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6th Grader Wins Votes and Hearts to Become National Winner of Doodle 4 Google Contest

‘Enjoy every moment in life’ is what student from Pune wants to teach the entire world to make it a happy place

Nov 11, 2016   14:07 PM 
New Delhi, Delhi, India

With participation from over fifty cities across India and ten days of voting, the anticipation for the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition is finally over. Eleven year-old Anvita Prashant Telang from Vibgyor High School, Balewadi, Pune has been chosen as the national winner for her imaginative, thoughtful and inspiring doodle, titled “Enjoy Every Moment.” Anvita’s doodle will be featured on the Google India homepage on November 14th to celebrate Children’s Day.

 

 

 

Anvita Prashant Telang from Pune, the National Winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google Contest.

 

Taking about the contest, Sapna Chadha, Head of Marketing, Google India said, “We are overwhelmed to see great participation from talented and creative young artists year-on-year since 2009. With Doodle 4 Google competition, we aim to celebrate and promote creativity, passion, and imagination in our younger users. The designs for this year’s theme “If I could teach anyone anything, it would be” were incredibly creative across all grade groups. It’s heartening to see the messages that these young minds wish to communicate with such creativity. It was a tough competition. Our heartiest congratulations to Anvita for being judged as the winner this year.”

 

Anvita Prashant Telang, submitted her Doodle around this year’s theme, If I could teach anyone anything, it would be’. Her creativity and vision towards developing ‘a better world and healthy lifestyle’ is well reflected through her colorful doodle where she has showcased how everyone should ‘Enjoy Every Moment’ and appreciate the simple things around us and live stress free lives.

 

All the entries were evaluated on the criteria of artistic merit, creativity and theme communication as well as their unique and novel approach to the Doodle. This year’s jury, political cartoonist, Ajit Ninan, Art Director Savio Mascarenhas, popular creative artist Rob and Doodle team lead Ryan Germick had a mammoth task at hand; first, to shortlist from the submissions received, and then to choose the national winner and regional winners from across the nation, with each piece of art as competitive and as compelling as the other.

 

In addition to selecting Anvita Telang as the national winner, close to 100 thousand public votes helped determine the three group winners:

 

Grades 1-3: B Shrisha, Sri Prakash Vidyaniketan, Visakhapatnam for her doodle ‘Indoor Gardening’

  

Grades 4-6:  Anvita Prashant Telang, Vibgyor High School, Pune for her doodle titled ‘Enjoy every moment’.

Grades 7-10:  Akashdeep, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Doranda, Ranchi for her doodle titled ‘Water Conservation for A Better Tomorrow’

 

To view the details of all the finalists along with their doodles, click here: doodles.google.co.in/d4g

 

About the History of the Doodle:

Over the years, doodles on the Google homepage have made search on Google more fun and enjoyable for its users worldwide. When doodles were first created, nobody had anticipated how popular and integral they would become to the Google search experience. Nowadays, many users excitedly anticipate the release of each new doodle and some even collect them!

 

Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists. Having a little bit of fun with the corporate logo by redesigning it from time to time is unheard of at many companies but at Google, it is a part of the brand. While the doodle is primarily a fun way for the company to recognize events and notable people, it also illustrates the creative and innovative personality of the company itself.