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Draw For the Children
If you haven't already noticed, our man Stephen is a character full of personality. He's morphed into more things than we can count, and will continue to do so over the years to come. For each line Stephen's going to be making a special appearance, and we'll always encourage you to take Stephen and put him into situations yourself.
A logo that's very much like Stephen is the Google logo. Over the years the Google company has turned their logo from a rainbow of colors in 1999, to anything you can imagine in 2009. I think it's pretty impressive, and when going through the company's logo archives online, some of their morphed logos are actually quite good.
Once a year beginning in 2008, Google holds a contest called "Design 4 Google", also known as the "Google Doodle" for students K-12. They do a call for entries on the Google logo, and amongst all the submissions, they pick one logo to be the website's main feature for a day. Not only that, but 40 regional winners across the country are invited to the Googleplex in California to meet and vote, and then the one winner who is selected also wins a $10,000 college scholarship and a technology grant for their school. I wish this was around when I was in high school, because it would've been so helpful not only for my college education, but it would've been pretty freaking cool to be on the Google homepage for a day.
Although Draw cannot provide a college scholarship or a grant to your school just yet, we are giving back to the community because of each and every one of your submissions. For each drawing we receive, no matter if it's 1 or 15 from the same person, we put money towards funding art programs in public schools. As the company grows, so does the amount of money we can contribute, and it's only if you guys give us drawings to oogle at, vote, print and sell. And then only if you buy those wonderful t-shirts from our shop can we continue doing as much as we can to save art in our school system.
Take a peep below at some of the array of great logos that Google has made for their website, and if you know anyone in elementary school, middle school or high school, tell them to contribute to the "Doodle 4 Google".
Not only will you be giving them a chance at a fantastic college opportunity, but you'll be inspiring them to be creative, to be unabashed of their art, but you'll also be inspiring them to,
Draw.

