Friendswood Junior High artist, Brooke Bartholomew has been named as a named a regional finalist for her entry into this year’s “Doodle 4 Google” contest. Making it to the Top 40 isn’t too shabby for a nationwide contest with more than 33,000 entries!
Doodle 4 Google is a competition open to K-12 students of US schools to create their own Google doodle inspired by the theme, ”If I could do anything, I would…” Bartholomew’s theme is “…Repair All the Worlds Breaks”.
Google simultaneously announced the regional winners across the 40 locations of their finalists. To win the contest, the artists must receive online votes. From May 18-25 the public can vote online for their favorite doodle.
Her Top 40 status was announced in an FJH assembly hosted by a Google representative who explained the importance and many uses of the internet. Google also handed out shirts to the students with their classmates winning doodle and presented Brooke with a life-size copy of her design.
Posted on Feb 9, 2010 | Tagged in: people
In just a few short days Friendswood resident Terry Virts will launch into space carrying the well wishes of his community and family.
On Sunday February 7th Virts will accompany five other astronauts as they take off for a 13-day flight from Launch Pad 39 at the Kennedy Space Center. This will be Virts’ first flight as he serves as space shuttle pilot, assisting with technical and robotic mission duties. The STS-130 mission team will be led by Commander George Zamka, with Nicholas Patrick, Robert Behnken, Stephen Robinson and Kathryn Hire working as Mission Specialists.
Virts is excited to join the mission and this particular team. “I told my wife when I got assigned to the flight that if I had to pick one flight as my assignment this would be it, because of the crew we have and the modules we will bring up,” Virts said. “It’s rare to bring up one module. We get to bring up two and activate both of them.”
