--- title: Google: Enter Doodle Contest For Original Homepage Art description: Google is bringing back its Google Doodle art contest, where K-12 students can submit art to be the Google homepage logo for the day. canonical: https://time.com/4493654/google-doodle-art-contest/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-14T18:19:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:33.514Z og:title: How Your Art Could Be Google's Homepage for the Day og:description: If you're in K - 12, that is og:url: https://time.com/4493654/google-doodle-art-contest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdf0192614c950d3a/6988a609cd1bbac2c570250e/google-doodle-is-back.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Wed. 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(Photo by John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) Portland Press Herald—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 14, 2016 6:19 PM UTC Google has brought back its popular “Doodle 4 Google” contest, where students in grades K-12 can submit their original art work (in any medium, naturally) to be featured as the homepage logo for the Internet behemoth. According to Google’s official blog, this year’s theme centers around “What I see for the future…” and will be selected by a panel of judges that will include the Google’s own Google Doodlers. In addition to the honor and glory of having their art on the homepage, the national winner will receive $30k towards a college scholarship, $50k for their school to spend on technology, and the chance to work with the Doodle team at the Google home base in Mountain View, CA. 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