Google had requested young people aged between 5-16 across the UK to design their Google Doodle. This year Google had requested to design a logo based on the idea “My Community”. This is the third year the competition was held. Now, its your turn to chose the best Doodle among the top chosen ones.

Google Doodle competition has created a lot of interest among young people especially in schools. Last year more than 60,000 doodles were created based on the theme, “My Future”. The winning Doodle was displayed on Google UK home page for a day which was viewed by 18 million people.

Visiting Google’s Doodle, you would be requested to vote for the best Doodle under ages 5-7, 7-11, 11-14 and 14-16. Among 70,000 doodles, 48 were selected by the judging panel for voting.

The winning doodle will be used on the UK Google homepage on 1st October.

Google displayed an interesting logo on their Google.co.uk domain. The logo consisted of an graphic containing light sticks making a ray of design forming the word ‘Google’.

There has been interesting presentations by Google of its logo through the recent years. However, this logo was far different from other variations.

A list of familiar Google logos is displayed here.

Google launched a competition for school kids in United States. School children of any age can participate in this competition. The children are asked to design a Google Logo for the question, “What If…?”. The winner of Doodle for Google competition would be presented a $10,000 college scholarship and also a $25,000 technology grant where the child is studying.

The winning logo would be displayed in Google homepage on May 22, 2008.

Google has informed that the Doodle 4 Google competition is open for students in K-12 in United States. The doodles by the school students would be judged by the creativity, representation of the theme and artistic merit. The finalists across all age groups would be selected by independent judges and Google employees. The final four would be selected by the public through an online poll.

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