Google reveals finalists for annual ‘Doodle For Google’ competition, winner to get Rs 5 lakh

Google has unveiled the 20 finalists of its annual Doodle For Google competition, and opened online voting to the public to choose their favourite doodle in each of the five class-wise categories at the publicly available link doodles.google.co.in/d4g/. Over 100,000 students from 1450 schools in 100+ cities across the country participated in the contest submitting entries on the theme of ‘In the next 25 years, my India will…’ 

The doodle of the National Winner amongst these will be featured on www.google.co.in for 24 hours on November 14, 2022. In addition, the National Winner will also receive a Rs 500,000 college scholarship, Rs 200,000 technology package for their school or non-profit organization, a Certificate or Trophy of achievement, Google hardware devices or allied products (subject to availability), and fun Google collectibles.  

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The Doodle For Google contest has been held in India nearly every year since 2009, and invites art-loving students from Class 1 to 10 in India to develop their own interpretations of the Google logo and submit creative doodles aligned with a predetermined contest theme. The entries are evaluated by Google executives and by a jury panel consisting of industry leaders and creative thinkers from across the country.

This year’s panel of judges consisted of Neena Gupta, national awardee, actor, filmmaker, producer and TV personality; Kuriakose Vaisian, comic book editor, filmmaker, and stand-up comic; social influencers and founders of Slayypoint, Abhyudaya Mohan and Gautami Kawale; and Alika Bhatt, artist, teacher, YouTuber, Tedx speaker, and entrepreneur.

Online voting for the contest will be open to the public until November 7 (closing at 10 am IST).