I’ll be the majority of us have never heard of Sabrina Brady, but everyone on the Google Doodle team has. In 2013, she submitted a doodle to the annual Doodle 4 Google contest under the theme “My Best Day Ever…” and this is what she sent in.
The caption says it all. Sabrina sent in this drawing, called “Coming Home” as an emotional representation of what she went through when her Dad finally came home after his tour of duty in Iraq.
In an interview with Business Insider, the head of Google Doodle Ryan Germick said this:
“It was a really touching Doodle and tears were just pouring out of everyone’s eyes…this is not about having the most incredible rendering skills and being able to draw super 3D effects…this is about being able to express your humanity and your individual interests and passions through a piece of artwork.”
Google Doodle’s annual contest in 2013 received about 130,000 submissions, of which Sabrina Brady’s picture was chosen to win the first prize.
Doodle 4 Google 2016
This year’s theme for Doodle 4 Google is “What I See For The Future…”, and entries will be accepted until December 2, 2016 at 12:00pm PST. Prizes and terms are different for each country, and for the United States, this is what Google plans on giving the winner:
A $30,000 college scholarship
A $50,000 Google for Education Technology Award for their school or non-profit organization
A trip to the Google Headquarters in California
A Chromebook
An Android tablet
The contest is open for all K-12 students in the United States. Judges haven’t been announced yet, but Google typically brings in well-known personalities such as famous cartoonists and artists to judge the contest.
Google Doodle’s History
Google Doodle has an interesting history. It started way back in 1998 when Google’s founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page put a stick figure behind the second ‘o’ in the word ‘Google’ on the search page to show that they were ‘out of office’ to attend a music and art festival. It was a hit of sorts, so the next Thanksgiving had a Turkey and 1999 Halloween saw two pumpkins replace the ‘o’s in Google.
After doing this for major festivals over a two-year period Google recruited webmaster Dennis Hwang as Chief Doodler. The doodles became more frequent after this, and they soon started doing it for more holidays and even birthdays of famous people like Picasso and Albert Einstein.
Today Google Doodle is an entire department within Google, and is responsible for all doodles that appear on Google’s local search pages across the world. Each country celebrates its own events, and the doodles form a sort of annual collage of special local holidays and happenings.
Here are 4 examples from Google’s extensive collection of Doodles:
The Original Burning Man Festival Doodle by Sergei Brin and Larry Page
First Human in Space
Les Paul – Guitarist and Inventor
Pac Man!
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