Doodle 4 Google Finalists Revealed: How To Vote

With a $30,000 college scholarship up for grabs, competition was fierce in this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest, which asked students from across the country and in U.S. territories to get out their pens, paper and crayons and draw a doodle based on “what inspires me.” The 52 winning state and regional drawings were made public Monday by the Mountain View, California-based technology giant.

A young artist from New Hampshire is inspired by outer space and wants to become an astronaut. The high school child of a single mother in Hawaii is a little more down-to-Earth, and has been inspired by watching Mom “doing six things at once.” In New York, a student submitted a drawing of “a doctor and her tools.”

The contest was open to students in grades kindergarten through 12. Public voting continues until 3 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on May 19. Five national finalists will be chosen in the public voting session

To vote and look at your state’s winning doodles, go here.

From those five finalists, the winner will be selected by a panel of judges. Besides getting a big scholarship, the winner will get fame with a featured doodle on the Google homepage, Google hardware and swag, and a behind-the-scenes trip to Google headquarters. The winner’s school or nonprofit organization will also receive a $50,000 technology package.

The doodles of all the other winners — the non-winning finalists and the state and territory winners — will be featured on the Doodle 4 Google gallery and those young artists also will get Google hardware and swag.

The non-winning finalists will each get a $5,000 college scholarship and a visit to the Google headquarters.

Google has been notifying the state and territory winners over the past couple of weeks with individual presentations at the students’ schools. Check out some of the presentations on Twitter with the hashtag #Doodle4Google.

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