Congratulations, Grace (Suryung) Moon, Doodle 4 Google National Winner!
Grace (Suryung) Moon, a 6th grader from California, is the Doodle 4 Google national winner. Her doodle, "Up in the Clouds" replaced the official Google logo at about 11:10 pm PDT on May 21. It remains on the site for 24 hours.It is a picture of a new world in the sky "clean and fresh, and people are social and enlightened." Visionary Grace imagines a world of one big family, sustained by the sun’s warmth, love and everyone’s day is brightened.
In this simple but evocative work, Grace inspires us to wake up to our capacity to meet our social, economic, political and environmental challenges. The sun symbolizes the extraordinary spiritual power that keeps us and our world going.
An awards ceremony was held at Googleplex in Mountain View, CA., yesterday in honor of Grace and three national finalists -- Spencer Norton of Ashbrook Elementary School, Lumberton, NJ, Rebecca Olene of Pioneer Ridge Freshmen Center, Carver, Minnesota, and Gabriel Kitzman of Elbert School Dist. #200, Kiowa, Colorado.
The finalists will each receive a laptop. Grace will be awarded a $10,000 college scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for the Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley she attends.
Congratulations Grace! Congratulations to all the finalists! Congratulations to all the participants! May the sun brighten up your day, our world, today and always.
