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Matthew Lei is at it again. For the third time, Lei is the Oregon winner of the annual Doodle for Google contest, where students compete to redesign the Google logo for a day. Lei, who attends Lincoln High School in Portland, has entered the competition every year since he was in third grade at Forest Park Elementary School, when his private art teacher Wanda Ng encouraged the budding doodler to give it a shot. He won Oregon’s state competition that year–and again as a sixth-grader at West… Source link

Peace, for Waverly Altis, is in pedaling to the park. It’s in the music of the wind, and the wafting smells of freshly cut grass and hot asphalt — in the late-spring, early-summer cotton strands floating past her face as she glides through the air on a park swing. Here is home for Altis. “It’s very relaxing,” said Altis, of De Soto. “Like you can almost just tune everything out.” So when a scholarship competition sponsored by Google asked her to draw her ideal way of taking care of… Source link

FREEPORT, Ill. (WIFR) – Freeport School District Student Amelia Winter is a finalist in Google’s national Doodle for Google contest. This contest is open to students in grades K-12 all around the country, with just one drawing picked for each state per category. Students are invited to create their own Google Doodle for the chance to have it featured on Google.com. Amelia is representing the Land of Lincoln in the K-3rd grade category. Amelia’s fantastic drawing was selected from… Source link

Public voting for the Doodle for Google Student Contest opens at 10 this morning. Incoming Post Falls High School sophomore Kaylin “Kyle” O’Halloran is the Idaho finalist. She is in the running to win a $30,000 college scholarship and a $50,000 tech package for her school. All 54 state and territorial Doodle winners will be eligible for a chance to move forward to be one of five national finalists. “I’m pretty nervous about it, but it’s… Source link

When Hill was a young comic in the 1970s, he refused to deign to racist stereotypes of Native Americans. Rather, his material addressed bigotry toward Native Americans throughout history, taking aim at White viewers, the forced displacement of indigenous people and even the harmful history of Christopher Columbus and Plymouth Rock Pilgrims. In 1977, 26-year-old Hill appeared on “The Richard Pryor Show,” the first time a Native American stand-up performed on a program that aired across the… Source link

Google often celebrates holidays and milestones with unique, themed drawings of their logo – so-called “Google Doodles.” Juneteenth happened to fall on Father’s Day this year, and the Google Doodle to celebrate it was created, fittingly, by a father-son duo.  Jerome and Jeromyah Jones, two artists based in Virginia, said they were inspired in part by the “commonalities we see during this year that the two holidays coincide.” The painting includes a man with a child on his… Source link

Black British composer, teacher and opera singer Amanda Aldridge is being remembered today as the latest Google Doodle celebrates her life and career.Google Doodles often change the classic Google logo to incorporate a historical figure or special occasion relating to a specific date. The Google image for Friday, June 17 features a pairing of Aldridge with a doodle of musical treble clefs on either side.The woman displayed is Aldridge, who is known for her work as a composer who… Source link

(CNN) — Google knows where to get its kicks… The search engine’s latest Google Doodle celebrates the historic cross-country highway Route 66. The artwork is an animated video composed of over 100 paintings and sketches by Google art director Matthew Cruickshank while on a road trip. Route 66 was built in 1926 and “made cross-country travel affordable for the first time,” says Google in a news release. The highway, which connects Chicago to Santa Monica, California, allowed displaced… Source link

This Earth Day, Google is dedicating its Doodle to how badly we’re messing up our beloved planet. It’s actually kind of a cool Doodle. Four different GIFs show time lapses of dramatic changes driven by climate change. From Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, you’ll see footage of bright corals losing their color under the stress of warmer waters. Corals are living creatures that get their color from algae in their tissues with which they have a symbiotic relationship. Under stress,… Source link

Happy Valentine’s Day 2022: Valentine’s Day is here, and so is Google’s adorable interactive Doodle to celebrate the day of love today, February 14. Every year people celebrate Valentine’s Day with their loved ones, and each year, Google shares a fun doodle to commemorate the festival. This year’s Google Doodle comes with loads of cuteness and fun. It features two love-stricken hamsters separated by a treacherous maze in the shape of Google’s logo. Your job is to solve the maze and help… Source link