In July we announced our latest Doodle 4 Google competition, in which we asked school students across Australia to draw their own version of the Google logo, inspired by the theme “My Future Australia.”
Now, 4500 doodles later, we can announce the winning doodle!
Congratulations to Timothy Winkels of Padua College Mornington in Victoria, whose winning doodle displayed his hope that a future Australia will have more National Parks and a cleaner, protected environment. “Sometimes nature is such a good refuge that I escape my own self,” wrote Tim about his work. “The environment saves me, so I am responsible enough to save it.”
His doodle was chosen by the original Google doodler Dennis Hwang, who appreciated the doodle’s skill and creativity, as well as the optimistic message and tone. “The longer you look at it, the more things you discover within it, which is not always easy to pull off,” he said.
Timothy’s doodle will be featured on google.com.au early next year.
Congratulations to Timothy Winkels of Padua College Mornington in Victoria, whose winning doodle displayed his hope that a future Australia will have more National Parks and a cleaner, protected environment. “Sometimes nature is such a good refuge that I escape my own self,” wrote Tim about his work. “The environment saves me, so I am responsible enough to save it.”
His doodle was chosen by the original Google doodler Dennis Hwang, who appreciated the doodle’s skill and creativity, as well as the optimistic message and tone. “The longer you look at it, the more things you discover within it, which is not always easy to pull off,” he said.
Timothy’s doodle will be featured on google.com.au early next year.
Three of the age group winners spent yesterday at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Damian, Timothy and Christina were given a behind-the-scenes tour of the of the gallery and exhibitions and had their very own special portrait taken by the gallery’s multimedia expert and resident photographer Mark Mohell. The young doodlers also saw their work in a special digital display of the 32 doodle state and territory winners.
The day was not without drama when one of our age group winners, Ineka, missed the morning tour due to an earlier emergency appendectomy. But proving that you can’t keep a good doodler down, she came directly from hospital to accept her trophy in the afternoon. The NPG will arrange her own personal tour of the gallery when she’s up and about.
Thank you to all our thousands of doodlers from across Australia, and look out for Timothy’s doodle on our homepage.
Posted by Leticia Lentini, Event Marketing Manager, Google Australia.
