Google is making its final call for Westmeath entries for the company’s Doodle 4 Google creative art and design competition. Nine Westmeath primary and secondary schools have already registered but there is still time to get involved as the deadline for entries is December 18.
Students entering the competition are being asked to create a doodle on and around the Google logo based on the theme‘My Future’. The winning doodle will be viewed by millions of internet users when it is placed on the Google homepage in Ireland on March 3 2010. The winner will receive a laptop for themselves and their teacher and a technology grant of €10,000 will be awarded to the winning school.
Entries are accepted in four categories:
· Category 1 – Junior Infants, Senior Infants, 1st Class, 2nd Class
· Category 2 – 3rd Class, 4th Class, 5th Class, 6th Class
· Category 3 – 1st Year, 2nd Year, 3rd Year
· Category 4 – Transition Year, 5th Year, 6th Year, and Youthreach
Five winners from each category will be selected from Leinster by a panel of judges. These 20 regional winners, along with regional winners from all over the country, will be displayed on the Doodle 4 Google website and the general public will be invited to vote for their favourite doodle. The top 4 doodles, as voted by the public, will then be assessed by Google webmaster Michael Lopez, who will select the overall winner.
Google’s Adele Cooper, director global customer marketing said, “We have so far received hundreds of very creative entries from all over the country and there has been a great interest from Westmeath schools. Students in both primary and secondary schools throughout Westmeath still have time to enter and be in with a chance of winning some great prizes for themselves and their school and having their doodle appearing on the world wide web!”
Interested schools can enter the competition by logging onto the competition website www.google.ie/doodle4google/
