Juzer Burhani

Think you make interesting presentations? Then here’s a good opportunity for you to get some recognition for your creativity.

SlideShare, that is home to tens of thousands of PowerPoint presentations, is running a contest to award some of the world’s best, you guessed it right, presentations.

Your entry need not be a corporate style presentation – you can even submit picture slide shows, your school lesson plan done in PowerPoint or even slidecasts that have audio narrations / music.

If you need some inspiration, check these excellent presentations.

The presentation that win maximum votes from SlideShare members will be passed on to a jury who will handpick the winners. The jury includes Guy Kawasaki, Nancy Duarte, Garr Reynolds and Bert Decker.

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.