Google invites K-12 students every year to create a Doodle for the iconic Search homepage. Doodle for Google 2020 is now accepting U.S. Doodle for Google’s annual contest is accepting submissions for the Google logo to be featured on the local Google homepage. Submit yours today.
But kindness is so much more than just being nice. This year’s theme invites you to tell us how you show kindness. Is it by helping around your home? Volunteering in your community’s green space? Maybe it’s comforting someone who’s down, or picking up trash in the park.
However you define it, let us know how you bring a little bit more kindness into the world. Take your ideas and bring them to life in your doodle!
ENTER A DOODLE
This year’s contest is open for online and mailed entries until March 13, 2020 at 8:00pm PST. Download instructions and entry form here.
Enter by mail
Carefully package the doodle in an envelope so that it won’t get damaged, affix the proper postage, and mail it to the following address:
Google LLC Doodle for Google Spear Tower 1 Market Street Ste 400 San Francisco, CA 94105-9868
How it works
Use your imagination to create a Google Doodle based on what kindness means to you.
How to enter
We’re excited to see some kind doodles this year! Students can work with any materials they want, but all doodles must be entered using the entry form. Parents and teachers can mail us the completed entry form or submit it online as a .png, or .jpg. The contest is open for entries until March 13, 2020 8:00pm Pacific Time (PT), so here’s some information to help you get started:
Download or print the Entry Form
Doodle:
Artists create their Doodles using any materials they want. From crayons to clay to found objects.
Write:
Artist’s statement – Tell us about what you have drawn and how it represents kindness to you.
Fill out the rest of the required information and sign the entry form.
Submit:
Enter the contest.
Entry form doodles: If the doodle is created directly on our entry form, you can either upload them to our site as a .jpg or .png (visit the enter tab) or mail them in (address listed on the enter tab).
Other doodles: If the doodle wasn’t created directly on our entry form, take a high-res digital photo or scan of the doodle in good lighting and combine it with the entry form.
Judging criteria
Doodles will be judged on the following parameters:
Artistic merit:
Based on artistic skill
Creativity:
Representation of the contest theme, use of the letters in the Google logo, and the unique approach to the doodle
Theme communication:
How well the contest theme is expressed in both the artwork and the written statement
Doodles will be grouped and judged by the following 5 grade groups:
Grades K-3
Grades 4-5
Grades 6-7
Grades 8-9
Grades 10-12
Finalists will be judged on a state-by-state basis as described below.
State and Territory Winners:
10 or more winners for each grade group, 54 in total
National Finalists:
1 finalist for each grade group, 5 in total
National Winner:
Featured on Google.com
Competition levels
Fifty-Four State and Territory Winners
The Guest Judges and Google Doodlers will select the best doodle from each of the 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as the State and Territory Winners. These 54 State and Territory Winners will be displayed in an online gallery on the Doodle for Google website.
Five National Finalists
For a period of 5 days the U.S. public will vote for their favorite doodle from the 54 State and Territory Winners. These votes will help determine the National Finalists.
One National Winner
A panel of Google executives will choose one of the five National Finalists and announce the National Winner in June.
Learn more about what the 2020 winners and finalists will receive on the prizes page.
Disqualifications
Doodles that are not original works, contain logos, or copyright imagery will be disqualified.
Only one application per student. Only the first doodle entered for each student will be considered, and any additional doodles will be disqualified.
Please read through contest rules for more information.
Prizes
Win a $30,000 college scholarship, a $50,000 tech package for your school/non-profit organization, and your artwork displayed for a day on Google.com!
National Winner
The National Winner’s artwork will be displayed on Google.com for one day. He or she will also receive:
A $30,000 college scholarship
A $50,000 technology package for their school/non-profit organization
A trip to Google headquarters in California
Google hardware
Fun Googley swag
National Finalists
The four National Finalists, who do not become the National Winner, will have their doodles featured on the Doodle for Google gallery. Each National Finalist will receive:
A $5,000 college scholarship
A trip to Google headquarters in California
Google hardware
Fun Googley swag
State and Territory Winners
All State and Territory winners will have their doodles featured on the Doodle for Google gallery, and will receive:
Google hardware
An assembly celebration at their school
Fun Googley swag
Judge
Google is assembling an amazing panel of judges to help decide the winners.
This year, we’re off to a great start with Rodney Robinson, 2019’s National Teacher of the Year. Who will the others be? A super-brainy scientist? A world famous musician? Check back to find out who they are.
