The Google Students Club diaries : The doodle contest!

There are several events in human history that deserve to be remembered,like birthdays of famous people, and major events, such as the Olympics. Google provides an artistic solution to this using what we call the google doodles. To put it in a nutshell,the Google Doodle is an artistic version of the Google logo with a very  intriguing significance. TheGoogle for Doodle is an contest to bring out the artist and creative brain within students.

The target objectives of this event were-:

1. To create a general awareness on the brilliant concept of a doodle
2. To bring out the artist in students
3. To foster creativity. Participants realized that the concept was more than just an art contest, people had to find meaning and significance to their idea of a doodle which we believe fostered their creativity like never before.
4. Just the idea of a doodle design ,with no restrictions on how you designed it( you could use a software or do it on pen and paper) gives people an intense freedom of thought which brings out the best out of us.

The event received a warm response in college. We got a participation of approximately 30students. Being one of the first few GSC events to be conducted in college,there was curiosity and excitement in the air. The event  managed to capture the curiosity of even our ex-director MajGen. SS Dasaka who came to see some of the best brains in college at work. The event took students back to their school days, the joy of painting and drawing was once again visible on the faces that gleamed at the break from the moribund engineering life. The effect this event had was seen clearly in the huge participation we got in the event that followed . People got a glimpse of what the GSC events had  to offer.

The event was conducted beautifully ,participants were prompt, registrations were conducted in an orderly manner. There was music playing and different existing doodles being shown in the projector to inspire students and daring participants to do better. Many students found the event synonymous to fun. People were enjoying themselves and lost in thought. The melodious music made the event more of a carnival than a contest. Students were completely involved in their individual work and were doing their best. The joy in creativity with the ambiance and the enthusiasm made the event complete

Many were eager to participate in more such events. An event that promotes artistic creativity in an technical institution is rare, and something that requires immense thought and something like the doodle contest is even less seen. On the whole the google student club was able to win a reputation as a club that promoted creativity and talent through interesting means by showing different products of google to express themselves better .

The event did not see many challenges. The college was completely cooperative and the event was conducted in an open space. The college provided us with projectors and other equipment on request. The major challenge was to convince students to participate. Being one or the new clubs,the doodle for google was the very first event. People were curious and inquisitive but also were afraid that they had lost their talent for artistic thinking which was proved wrong during the course of the event. The students proved to be nothing less than brilliant in their work, the ideas were incredible and showed us the immense potential in some of our students. This event’s success meant a lot to the team. the event that followed the doodle for google received almost 4 times the number of participants. Many asked if the doodle contest would be conducted again . Clearly the doodle was google earned us more future participants and made the club and its events more popular. Students now know that learning and fun can get along here in the google student club of Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology.

This was our first time working as a team and the functioning of the team was completely smooth. We were completely coordinated and everyone had a clear idea on what had to be done. Our teamwork was beautifully coordinated as our ideas resonated and converged. The success of this event promoted our bonding and trust further. There were several brainstorming sessions that took place before the event. we often debated for the better idea. We learnt to understand each other’s skills and utilize them as a team. We began to resonate in thought which was one of the contributing reasons for the success of thisevent.The event was a complete learning experience that helped foster our team work and motivated us to strive for better.

Personally speaking this event helped me break the ice with the members of the core team. we got familiar with each other’s skills and could now collectively work in sync. Sure  it wasn’t the best event but it certainly meant a good beginning!