A nine-year-old boy from Lower Coverdale, N.B., is heading to Toronto Tuesday in the hopes his entry for the Doodle for Google competition gives him the win.
Wesley Babin was one of 12 finalists in the nationwide contest which featured entries from kindergarten to Grade 12.
The submissions were divided up into four grade groups — kindergarten to Grade 3, Grade 4-6, Grade 7-9 and Grade 10-12 — and a winner was chosen from each group. Babin was told he was the winner of the Grade 4-6 group prior to Monday.
However, the national winner of the competition — chosen from one of the grade group winners — will get the doodle they designed published on google.ca on June 14, as well as a $10,000 scholarship and a $10,000 technology award for their school.
Even if Babin does not take home the national prize, he will still return with a $5,000 technology award for his school being the grade group winner.
The competition had students redesign the Google logo for Canada’s 150th birthday with the theme centred on the question, “What I see for Canada’s future is…”
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On Tuesday, Google will reveal who the winners of each grade group are and who wins the national prize during an “activity-filled morning” at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
For his entry, Babin created a 3D metal sculpture inspired by technology made from bicycle gears and metal gadgets he found lying around his house. The nine-year-old told Global News he wants to become a mechanical engineer someday and said he even snagged a few trinkets from his father’s shop, which he then glued together to help him make the sculpture.
In an interview with Global News in May, Maria Cortellucci from Google Canada said they were blown away by Babin’s 3D sculpture.
Babin is the only entry from New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada overall who was named a finalist. More than 11,000 students entered the competition.
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