Google celebrates Children’s Day with a ‘for the children by the children’ doodle

Search engine giant Google has once again given its logo a twist to celebrate a national festival. Google logo for Children’s Day on Monday is a beautiful spring like doodle designed by a Pune school girl as part of Doodle 4 Google competition organised by the company in India in November.  

The winner of the doodle competition, Anvita Prashant Telang, participated in the Group 2 (Class 4 to 6) and studies in Vibgyor High School, Balewadi, Pune. 

How the winner is selected:

Children across India sent their entries to Google. The entries are divided into three groups Group 1 comprising students from Class 1 to 3; Group 2 with students from Class 4 to 6; and Group 3 with students from Class 7 to 10. 

These entries went through two rounds of judging, first by a group of art schools judges, and then by Google’s  national jury comprising of Cartoonist Ajit Ninan, Art Director Savio Mascarenhas, Creative Wizard Rob and Google’s Chief Doodler Ryan Germick. 

Details of finalist were then put on official website for online voting between November 1 and 10.Basis your votes and the ranking by our jury, the national winner was selected from the 12 finalists. 

The winning doodle is now on the google.co.in homepage on November 14, for Children’s Day.