Google Rewards School Kids
By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri
Google Ghana has announced ten year-old Nil Carreras Del Peso and twelve year-old Nana Abena Asabea Ametepe as winners of the second edition of the Doodle for Google competition in Accra.
Nil Carreras Del Peso from the French received a kindle for winning the 9-11 age group competition while Nana Abena Asabea Ametepe from the Golden Age School received a laptop as her prize for wining the 12-14 age group.
The winners will also have their doodles on the home page of Google Ghana on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th June respectively for the whole day.
The schools of the winners were also rewarded with a USD 2000 technology grant each.
The winners beating off strong competition in their respective age categories designed doodles around the Google logo based on the theme, “My Ghana” with supporting statement explaining their design choice.
The doodles were judged by a panel of judges who selected the finalist based on artistic merit, creativity and the representation of this year’s theme.
Commenting on the competition, Estelle Akofio-sowah one of the judges and Google Ghana Country lead said that this year’s competition received a record number of entries, “a record 133% increase on last year.”
She elaborates, ‘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 the challenge.”
She further explained that the standard of entries was outstanding as it clearly showed a huge amount of pride and excitement among the young people in Ghana.
The future of Ghana in the hands of these young people is clearly bright”, she affirmed.