GHANA: Two win Doodle4Google prize

  1. Posted on Monday 13 June 2011 - 13:13
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    Kent Mensah, AfricaNews editor in Accra, Ghana
    The 2011 Doodle4Google prize in Ghana goes to Nil Carreras Del Peso, of French School, and Nana Abena Asabea Ametepe, of Golden Age school. The winning Doodles - created around the theme of 'My Ghana' - will be displayed on the Google Ghana homepage for 24 hours on Wednesday 15th June and Thursday 16th June 2011 respectively, where they will be viewed by millions of people.
    Doodle4Google winners Abena and Del
    Del Peso, winner of the 9-11 age group competition, received a Kindle, while Ametepe, who took the prize for the 12-14 age group, had a laptop. The schools of both winners will get a US$ 2,000 technology grant.

    Ametepe told Africanews.com the award, being her first national laurel, has motivated her to compete in more of such prestigious competitions at her level. “I am nervous, but excited to have come this far. I feel really good,” the form one lawyer or architect hopeful said.

    According to Google, this year’s competition received a record number of entries: a 133% increase on last year. The winners beat off strong competition in their respective age categories, and as well as designing Doodles around the local theme, all entrants also provided a supporting statement explaining their design choice.

    The competition was judged by a panel of judges including Google Ghana Country Lead Estelle Akofio-Sowah and a team of Googlers, who selected the finalists based on artistic merit, creativity and the representation of this year’s theme.

    Akofio-Sowah was delighted with the level of participation and the work quality submitted by the children.

    “Judging this year’s Doodle4Google competition was an absolute pleasure,” she said. “The standard of entries was outstanding -- there's clearly a huge amount of pride and excitement among young people in Ghana. The fact that we received more than double the number of entries from last year’s competition, demonstrates that children, when encouraged, are willing and able to rise to a challenge. The future of Ghana in the hands of these young people, is clearly bright.”

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