During the first few weeks of term 3, our class have been in the process of designing Google doodles, representing New Zealand.
Google was holding a competition for kids in New Zealand to design a Google Doodle. Google doodle's are artistic drawings that are shown on the NZ Google Homepage.
Each student was given a blank Google design sheet and was expected to come up with creative ideas to include on their Google Doodle. This was a success. Many pupils had great ideas and all of the designs look awesome !
As a class we voted for a Google Doodle that stood out the most for us, and could be in the process to be one of the 8 Google doodles chosen from our class to send to Google.
100 finalists will be chosen from all over New Zealand, 25 from each age group and the prize will be a Google Certificate. 20 winners will be chosen out of all the age groups. The prizes: A copy of the Google design for their school, an invitation to the ceremony for the National winners; their Google Doodle displayed on the Google website for the public to vote, and a Doodle 4 Google goody bag. The national age group winner will be chosen by the public's vote, and there will be one design chosen from each age group. Prizes: Interactive white board for their school, and laptop for the winner.
Dennis Hwang, Google's Webmaster, will pick the National overall winner, out of the four chosen age group winners. This winner will recieve $10,000 worth of technology equipment for their school, and their design will be on the Google homepage for 24 hours
