Doodle 4 Google are inviting Kerry students to enter the Ireland 2016 Doodle 4 Google competition.
KERRY students have been invited to take part in the latest ‘Doodle 4 Google’ campaign as part of the where they must create Doodles based on the ‘Google’ logo and centre it around the theme of ‘Ireland Is..’
The campaign is centered around marking the 2016 commemorations here in Ireland.
The winning Doodle will appear on the Google homepage on Easter Monday, 28th March 2016 with themes that students can explore including ‘Our Home’, ‘Our Story’, ‘Our Identity’ and ‘Our Journey’.
“We’re always blown away by the creativity and talent we see in the entries from Kerry students to Doodle4Google every year and we’re really looking forward to this year’s competition,” said Ronan Harris, Vice President and Head of Google in Ireland.
“2016 is a significant year for Ireland, commemorating as it does the events of 1916 which subsequently led to the birth of the modern Ireland we are today.
“This year’s Doodle 4 Google competition allows young people to express their views of this Ireland through their doodles and we hope in preparing their entries that it will encourage discussion in schools, and among children and their parents on the themes of Ireland then and now,” he finished.
Entries from Kerry schools are invited in the following categories:
• Group 1: Junior / Senior Infants
• Group 2: 1st, 2nd, 3rd class
• Group 3: 4th, 5th, 6th class
• Group 4: 1st, 2nd, 3rd year
• Group 5: 4th, 5th, 6th year
This year’s judges include the artist Maser, who began painting graffiti on the streets of Dublin and is now one of Ireland’s leading visual artists working in the urban environment.
Aideen Howard, director of the Ark Children’s theatre and Tomm Moore who is co-founder and Creative Director of Cartoon Saloon, who directed the Oscar nominated film The Secret of Kells and the film Song of the Sea.
They will have the task of whittling down the thousands of entries to 75 finalists.
The public will then vote for their favourite doodle on the Doodle 4 Google website and the winners from each of the four categories (outlined above) will go forward to a Grand Final event where the overall winner will be announced.
The prizes for this year’s winning doodle will be a €5,000 scholarship towards the student’s third-level studies with the winning student’s school also receiving a €10,000 technology grant.
Each of the five category winners and their teachers will receive Chromebooks.
The deadline for entries is November 26, 2015 and entries can be submitted online.
For more information on the competition please visit the site HERE.
