Learn Tremble Me Timbers, The 2012 D4g Winner Is....

After 114,000 submissions as well as millions of your votes, mo grader Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisc. is this year’s U.S. of America Doodle 4 Google National Winner. His doodle “Pirate Times” volition live on featured on the U.S. of America Google homepage tomorrow, May 18.

Hoffman, who attends the Prairie School inward Racine, Wisc., responded to this year’s topic “If I could locomote inward fourth dimension I’d visit...” alongside a colorful depiction of his dream catch to an era filled alongside swashbucklers. There, he’d “sail a pirate ship looking for treasure, accept a colorful pet parrot as well as bask beautiful sunsets from deserted islands.” With his win, Dylan has come upward into about treasure of his own: a $30,000 college scholarship, a Chromebook reckoner as well as a $50,000 applied scientific discipline grant for his school. As an added bonus, Dylan’s doodle volition grace the front end of a exceptional edition of the Crayola 64-crayon box, available this fall.

After this year's record-breaking submissions, choosing the National Winner as well as the 4 National Finalists wasn’t an slowly decision. In add-on to selecting Dylan, millions of populace votes every bit good helped us cause upward one's heed the 4 National Finalists, each of which volition have a $5,000 college scholarship:

• Grades 4-5: Talia Mastalski, Grade 5, East Pike Elementary School, Indiana, Penn., for her doodle “Traveling to me.” Talia says, “When I intend of Google, I intend of a wormhole leading me to knowledge. If I could locomote inward time, I would catch a like wormhole into the hereafter to discovery out close ME.”
• Grades 6-7: Herman Wang, Grade 6, Suzanne Middle School, West Covina, Calif., for his doodle “Retro City.” Herman says, “If I could locomote inward time, I'd catch Retro City. H5N1 hereafter urban kernel made of robots as well as humans.”
• Grades 8-9: Susan Olvera, Grade 8, SOAR Alternative School, Lafayette, In., for her doodle “Traveling Back to the Future.” Susan says, “If I could locomote inward time, I'd locomote dorsum to the future. If at that spot is life on other planets, I believe we'd catch the natives every bit good every bit invent dissimilar ships as well as rockets for quicker transportation. With what nosotros accept accomplished currently, I believe the ‘future’ isn’t as well as therefore far away.”
• Grades 10-12: Cynthia Cheng, Grade 11, Edison High School, Edison, NJ, for her doodle “A World of Adventure.” Cynthia says, “If I could locomote inward time, I'd catch the historic menstruation of the Vikings. Though their tales of monsters may non accept been simply true, they were about of the greatest explorers inward history. It would live on a remarkable sense to percentage adventures as well as discovery novel lands alongside them.”

After the awards ceremony inward New York City today, all fifty of our State Winners volition unveil an exhibition of their artwork at the New York Public Library, where their doodles volition live on displayed from May 18-July 19. In addition, the artwork of all our State Finalists as well as Winners volition live on displayed at exhibitions inward their dwelling states across the province over the summer. Be certain to banking corporation tally out the local exhibition close you.

Thanks to all of yous who voted as well as helped us pick out this year's winner. Even to a greater extent than important, give thank yous you to all of the students who submitted entries. Keep on doodling as well as we’ll come across yous adjacent year!

Posted past times Marissa Mayer, VP, Product Management

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