Stratford Student Wins Connecticut ‘Doodle 4 Google’ Competition

STRATFORD, CT — Bunnell sophomore Sarah Harrison has been named the winner of this year’s Connecticut Doodle 4 Google Competition, Google announced this week.

Ambassadors from Google traveled to Stratford on Wednesday to honor Harrison.

Harrison’s winning artwork was based on the prompt “What I see for the future…” and was revealed during a school assembly. As winner, she will be awarded an Android tablet, along with a chance to win a $30,000 college scholarship and $50,000 Google for Education grant for her school.

Pictured: Harrison’s winning artwork, courtesy of Google

“This year’s Doodle 4 Google Competition was aimed at getting students to think about the future they want to create, and their submissions were nothing short of inspiring,” said William Floyd, Head of External Affairs for Google. “Sarah’s work specifically stood out, and we were encouraged to see her represent values like inclusion and tolerance in her art.”

In her Doodle statement, Harrison said: “My future is a world where we can all learn to love each other despite our religion, gender, race, ethnicity, or sexuality. I dream of a future where everyone is safe and accepted wherever they go, whoever they are.”

The Doodle 4 Google competition gives K-12 students across the country the opportunity to have their artwork featured on Google’s homepage. This year, a panel of judges including Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and Grammy Award-winning artist Sia selected the winners for each state or territory, choosing from over 4,200 entries.

To help their favorites succeed, everyone across the USA can vote for their favorite doodle from the 53 state winners.

Voting will be open from February 23rd to March 6th on this site: http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html, and the public vote will determine the five national finalists (one in each grade group).Voting ends at 5pm EST on Monday, March 6th. Google will announce these five national finalists and one of them as the national winner on March 31 — and the winner’s doodle will go live on Google.com that day.