Diversity Doodle Wins Big at Google

<span style=""font-weight: 400;"">If you want to know what Google thinks of diversity, look at the winning drawing of the Doodle 4 Google 2017 competition. The winning drawing by Sarah Harrison, a 10th grader at Bunnell High School in Connecticut, featured on Google’s website March 31, 2017 shows a group of teens wear sweatshirts that identified their diverse  ethnic, religious  and social backgrounds. </span>

<span style=""font-weight: 400;"">Symbols depicted in the drawing on the teen’s attire include Star of David, Islam </span><span style=""font-weight: 400;"">Star and Crescent moon</span><span style=""font-weight: 400;"">, Christian cross. LGBT rainbow, and a young man in a wheelchair. </span>

<span style=""font-weight: 400;""> ""I wanted to draw something that I hoped would show that we can all get along well, and that it's possible for us to be happy with each other,"" the 15-year-old told Google. </span>

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<span style=""font-weight: 400;"">The annual Doodle 4 Google competition asks contestants to think about what they want to see in the future. The contest also aims to increase STEM education. Harrison won a $30,000 award along with a visit to the Google complex in Palo Alto. Her school will also receive Google Chrome Books and money from Google. </span>

<span style=""font-weight: 400;"">I</span><span style=""font-weight: 400;"">n a statement, Harrison wrote about the wing: “When I started, I was thinking of how there’s a lot of animosity toward diverse communities of people in the world right now. So I wanted to draw something that I hoped would show that we can all get along well, and that it’s possible for us to be happy with each other.”</span>