Atlanta Student is GA Google Doodle Contest Winner, Needs National Votes

BROOKHAVEN, GA — A Marist student’s love of sports has made him a winner here in Georgia. And, with your help, he could soon be a national winner with a ticket to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA, where he’ll sit down with a team of professional doodlers in charge of decorating the busiest web page in the world.

Ian Otten, a student at Marist School in Brookhaven, is one of 53 national winners in the Doodle 4 Google Competition, a contest open to K-12 students across the United States to redesign the Google logo.

HIs theme was “What makes me...me” and Ian’s Google doodle is bona fide expression of his love of sports.

He calls it “My Love of Sports” and said “Whether I’m on the fields or in the stands, or just on my couch watching, I’ve played sports ever since I can remember and it’s always been a huge part of my life.”

Vote for Ian HERE.

Google will announce five national finalists and one national winner on March 21. The winner’s Google doodle will go live on Google.com that day.

The winning student and national finalists will travel to Mountain View, California, to meet and workshop with Google’s team of professional doodlers and see what it takes to launch a Doodle on the Google homepage. This year, the National Finalist can also nominate a teacher who has inspired them to come along on the trip. The National Winner will take home a $30,000 college scholarship and his or her school will receive a $50,000 Google for Education grant towards the establishment and improvement of a computer lab or technology program.

Voting is open to anyone in the USA and voting opens Friday, Feb. 5 until Feb. 22.

Ian’s entry can be found here. To see a full list of state winners, visit Google here.