Annie Coyle, a 15-year-old student from Letterkenny, has just been announced as the winner of this year’s Doodle 4 Google competition for her doodle that has been inspired by her love of all things aeronautical.
Her doodle will grace the Google Ireland homepage tomorrow as a stylised Google logo.
Annie, a student at St Bernadette’s Special School in Letterkenny, was presented with the overall prize by Google doodler Kevin Laughlin at Google’s Dublin HQ this afternoon.
Laughlin, who works at Google’s offices in Mountain View, California, is one of the creative forces behind Google’s doodles, including the recent interactive doodle inspired by the late Douglas Adams, the creator of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy multimedia series.
Laughlin presented Annie with a Chromebook and a €5,000 scholarship to go towards her further studies. Annie’s school will also get a €10,000 technology grant from Google.
For this year’s Doodle 4 Doodle competition, students were tasked with creating a doodle based on their favourite inventions. Annie’s winning doodle was inspired by airplanes, with her doodle transforming the Google logo into a jumbo jet.
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