Doodle 4 Google, also stylized Doodle4Google, is an annual competition in various countries, held by Google, to have children create a logo that will be featured on the local Google homepage as a doodle. Submissions from all students in U.S. schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade (including homeschoolers) are accepted in the contest. Parents/Educators are required to submit doodles for their students. The winner's doodle appeared on the Google homepage on June 10, 2014, and also receive a $30,000 scholarship to the college of their choice, a T-shirt with their doodle on it, a Google Chromebook, Wacom digital design tablet, and a $5,000 technology grant of tablets or Chromebooks towards their school. Google features logos on their homepage, usually for public holidays. In the past, events such as the beginning of spring, the anniversary of understanding DNA, or the invention of the laser have been celebrated. The original Google "doodle" was in 1998 when Sergey Brin and Lawrence E. Page were attending the Burning Man Festival, to show that they were out of the office and unable to help if the systems were to crash. The winner's doodle appeared on the Google homepage on June 10, 2014, and also receive a $30,000 scholarship to the college of their choice, a T-shirt with their doodle on it, a Google Chromebook, Wacom digital design tablet, and a $5,000 technology grant of tablets or Chromebooks towards their school.
