How is the contest judged?
Students’ doodles will be judged on artistic merit, creativity, representation of the theme, and other criteria. A panel of independent judges will select the top doodles across grade groups, from which the public will help select the final four. The national winner will then be selected by Google and announced at an event held at the Google New York Office on May 20, 2009. • Submissions will be divided into four grade groups (Kindergarten – Grade 3, Grade 4 – Grade 6, Grade 7 – Grade 9, and Grade 10 – Grade 12) for judging. There will be four stages of judging. At the State level, up to 400 State Finalists (100 per grade group; 2 from each state) will be selected by a panel of regional judges including Googlers, educators and the press. Entries from the the District of Columbia will be judged with the state of Maryland. • At the Regional Level, 40 Regional Winners (10 per grade group; 1 from each region) will be selected from the pool of up to 400 State Finalists by the panel of regio
