Google has announced “Doodle 4 Google – My Britain”, a competition for the U. K. school pupils aged 4-18. The best artist will win a trip for four to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.


Google has announced “Doodle 4 Google – My Britain”, a competition for the U. K. school pupils aged 4-18. The best artist will win a trip for four to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

Dennis Hwang, a 23-year-old Korean computer artist in the United States, has been drawing doodles of Google for almost two years. Dennis has produced 150 doodles so far.

According to Dennis, “But the doodle tradition started here before I did. The first doodle was produced by (who else?) Larry and Sergey, who, when they attended the Burning Man festival in summer 1999, put a little stick figure on the home page logo in case the site crashed and someone wanted to know why nobody was answering the phone”. [source]

Google had a pilot competition for doodlers in 2005. 11-year-old Lisa Waiwaina won the competition.

To have a look at Lisa’s Doodle, click here.

To check out some of the Google Doodles, click here.

To know more about Dennis Hwang, the Google Doodler, click here.

If you are a school in the U. K. and want your pupils to participate, click here.

 

 

 

 

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