7th grader Ryan Shea being interviewed by several local media news outlets.
A talented student in Lakewood could soon have his art on the Google homepage for hundreds of millions to see! On April 29, OnSight worked with Google to announce and publicize the Colorado Winner of its seventh annual Doodle 4 Google Contest.
This year’s contest was open to K-12 students across the United States to redesign the Google logo inspired by the theme “If I could invent one thing to make the world a better place…”
Ryan Shea, a 7th-grader from Creighton Middle School in Lakewood was named the Colorado State Winner for his doodle, “The Universal Nexus”, depicting a connection that would allow humans to explore the universe and create junctions between our past, present, and future.
Ryan’s doodle was selected from the tens of thousands of entries received this year and the students’ amazing ideas ranged from water purification to advanced robotics and nutrition solutions.
To help their favorites succeed, everyone across the USA can vote for their favorite doodle from the 50 state winners. Voting will be open from April 29 to May 9 on this site: http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html, and the public vote will determine the five national finalists (one in each grade group).
Google will announce these five national finalists and one of them as the national winner on May 21 at an awards ceremony at its headquarters in Mountain View, California, which all 50 state winners will be invited to.
The winning student will work with Google’s team of professional doodlers to animate their doodle — for the first time ever! The animated doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage on June 9. The winner will also take home a $30,000 college scholarship and his or her school will receive a $50,000 Google for Education grant toward the establishment and improvement of a computer lab or technology program.
Vote for Colorado’s winning entry!
On hand, along with several hundred enthusiastic Creighton middle-schoolers, were Lakewood Mayor Bob Murphy, school principal Nick Kemmer, and Jefferson County School Board President Ken Witt.
Ryan spoke a few words to the supportive audience, and then stuck around to give several interviews to local media outlets.
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