Doodle 4 Google Asks Kids to Predict the Future

Calling all budding artists: Google needs your help!

The Web giant on Wednesday kicked off its annual Doodle 4 Google art contest, inviting K-12 students across the US, Guam, and Puerto Rick to create their own version of the Google logo. The winning masterpiece will be showcased on the Google homepage for a day, ensuring that millions of people will see it.

The winner will also receive $30,000 towards a college scholarship, and the opportunity to work with the Google Doodle team in Mountain View, Calif. Plus, the winning kid's school will get to spend $50,000 on technology.

The theme of this year's competition is "what I see for the future," and Google is asking kids to "imagine what awaits them in the years to come and represent that vision" in their doodle. Kids can use any materials to bring their vision to life—crayons, clay, graphic design, even food—just be sure to incorporate the letters G-o-o-g-l-e in your doodle.

"Yes, that means anything they see—even if it includes flying dogs, living on a shooting star, the trip of their dreams, or for the true Futurists out there—perhaps a distant world filled with dazzling new technology of all shapes and sizes," Google Doodle Team Lead Ryan Germick wrote in a blog post.

Submissions are open now through Dec. 2; head here to enter a doodle. Once the entry period closes, Google's judges (who have yet to be named) will narrow the field to the 53 best doodles, then the public will be invited to vote for their favorite online.

"This year's contest is going to be one for the record books; the future and the ways to depict it are limitless," Germick wrote.

Google has been hosting this contest every year since 2008. During the 2015-16 contest, a sophomore from Washington D.C. named Akilah Johnson took home the top prize. Her winning doodle is pictured above.