Google celebrates Children's Day with the Doodle 4 Google winning entry - IBNLive

New Delhi: Celebrating Children's Day, Google today put a doodle on its homepage, which has been designed by a class 10 student Gayatri Ketharaman from Pune for the fifth edition of Doodle 4 Google competition with the theme celebrating Indian women. Each letter of the doodle titled 'Sky's The Limit for Indian Women' depicts a trait of the Indian Woman.

Doodle4Google (D4G) is an annual competition from the Internet giant for students of 1-10 grade who are invited to design the Google Doodle to celebrate Children s Day. A depiction using each letter of Google to portray various facets of Indian woman - graceful, elegant, adept at balancing work and home and go-getter - by a school girl in Pune has been adjudged the national winner of Doodle4Google contest.

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Doodles are known as the decorative changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists and scientists.

Each letter of the doodle titled 'Sky's The Limit for Indian Women' depicts a trait of the Indian Woman.

The company received over 1.5 lakh entries, from more than 1,500 schools across 100 cities. The final 12 doodles were shortlisted and put up for online voting.

Among other categories, the doodle made by Madhuram Vatsal of Lucknow, showing all forms of Indian women - a learner, a warrior, a goddess, a dancer, a scholar and a lover of jewellery -- was adjudged best in the category 1 (class 1-3).

The doodle titled 'Women Are Future, Empower Them Better' won in the category 2 (class 4-6), while the same on 'Indian Women Leading Our Country' won in the category 3(Class 7- 10).

All the finalists will receive a Google Goodie bag and an Acer C720 Chromebook.

(With inputs from PTI)

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