May 5, 2011 - 11:26 AMT
U.S. Doodle 4 Google contest voting starts

The U.S. Doodle 4 Google contest voting starts, according to The Official Google Blog.

“This year we had a record number of submissions more than 107,000 from talented student artists from every state across the country. We were amazed and delighted by not only the quantity of submissions but the caliber of this year’s entries,” it said.

Doodle team, volunteer Googlers helped Google to determine the 40 Regional Finalists. From now until May 13 at 11:59 p.m. PDT, people can cast their online votes for favorite Regional Finalist’s doodle (one vote for each of the four grade groups).

On May 19, Google will announce the national winner at awards ceremony in New York City.

The winner will receive a $15,000 college scholarship and $25,000 towards a new computer lab for his or her school, and the winning design will appear on google.com on Friday, May 20.

All of the top 40 Regional Finalists will also have their work publicly displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at SFMOMA in San Francisco.