Matthew Lei is at it again.
For the third time, Lei is the Oregon winner of the annual Doodle for Google contest, where students compete to redesign the Google logo for a day. Lei, who attends Lincoln High School in Portland, has entered the competition every year since he was in third grade at Forest Park Elementary School, when his private art teacher Wanda Ng encouraged the budding doodler to give it a shot.
He won Oregon’s state competition that year–and again as a sixth-grader at West Sylvan Middle School.
“As a child, I didn’t really get to understand how amazing the whole thing was,” Lei says, laughing. “I was just going with it.”
As a third-grader at Forest Park Elementary, Matthew Lei was Oregon's Doodle 4 Google winner.Courtesy of Grant Poujade
Now, as a high school junior, Lei says, “As I’ve grown, I’ve realized that it was actually a really big deal. And a super cool experience.”
Lei’s art won out against hundreds of other K-12 submissions from across Oregon. Since Thursday, his work has been displayed alongside the other state and territory winners’ submissions on the Doodle for Google website.
Now through July 12, the public can vote for their favorite doodle to help choose the five national finalists. From the finalists, a panel of Google employees will select one winner.
If Lei wins the national contest, his doodle will be featured on the Google search page for a full day. Plus, he’ll win a $30,000 college scholarship and $50,000 technology grant for Lincoln High.
And winning the contest wouldn’t hurt his resume either. Lei wants to pursue a career in art: His dream job is to work at Pixar as an animator.
This year, students addressed the prompt “I care for myself by…” with their doodles.
Lei submitted this as his artist statement:
“I care for myself by seeing the best in me. In the past, when I reflected on myself, I would focus on negative aspects. Now, when I look in the mirror, I try reminding myself of the beautiful parts of me. I hope that if I feel better about myself, I can help others feel better about themselves as well.”
Lei set his doodle in a bathroom to represent the place where people first start taking care of themselves in the morning. “Also, personally, the bathroom is where I look at myself in the mirror and do some self reflection,” he says.
He picked the monochromatic blue of the background “because it’s a colder color, so the brightness of the flower version of the person would be more vibrant.”
As for his choice to adorn the boy in the mirror with multicolored blossoms, Lei says, “Flowers are something that symbolizes happiness — something that’s beautiful.”
Lei would be Oregon’s first Doodle for Google national winner. Check out the doodles at doodles.google.com/d4g/vote, where you can vote for Oregon’s very own doodler.
— Zella Hanson, zhanson@oregonian.com
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