Juzer Burhani

We are happy to announce the winners for the Google 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition! Congratulations to the talented students who took on such a challenging project. You can see their amazing models in Google Earth by turning on the 3D Buildings layer and navigating over to each campus, or you can see their individual collections in our 3D Warehouse. The winning schools are:

• Johns Hopkins University (Student Technology Services & Digital Media Center; United States)


• Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (China)


• University of Wisconsin-Madison (Department of Engineering; United States)


• Missouri University of Science and Technology (Department of Physical Facilities; United States)


• Nicolas Copernicus University (Department of Biology and Earth Sciences; Poland)


• Stockholm University and KTH (Department of Computer and Systems Sciences; Sweden)


• Cardiff University (Department of Information Services; United Kingdom)


• Bournemouth University (The Business School; United Kingdom)


• Peking University (School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science; China)

The results are in from last week's public vote for its favorite doodle from the Doodle 4 Google art competition, in which Google invited students in grades K-12 to design the Google logo around the theme "What if...?"

Today, they're pleased to announce the winner: Grace (Suryung) Moon, a 6th grader from Canyon Middle School in Castro Valley, California. Her creation, "Up in the Clouds" was selected for its artistry and creativity as well as for its interpretation of the "What if...?" theme. Grace's doodle will replace Google's regular logo on their homepage tomorrow, May 22nd, and Grace will be awarded a $10,000 college scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for her school in recognition of this achievement.
Congratulations also go to the three national finalists. They were selected as having the best doodle in their grade groups and will each receive a laptop computer:

To celebrate the winner and all of the talented finalists, Google held an awards ceremony at the Googleplex for the 40 regional winners today. The finalists and their families joined them for a fun-filled day with activities ranging from face painting to a doodling master class with their own Chief Google Doodler Dennis Hwang.