Google To Let Kids Doodle Dreams On India

As part of children’s day celebrations Google is encouraging kids to doodle on their dreams for India.

Online search engine, Google has announced a doodle competition coinciding with the children’s day celebrations in India. The event which will be held on November 14th, childrens day, will encourage students from all over India to doodle based on the theme ‘My dream for India’.

Open to children aged between Five-Sixteen, the young participants will have to imagine what India would be like in two decades from now and capture those images in color and paper. The best doodle will be featured on Google and the star Doodler will receive a technology starter package including a laptop, a year’s Internet connection and a Rs 2,000,00 technology grant for the school that he or she will represent,

The participants will be clubbed in three different categories – 1st to 3rd Standard, 4th to 6th Standard and 7th to 10th Standard. JJ School of Arts will select the top 200 entries from each category which will be reviewed by a panel of judges. The judges will then shortlist 15 doodles from each category, bringing it down to a total of 45 final Doodles.

All the final entries will be exhibited for public voting and based on the number of votes, one winner from each category will be selected. Each of these winners will receive a laptop. Dennis Hwang, the original Google Doodler, will then choose the final winning Doodle from the total 45 finalists.