Googlecation, a Fort Hays State University Leadership 310 team, is set to host a “Doodle for Google” contest and a Google workshop, at 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10 in the Memorial Union.
The team members include Trent Russell, Baldwin City sophomore, Greg Goode, Louisburg senior, Harold Robinson, Tyrone, Okla., senior, and Michaela Gower, Phillipsburg junior. At the beginning of the school year, students in the Fieldwork in Leadership Studies course were broken into groups, where they were assigned to do a project with partner organizations and provide a service to the community of Hays.
Googlecation is in cooperation with the Google Educator Group, which travels to school districts in Kansas to inform and teach how to use Google in Education.
“Our hope for this contest is that students could recreate the Google logo to represent Fort Hays,” Russell said, “A ‘doodle,’ as described by Google, is the recreation of their logo.”
The chosen themes for the artwork are President Mirta Martin’s key values of family, innovation, and the American Dream.
The artwork submission deadline for the contest is Nov. 5. Submissions can be made to the Department of Leadership Studies office in Rarick Hall 235 or emailed to fhsudoodle@gmail.com.
Winners will be announced at the Google workshop. Prizes donated by various businesses will be awarded to the first, second and third-place winners.
Google hosts a similar competition in the spring for high school students to recreate Google’s logo to be used online. This contest is not affiliated with Google’s, but the winning “doodle” will be used on the FHSU website and displayed in the Memorial Union.
“We all had different reasons for picking this project,” Russell said, “I liked that it possessed a quality to be an on-campus project, but we could also expand, and see the results across Kansas.”
Googlecation is hosting a free Google workshop on Nov. 10, and will be taught by Google Certified Instructors, all of which are instructors in the College of Education and Technology, according to Russell.
“It will be focused on how we, as Fort Hays students, can use different Google tools to help us in our education, but also in our daily lives,” Russell said.
The workshop will have different break-out sessions including: Google Drive, Google apps, extensions and add-ons, Google Plus communities, Gmail, Google Classroom and Google Calendar.