4 winners named, including a BC student, in Doodle 4 Google contest

Google Canada has revealed the national winner and three grade group winners for this year’s Doodle 4 Google contest.

More than 12,000 students submitted doodles depicting the theme: “What I see for Canada’s future is…”

<who>Photo Credit: Google.ca</who>The top 4 entry from Faizaan Buttar of Surrey, BC.

Canadians voted more than 465,000 times in the contest, which eventually produced four grade group winners.

Out of those four, 11th-grader Jana Sofia Panem from Toronto was selected as the national grand prize winner for her doodle, “A Brighter Future.”

<who>Photo Credit: Google.ca</who>The grand prize winning entry from Jana Sofia Panem of Toronto

Sofia Panem’s doodle will be on the Google.ca homepage all day on Wednesday, June 14th, but that’s not all she gets.

She’s also received a $10,000 university scholarship and a $10,000 technology award for her school from Google.

<who>Photo Credit: Google.ca</who>The top 4 entry from Amélie Fostier from Jonquière

The three other winners, including one from B.C., will receive $5,000 technology awards for their schools and a Chromebook.

Those winners are Faizaan Buttar from Surrey, B.C., Wesley Babin from Lower Cloverdale, NB and Amélie Fostier from Jonquière, Quebec.

<who>Photo Credit: Google.ca</who>The top 4 entry from Wesley Babin of Lower Cloverdale

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