Google is making a final call for entries for its Doodle 4 Google creative art and design competition and is encouraging Westmeath primary and secondary schools to get involved. Already 17 Westmeath schools have registered but there is still time to get involved as the final deadline for entries is December 12.
Students entering the competition are required to create a doodle designed on, around, and through the Google logo - based on the theme My Ireland. The lucky winner will have their doodle displayed on the Google home page in Ireland, the UK, Canada, and the US to celebrate St Patrick’s Day on March 17, 2009. They will also win a laptop for themselves and their teacher and the winning school will receive a €10,000 technology grant.
Google will select the finalists from Westmeath and an expert judging panel will then select the four Westmeath winners – one per category. These doodles, along with county winners from all over the country will then be displayed on the competition website where the Irish public can view them and vote for their favourite four – one from each category. Dennis Hwang, Google’s chief doodler, will then select the overall winner.
Google’s Adele Cooper, director EMEA customer marketing said, “Competition entries have been flooding in from all over the country and we are delighted with the response from Westmeath schools, particularly from primary schools. However we would like to encourage and remind secondary schools that they still have time to enter and be in with a chance of winning some great prizes for themselves and their school.”
Interested schools can enter the competition by logging onto the competition website www.google.ie/doodle4google/
