Doodle 4 Google 2015/2016 - “My Afrocentric life” by Akilah Johnson, Washington, DC

Doodle 4 Google, also stylized Doodle4Google, is an annual competition held by Google to have children create a logo that will be featured on the Google homepage.


Google features logos on their homepage, usually for public holidays.^[1] In the past, events such as the beginning of spring, the anniversary of understanding DNA, or the invention of the laser have been celebrated.^[2] The original Google "doodle" was in 1999 when Sergey Brin and Lawrence E. Page were attending the Burning Man Festival, to show that they were away if the systems were to crash.^[3]
Submissions from all students in U.S. schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade (including homeschoolers) are accepted in the contest. Teachers are required to submit doodles for their students