be announced.1 National Winner
The three Age Group Winners, chosen by the British public, will be put forward for one to be awarded “National Winner of Doodle 4 Google – My Britain”. Dennis Hwang, Google’s Webmaster, will pick the National Winner whose doodle will ‘go live’ on Google’s homepage for 24 hours.Judging Panel
We have brought together the following experts to make up the “Doodle 4 Google – My Britain” 2006 judging panelgoody bag.
* The trip is for 7 nights for a maximum of four people (at least one adult).
** All travel expenses and one night’s accommodation for the finalist and a parent or guardian will be covered.School Registration Deadline
31 May 2006Doodle Entry Deadline
14 July 2006
Regional Winners Announced
October 2006Online Public Vote
Regional Winners displayed on website
Public votes for their favourite
October 2006Awards Ceremony and
National Winners Announced
November 2006
Doodle 4 Britain Report Published
November 2006
April 20, 2006 at 12:23 pm
You are lucky that you are in the UK. 🙂 Those of us in the US can’t participate.
April 20, 2006 at 12:27 pm
im sure google in the US will launch some other competition for u americans.
but i am glad they are running this comp. i think it would be really great for younger children.
i wont be entering myself though, cant draw to save my life!
April 20, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Indeed, I can’t my drawing abilities stop at stick people. No contest like this in Canada, atleast not yet.
April 20, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Wow, I just read my last comment, and it sucks. I should probably re-read things before I post them.
April 20, 2006 at 10:16 pm
haha no its fine. i understood it!
May 5, 2006 at 7:33 pm
i really like all the pictures
May 8, 2006 at 5:18 pm
our teacher wants us enter the competition(me and my classmates),so when we’re done designing,the teachers will choose 6 people to enter the competition.I’d hope I’m one of them…
DOODLE 4 GOOGLE COMPETION!!!
May 13, 2006 at 7:41 pm
hi my name is renee samuels.i’m sorry for asking you this you might think im greedy all i wanted to ask you was could you send me some pictures of some of your doodles for google
May 14, 2006 at 11:18 am
Well to be honest I don’t know if my school has even told the kids about it yet, it seems to me they are dragging their heels.
so sorry i cant show any doodles.
May 17, 2006 at 8:06 pm
My art teacher Mr Frimston sucks. He made us do like loads of Doodles. I looked at Year Elevens and they were worse than us year nines
May 17, 2006 at 8:08 pm
So im doing loads now just to shut him up! He had better not ask us for any more
May 17, 2006 at 8:10 pm
TEACHERS!
May 18, 2006 at 5:07 pm
Yo yo yo yo Cwmtawe Comprehensive in Wales are gonna win this years DOODLE 4 GOOGLE !!!
May 26, 2006 at 5:37 pm
LONDON ARE WINNING
May 26, 2006 at 5:40 pm
LONDON ARE WINNING BECUSE I AM THE BEST ARTIST BETTER THAN THE WEB MASTER HAHAHAH
May 26, 2006 at 5:42 pm
MINE IS IN THE 6 FINALLISTS
May 28, 2006 at 9:18 am
wow, in the 6th finalists congratulations.
June 17, 2006 at 9:08 pm
i got through 2 the final 4 and WALES is going 2 win cause there’s a bunch of artists in SWANSEA than in LONDON
June 17, 2006 at 9:12 pm
london can’t even DRAW a pencil thats *YOU HAVE BEEN CENSORED*
June 17, 2006 at 9:15 pm
''swansea city is the best london bridge is falling down''hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
August 13, 2006 at 4:33 pm
i am lucky because im the finallist and in cypress on holiday
September 13, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Hi i want to vote for this competion but i cant how can i manage to vote?
September 13, 2006 at 2:52 pm
hi u r *CENSORED* and i cant vote i want 2 vote aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
September 13, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Stacie, when the winners are announced on the Doodle4Google website you will be able to vote, this will not happen until October though, so a few more weeks to go.
Doodle4Google Website
September 19, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Mine didnt even get into the regional finalists!
October 1, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Hey everybody! My doodle got through to the top thirty! Can you please vote for me?! fnx =p
October 3, 2006 at 11:46 am
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October 8, 2006 at 9:05 am
hello my name is sadie hogarth and i entered the doodle for google competition and i thought that my entry was pretty good.I keep lookin on the different wbsites to see if i have got though but there arre no websites to go on 2 see if u have got through.It it says is that who was the winner of 2005.I hope that you read this and have a little more information tht could be required.
Thank you very much sadie.
October 8, 2006 at 9:06 am
hello its me again id just like to wish all the other competitors in the competition so good luck !
bye !
October 8, 2006 at 7:16 pm
Sadie please go to the Doodle4Google Homepage to be able to vote.
Link: http://www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/
September 15, 2007 at 8:12 pm
ye ye woteva doodle for google is CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 12, 2008 at 10:30 pm
that mr frimston is my cousin!!
sorry to be off topic ahaa