By , Detroit Free Press
Publication Date: 2026-04-16 17:22:00
April 16, 2026, 1:22 p.m. ET
Michigan sixth-grader Lerui Zheng was announced Thursday, April 16 as one of five national finalists in the annual Doodle for Google contest, which invites K-12 students to submit an artistic interpretation of Google’s logo for the search engine’s homepage and includes scholarship funds for winners.
Voting for the national winner begins April 16, through April 29 via this link: https://doodles.google.com/d4g/. They can also see their home-state doodle finalist’s artwork displayed on Google in a revolving gallery on April 28th.
