Ready Your Pencils And Colors Kids, It’s Time To ‘Doodle 4 Google’!

                 Google India announced its Doodle 4 Google contest 2012, inviting school-going students in the age group of 5 to 16 nationwide to come and scribble some innovative ideas as their Google Doodles. Whichever doodle wins shall find it’s place on the Google homepage on the 14th of November, the day celebrated as Children’s Day in India. The theme for this year’s contest is ‘Unity In Diversity’, and the last day of entry-submission is 23rd October, 2012.

               Last year saw over a lakh doodly-entries being poured in, and the number is just about to increase, what with Google expanding this contest to 40 cities. Nikhil Rungta, Country Marketing Head, Google India, voiced that this contest provides a worthy enough platform for kids to enjoy the mix in art and technology, where they get to compete on a national level.

           The participants will be grouped in three sections, class-wise. Group 1 will place students from class 1 to 3. Group 2 will place students from class 4 to 6, and finally Group 3 will place students from class 7 to 10. In what comes as a new from Google, a region-wise grouping of the participants shall follow too, in North, South, East, West - and three students from every regions, one per group, will be shortlisted.

              The first round is based on preliminary judging, where 12 lucky entries shall be lifted off from the pool of entries by a selected panel of judges. These 12 entries will then welcome public voting, and the one who gets the maximum vote from every group shall make it to the finals. The jury, plus the original Google doodler, will pick the winning doodle that’ll ornament the Google Homepage on 14th November.

Do check out the submission-guidelines here.