To named her doodle “A Moment Immortalized in Gold” and explained the meaning of it: “Books, art and writing effectively silenced the almost perpetual noise of my thoughts and fed the starving beasts running rampant in my mind. The art prompt for this year was “I care for myself by…” Three people judged the contest submissions, which was open to students in kindergarten through 12th grade, including singer Selena Gomez. Kids no doubt were able to draw at least some inspiration for the contest from these past logos.Shakopee middle school student Gabrielle To is the Minnesota winner of Google’s 14th annual “Doodle for Google” contest, according to a press release.

Recently, Google doodles have riffed on American dance icon Martha Graham, illustrator/author Roger Hargreaves and author Agatha Christie. Matteo's work joins the gallery of Google doodles that regularly toss a little variety in the simple logo that has become such a part of our daily lives. It was Matteo's first time in the Big Apple, and he enjoyed going to the M&M store and Times Square.

Appropriateness of the supporting statementĮach Regional Winner receieved a visit from a Google employee to their school, and were also flown to New York for yesterday's announcement of the national winner.

Theme communication: how well the theme is expressed.

Creativity: based on the representation of the theme and use of the Google logo.

Artistic merit: based on grade group and artistic skill.

They judged based on the following criteria: A panel of celebrity judges - which this year included Whoopi Goldberg, Olympic ice skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek (who was not the only Olympian judge, with swimmer Michael Phelps also in the mix) and beloved children's author Beverly Cleary - narrowed the entries down to 400 State Finalists in four grade appropriate groups of 100 (K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12), who are then narrowed down to 40 Regional Winners.

Doodle4google winners