Judging and Prizes

Judging criteria: Your doodle will be evaluated on the following criteria:

• Artistic merit - based on age, drawing skills and use of colour.
• Creativity - based on your representation of the theme and use of the Google logo.
• 'My India' communication - how well your concept of the theme is expressed.
• Supporting statement - how well you explained your vision of your doodle.

Groups: The competition is open to all students attending a school in India between classes 1 and 10. Doodles will be judged in the following three brackets:

• 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd standards
• 4^th, 5^th, and 6^th standards
• 7^th, 8^th, 9^th and 10^th standards

Judging Process:

600 Semi Finalists: The best 600 doodles from across the country will be chosen via our judging criteria in each of the three age group brackets. This means that each age bracket will be equally represented.

45 Finalists: A judging panel will choose 45 top doodles (15 from each age bracket) to become our finalists. These 45 top doodles will be displayed in a gallery on this website on October 21, 2009. These will then be made available to the Indian public who can vote for the doodles they like best in each age bracket.

Judging Panel: Our judging panel will include renowned cartoonist, N.Ponnappa, young internationally acclaimed artist Raghava KK., as well as faculty and students of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad <http://www.nid.edu/>, our Doodle 4 Google partner institute and one of India's foremost institutions in the field of design education.

Prizes: All 45 finalists will be invited to attend the final awards ceremony in November 2009. We will cover stay and travel expenses for all 45 finalists + one adult (teacher, parent, etc). In addition, all finalists will receive a Doodle 4 Google certificate and a Google goody bag.

Final Winner: After the public online vote across the three age brackets, the final winner will be decided by Google’s original doodler, Dennis Hwang. The final winner will be announced at an awards ceremony attended by the finalists and members of our judging panel.

Prizes: The final winner will have his/her doodle displayed on the Google India homepage on November 14^th 2009. He/she will also win a laptop! Finally, the winner's school will also be awarded a technology grant of Rs.1,00,000.