An Alberta high school student is one of the finalists of Doodle 4 Google’s latest national competition.
Grade 12 student Emma Diederichs is one of 12 Canadian students and the only one from Alberta to be selected for the final of the competition, which invites students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 to redesign the Google logo.
“I didn’t know what my chances were since it’s a national competition so I didn’t know if I had a chance or not, but I worked quite a few hours on it, and then when I found out I was a finalist I was very excited,” Diederichs said.
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Diederichs attends Strathcona Christian Academy in Sherwood Park and is one of three finalists in the Grade 10-12 category.
Her doodle is titled “Diverse Education for a Diverse Generation.”
The caption below her Doodle reads,”What I see for Canada’s future is a more accepting school environment nationwide, offering equitable opportunity to all peoples, regardless of location, wealth, race, ability, religion, gender or learning strategy.”
“What really inspired me was the municipal youth council that I’m on here in Sherwood Park,” Diederichs said.
“I’ve met a lot of people through the youth council, a lot of diverse people that I wouldn’t have really otherwise met at SCA and it just really struck me as inspirational — how different we are and how that entailed different expectations for what we expected from both our education and our schools.”
Canadians can vote for their favourite doodle until June 2.
The winner will have their artwork featured on Google.ca for a day and win a $10,000 university scholarship.
“I hope it goes well. We’ll see what happens,” Diederichs said.