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Doodle for Google Scholarship
The Doodle for Google Scholarship is open to students in kindergarten to 12th grade!
People often ask me when their students should start applying for college scholarships.
Well, how about kindergarten?
The Doodle for Google Scholarship is a fantastic opportunity for creative students, so check out all the details and pass this information along to your kids!
Doodle for Google is an annual art contest open to U.S. students in grades K-12. Students are invited to create their own Google Doodle for the chance to have it featured on Google.com, as well as win a scholarship and a tech package for their school.
HOW IT WORKS
Students may create a Doodle using any visual art medium or materials. However, please note that Doodles will be reviewed and scanned in a two-dimensional (2D) format. If students create a 3-dimensional (3D) Doodle, make sure to take a clear photograph and enter the photograph rather than the original. Consider different mediums of art:
- Paint, pencils, crayons, markers, chalk, pastels, charcoal, oil pastels
- Clay, building blocks, found objects (rocks, paper, plants, etc)
- Digital art
Students submit a doodle that represents the theme, showcasing the famous GOOGLE image we see when using the Google search engine.
Doodles are judged based on:
Artistic merit: Skill in applying the chosen art form, based on age-appropriate technical or expressive qualities.
Creativity: Representation of the contest theme, use of the letters in the Google logo, and uniqueness of approach.
Theme communication: How well the contest theme is expressed in both the artwork and written description.
The theme for the 2025 Doodle for Google Scholarship: My superpower is…
Take a look at a few past winners to get an idea of what a “Doodle for Google” is all about:
Doodles are meant to surprise and delight people when they visit Google.com. Past Doodles have celebrated some of the most brilliant, talented, and passionate people throughout history. The Doodle for Google contest offers students K-12 an opportunity to display their own Doodle creativity on Google.com and win some awesome prizes while doing it!
APPLYING GUIDELINES
- Open to students in grades K-12, including homeschooled students and children of U.S. service persons serving abroad
- Parents, teachers, nonprofits, and after-school programs are welcome to enter artwork on behalf of students in K-12.
- Parents and teachers can mail the completed entry form or submit it online as a .png or .jpg file.
- Award Amounts: $10,000 to $45,000, plus a $50,000 technology package for the winner’s school
- NO financial need requirement
- NO ACT/SAT or GPA is required
- Applications may be submitted online or mailed in
- Deadline: December 3
SMART TIP: Be sure to read Crucial Tips for Submitting Online Scholarship Applications and use the SMART applying strategies found in the How to Win College Scholarships ebooks, especially for mailed-in applications.
Open to High School Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors! APPLY NOW HERE
Don’t forget to write a description of the doodle in 50 words or fewer, answering “My superpower is…” and give your response a catchy and creative title.
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Monica Matthews is the author of How to Win College Scholarships. She helped her own son win over $100,000 in college scholarships and now shares her expertise with other parents and their students. She truly has “been there, done that” in regard to helping parents and students navigate the scholarship process.
Her method of helping students in finding college scholarships, writing unique and compelling scholarship essays, creating amazing scholarship application packets, and more have taught desperate parents to help their own students win thousands of scholarship dollars. She teaches them how to apply S.M.A.R.T. with outstanding results.
Monica’s scholarship tips have been featured on many prominent websites, and she has been dubbed the “Go-To” expert on college scholarships.
Can you please help find scholarship opportunities for elementary kids? My kid is on spectrum and attends private Montessori school who does not participate in GOAL program hence looking out for scholarship opportunities for tuition support.
Hi, Rooma. You can find a list of scholarships open to students 13 and younger right HERE, but they are for college, and not private school tuition.