By Erin Adler, Star Tribune
Hundreds of juniors wearing Google t-shirts flooded the auditorium at Burnsville High SchoolTuesday morning, but the reason for the impromptu assembly was a mystery.
Junior from Burnsville High School, Paul Nong was named Minnesota’s winner of the 2014 “Doodle 4 Google” contest. Photo from Star Tribune.
After a half-hour presentation on the magic of Google by two company employees, they learned why they were celebrating: Junior Paul Nong was named Minnesota’s winner of the 2014 “Doodle 4 Google” contest.
Nong will fly to Google’s headquarters in California, all expenses paid, on May 21 to find out if his drawing, titled “The Dream Machine,” makes it into the top five nationally.
The winning illustration will be featured on the Google homepage as one of their highly-recognizable Google Doodles.
“I was really nervous and I thought it was all a bit too much, because I haven’t even won anything yet,” said Nong. “If I make it to the top five, I’ll be happy.”
His entry, chosen from more than 100,000, was done in colored pencil and charcoal and features two detailed silhouettes of people sleeping on each end. In the middle are hot air balloons, people flying through the air and ribbons of color. He then manipulated the drawing, which took nine hours to create, using a computer program.
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