CALL FOR ENTRIES: December 31st deadline looms for Canada's first-ever Doodle 4 Google competition

Winner will have their doodle featured on Google homepage and receive $20,000 in grant and scholarship prizes

TORONTO, Dec. 3, 2013 /CNW/ - With thousands of dollars in prizes on the line for kids and students across the country, Google Canada has issued a last call for entries for the first-ever Doodle 4 Google contest. K-12 students have until December 31, 2013 to design a doodle for the Google Canada homepage on the theme, "If I could invent anything, I would invent…"

The national winner will receive a $10,000 scholarship, a $10,000 grant for their school and be featured in a Royal Ontario Museum special exhibit in March 2014.

A panel of guest judges, including astronaut Chris Hadfield and actress Karine Vanasse, will select twenty five regional winners. The 25 finalists will receive a trip to Toronto, where five regional winners will be named and the first place winning doodle will be announced alongside the launch of the ROM exhibit.

Interested students, parents and teachers can visit www.google.ca/doodle4google for contest rules and to download entry forms.

SOURCE: Google Canada

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Wendy Bairos
Communications and Public Affairs Manager
Google Canada
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