Doodle for Google Contest 2019: Submission Deadline Monday, How to Enter, How Many Winners Are Announced?

The deadline for the Doodle for Google contest arrived Monday. Anyone in grades K through 12 who wanted to participate had to have their doodles in by 8 p.m. PT Monday. The competition was announced in early January with a segment on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Kermit the Frog helped Fallon announce the competition and the theme for the year, "When I grow up, I hope..." Students who submit are judged on their artistic merit, the creativity including the representation of the theme and the letter of "Google" and how well they express the theme in the art and in their statement, said Google. Entry forms for the contest are available online for those looking to take part in the competition. That form can either be printed out and filled out or digitally downloaded. One original doodle will be considered from each individual student, though teachers can submit multiple doodles on behalf of their students. Mailed doodles and entry forms have to be received by March 18 at 9 p.m. PT so any last-minute participants have to enter online. The full rules are available online. The doodle can be created with any materials the student wants but it has to be scanned or photographed in high resolution to submit it online or created right in the entry form on the Google site. The students have to submit the doodle along with the entry form and with their doodle description. That description should explain the doodle and how it connects to the overall theme. Submissions are broken down into five groups based on grade, those groups are K through third, fourth and fifth, sixth and seventh, eighth and ninth and grades 10, 11 and 12. In the first round of finals, 53 doodles are chosen, 10 or more winners for each grade group, according to Google. From there, five national finalists are chosen and then the national winner is chosen from that group of five. The national winner has their work featured on the Google homepage for a day as the day's doodle. They also win $30,000 in college scholarship money, $50,000 in technology for their school or non-profit of their choice, a chance to go to the Google headquarters, and some Google swag and hardware. The five national finalists also win some scholarship money and a trip to Google along with some swag. The 53 state and territory winners get an assembly from Google and some swag and hardware.