Mystic Valley Student a Doodle 4 Google Finalist

Isabel Waller, a student at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden, was recently named the Massachusetts winner in the annual Doodle 4 Google contest.

A public vote from now until Friday, May 9, will determine five national finalists from the 50 state winners, with Google announcing the overall winner Wednesday, May 21.

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If Waller wins the national contest, she would take home a $30,000 scholarship and a $50,000 grant for her school.

The seventh annual contest asked students across the country to design a Google doodle based on the theme, “If I could invent one thing to make the world a better place … “

Waller’s doodle was named, “Beauty from Garbage.”

Waller wrote, “This doodle expresses the theme because the device pictured creates beautiful flowers out of garbage. This would make the world a better place because it would get rid of the current problem of waste disposal while simultaneously making the world more beautiful."

The winning student will work with a team of professional doodlers to animate his or her doodle, which will appear on the Google homepage.

Editor’s note: Isabel Waller has no relation to the author of this post.