Levittown Student Wins National Google Competition

A Levittown fifth grader is going to be Google famous after winning a national Doodle competition.

Audrey Zhang, a student at Island Trees Middle School, was announced the winner of the seventh Doodle 4 Google competition.

The annual competition challenges students K-12 to redesign the Google logo to go along with a special theme. Inspired by this year's theme, "If I could invent one thing to make the world a better place," Audrey created a transformative water purifier that converts dirty and polluted water from rivers, lakes, and oceans, and turns it into clean drinking water.

Audrey will work with Google's team of professional "doodlers" to create the final design, which will appear on the Google homepage June 9.

Guest judges Rick Riordan, Lyndsey Scott, and Christoph Niemann selected Audrey as the New York State winner and eventually as the national winner of the competition.

A total of 100,000 students entered this year's competition.

“If you don’t draw, then, you can’t show anyone else what your ideas look like,” Audrey said, adding she knows she wants to pursue a career in art as an adult.

Audrey will take home a $30,000 college scholarship and Island Trees Memorial will receive a $50,000 Google for Education grant for establishment and improvement of computer labs.

Congratulations, Audrey!