Doodle for Google is back to celebrate students’ superpowers

The annual Doodle for Google contest is back for its 17th year! This time, we’re inviting K-12 students to create artwork about their personal strengths and talents, in response to the theme “My superpower is…” The contest is open for entries from October 15, 2025 to December 10, 2025.

Each year, we look forward to highlighting the amazing creativity of children and teens in a U.S. based school (including homeschool) or a school in Puerto Rico, U.S. territories and freely associated states, or The District of Columbia. Children of military personnel abroad can enter this year, and will be judged with applications from their home state.

This year promises to bring another round of spectacular creations as we invite students to look inward and consider the unique traits that make them special. We’re excited to see what students come up with as they reflect on the ways that they contribute to their schools, families, or wider local communities.

We’re also kicking off a new approach to Doodle for Google that will bring more student artwork to the Google homepage, allow us to celebrate winners in bigger ways and better align with the academic year.

Instead of only one student, there will now be five finalists who receive a $10,000 college scholarship, their Doodle featured on our Google.com homepage and a chromebook. Our judges and national voting process will then help determine which of the five finalists becomes the National Winner and receives an additional $45,000 scholarship, plus a $50,000 technology package for their school.

We have also changed the timeframe of the contest from spring to fall. This will coincide with the start of the school year–so educators can more easily incorporate Doodle for Google into their plans and finalists get to be celebrated by their classmates and community while school is still in session.

This year’s judging panel will include NBA powerhouse Giannis Antetokounmpo and Ashley Crosson, National Teacher of the Year.

Giannis Antetokounmpo is a nine-time NBA All-Star forward for the Milwaukee Bucks. His impressive basketball career includes two MVP awards, an epic NBA championship with the Bucks in 2021, and an NBA Defensive Player of the Year award. Committed to using his legacy to help others achieve their dreams, he and his family have established the Charles Antetokounmpo Family Foundation as well as the Antetokounmpo Academy to empower youth through sport, building confidence through education and developing life skills.

Ashlie Crosson, the 2025 National Teacher of the Year, serves as an English teacher at Pennsylvania’s Mifflin County High School, where she aims to prepare her students to navigate the complexities of our global society. Crosson believes in building a strong curriculum that develops communication skills, empowers students to solve problems, and expands their worldview. Crosson teaches Advanced Placement language and composition, English 10, and Survival Stories, an elective that approaches global humanitarian crises from a youth perspective. She also advises the journalism program, which publishes the school newspaper and district magazine. As the 2025 National Teacher of the Year, Crosson will spend a year representing educators and serving as an ambassador for the teaching profession.

How to enter the contest

Doodle for Google 2025-26 is now open for entries until December 10, 2025. For details on how to enter, resources for educators and parents, as well the contest rules, head to our website. We can’t wait to see the creativity and power of these Doodles!