Google has crowned 11-year-old Audrey Zhang as the winner of its Google Doodle competition, with the fifth grader’s entry beating 100,000 other submissions.
Zhang won the opportunity to have her artwork featured as the Google Doodle for the search engine’s US homepage, along with rewarding her $30,000 college scholarship, a $50,000 Google for Educatiion technology grant for her school and a $20,000 donation in her name to charity:water.
50 state winners were invited to Google’s headquarters in California, where Zhang was announced as the nationwide winner of the contest. The theme of the competition was inventions, and Zhang’s creative solution to producing clean water caught the eye of Google, who decided to donate to charity:water, an organization that provides clean water to schools in Bangladesh.
For the first time in the annual Doodle 4 Google competition’s history, Google worked alongside Zhang to animate the Doodle before it was featured on the homepage.
