Art Teacher Sherry Mirakian has entered 18 creative designs by students from the 7th to the 12th grade in this year’s “Doodle for Google” contest. The winners in this national student art contest will be announced in June.
This year’s contest theme asked students to draw upon their dreams and create a design that reflected their hopes for the future. Each design had to be created using the Google logo. 10th grader Isaac Hart’s design is about searching the solar system. Isaac said he hoped that in the future “the world will explore more planets and moons in our solar system, making space travel more accessible to all.” 7th grader Ryleigh Martin’s design focused on protecting the earth. Her hope is that in the future “the environment would be a much safer place to live.”
Mirakian said the students worked on their designs over a three-week period in the Art Workshop and Art II classes and in the after-school Art Studio Club. Pictured here are eight of the students with their entries: 1st row, from left: 7th grader Ryleigh Martin; 12th grader Maya Wahl; and 12th grader Rachel Colasuonno; 2nd row, from left: 10th grader Isaac Hart; 10th grader Matthew Dietrich; and 12th grader Solomon Griffith; 3rd row, from left: 10th grader Katherine Haoshen Kong; and 10th grader Jeremiah Engle.
According to the contest rules, there will be 53 state/territory winners whose designs will be displayed on an online gallery on the Doodle for Google website. The public will have five days to vote for their favorite doodle among these designs. Five finalists will be flown to Google’s Mountain View headquarters, and one winning student from among the five will receive a $30,000 college scholarship; a $50,000 Google for Education technology package for their school; and their artwork will be placed on the Google homepage for a day. The remaining four finalists will win a $5,000 college scholarship.