Doodle 4 Google 2009 winner Picture and logo

On Wednesday, Google announced 12-year-old Christin Engelberth, a sixth-grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, is this year’s winner of “Doodle 4 Google,” a yearly competition that asks K-12 students to dream up their own variation of the logo. Her work will be featured on Google’s main site for 24 hours on Thursday.

Photo/Picture: Doodle 4 google by Christin Engelberth

The theme of this year’s contest was “What I Wish for the World.”

“A New Beginning,” the title of Christin’s doodle, depicts the Google logo as a land and sea naturescape intertwined with trees, a frog and leaping dolphin, a curious lizard, a turtle and fish, and a butterfly set against an orange and yellow background with a rising sun represented by the second “O” in “Google.”

In an interview with CNN, Christin said she portrayed a dawn as a symbol of a new day. Her wish was that “out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more.” She added that wanted to portray a brighter tomorrow and “discoveries being made lead to a better Earth for everyone.”

The prize includes $25,000 college scholarship, laptop, tech grant for her school.

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