Five Meath children need votes in Doodle final
There are five Meath pupils in the 2017 Doodle 4 Google competition. Voting to crown the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition opened on Tuesday 7th February and the public will have just two weeks to cast their votes with the poll closing on Tuesday 21st February. Over 4,200 students across the country picked up their pens, pencils and crayons to enter this year’s competition with 75 finalists being shortlisted.
This year, students were asked to design a Doodle based on the theme of ‘If I could create anything it would be…’ with the winning Doodle appearing on the Google homepage in April.
The following students are among 75 regional finalists in with a chance of winning the competition:
• Louise Feighery, Dunboyne JPS, Group 2
• Niall Murray, Gaelscoil an Bhradáin Fheasa, Group 2
• Michaela Gough, Rathmore National School, Group 3
• Abbie Walker, O'Growney National School, Group 3
• Abigail Connell, Stackallen National School, Group 3
A panel of judges had the difficult task of selecting the 75 finalists from the thousands of entries that were received, the panel included John McDaid Creative Director of Dog Ears, a children’s media company based in Derry who make TV, apps, books and events for kids, Aoife Doyle Director and Co-founder of Pink Kong studios which is an award winning Dublin based animation studio that creates branded animated entertainment for TV, games, film and Advertising Houses and Dr Andreas Bandelli, CEO of Science Gallery International.
Members of the public can vote from February 7th for their favourite Doodle on https://doodles.google.ie/d4g/. Voting will close at midnight on 21st February. The five most popular doodles, one from each age category, will go forward to the grand final on April 3rd where the overall winner will be announced.
The winner will also receive a €5,000 scholarship towards their third-level studies, a Chromebook, and a €10,000 technology grant for their school. Each of the five class group winners and their teachers will also win a Chromebook each.
For more information and to vote for the winning doodles go to: https://doodles.google.ie/d4g/
Below - the five doodles in the finals.