{"id":5088,"date":"2012-05-16T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T11:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=5088"},"modified":"2015-12-26T23:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T04:43:06","slug":"google-goes-to-the-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/05\/google-goes-to-the-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Goes to the Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to give Google kudos for getting kids involved in their doodles. One of the finalists from their national search for their <a title=\"Doodle for Google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodle4google\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doodle for Google<\/a> contest is from Alexandria, VA. Excellent! Can&#8217;t help but give my support to my local town and to Eileen Powell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Google-Doodle_artwk_Eileen-Powell_AIE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5090\" title=\"Google-Doodle_artwk_Eileen Powell_AIE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Google-Doodle_artwk_Eileen-Powell_AIE.jpg\" alt=\"Google-Doodle_artwork by Eileen Powell, as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced this Friday, May 18th &#8212;\u00a0 <a title=\"Doodle for Google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodle4google\/judges.html\" target=\"_blank\">judged<\/a> by the likes of Katy Perry, Jordin Sparks and Mo Williams among others&#8230;You can find <a title=\"Doodle for Google\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodle4google\/finalists.html#d=d2-9\" target=\"_blank\">Eileen&#8217;s<\/a> and all the state finalists&#8217; artwork here:\u00a0<a title=\"Doodle for Google state finalists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodle4google\/finalists.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/doodle4google\/finalists.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These designs are so clever.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t get this post together in time to announce before the voting had closed but check it out for the winner. It&#8217;s a cool concept from Google to get budding artistic children interested in the arts. Who knows, <a title=\"Previous post on Google's logo themed artwork\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/01\/googles-art-in-miniature\/\" target=\"_blank\">maybe their current artist<\/a>, who I did this post on, can take a break every now and then.<\/p>\n<p>The themes are chosen by the most clever conceptualization of the Google Logo that expresses the visual answer to this question, &#8220;If I could travel in time, I&#8217;d visit&#8230;&#8221; Eileen&#8217;s theme work is the 1970&#8217;s. I like her rendition of the fingers making the peace sign and that daisy &#8220;o&#8221; flower is so groovy. Good luck!!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed this year&#8217;s contest, you can enter next year and if you&#8217;re out of school and just love to doodle, here&#8217;s what Google says about becoming a &#8220;Googler:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Googlers and fans from around the world suggest the topics from which the doodle team doodles (you can suggest one too at <strong>proposals@google.com<\/strong>).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>You never know what doodle might come next but we\u2019re particularly fond of science, innovation, creativity, and fun. We also love to celebrate cultures from all around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0But there is a pretty darn good monetary reason to enter if you can:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u2022 Each of the other<strong> four National Finalists<\/strong> will win a <strong>$5,000 college scholarship<\/strong> to be used at the school of their choice, a trip to New York for the final event on May 17, 2012,\u00a0 a Wacom digital design tablet, and a t-shirt printed with their doodle on it. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u2022 <strong>The National Winner<\/strong> will have his or her doodle featured on the U.S. Google.com homepage. He or she will be awarded a <strong>$30,000 college scholarship<\/strong> to be used at the school of his or her choice, a trip to New York for an event on May 17, 2012, a Google Chromebook computer, a Wacom digital design tablet, and a t-shirt printed with his or her doodle on it. We&#8217;ll also <strong>award the winner&#8217;s full time school a $50,000 technology grant<\/strong> towards the establishment or improvement of a computer lab or technology programming.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Is Everywhere gives a shout out to vote for the local contestant who&#8217;s art work was chosen as a finalist in the Doodle for Google&#8217;s logo theme contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,92,15,169],"tags":[19,4,2068,2069,2070],"class_list":["post-5088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-illustration","category-opportunities","tag-alexandria-va","tag-art-is-everywhere","tag-doodle-for-google-contest","tag-eileen-powell","tag-google-logo-artwork"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google Goes to the Grades<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Google Goes to the Grades on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/05\/google-goes-to-the-grades\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google Goes to the Grades\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Google Goes to the Grades on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2012\/05\/google-goes-to-the-grades\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-05-16T11:36:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T04:43:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Google-Doodle_artwk_Eileen-Powell_AIE.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/google-goes-to-the-grades\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/google-goes-to-the-grades\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Google Goes to the Grades\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-05-16T11:36:19+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T04:43:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/google-goes-to-the-grades\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":459,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/google-goes-to-the-grades\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/Google-Doodle_artwk_Eileen-Powell_AIE.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Alexandria VA\",\"Art is Everywhere\",\"Doodle for Google contest\",\"Eileen Powell\",\"Google logo artwork\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Artists\",\"Celebrations &amp; 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