Martin County - Tuesday August 16, 2022: Martin County High School Junior Sophie Araque-Liu has won the 2022 Doodle for Google National Competition.
Google has awarded Sophie a $30,000 college scholarship and Martin County High School will receive a $50,000 technology award.
Google made the announcement Tuesday - https://doodles.google.com/d4g/. Sophie was named the Florida state winner in May.
Doodle for Google is an annual contest that encourages students in grades K-12 to submit their own versions of the Google logo.
The theme for this year's 14th annual Doodle for Google competition was "I care for myself by...". Sophie completed that phrase by writing "I care for myself by accepting [that] others care for me."
In her submission packet she wrote "often I struggle to shoulder a burden on my own and forget that I have so many people, like my mom, who care about me and want to help. Opening up and letting others support me not only relieves my stress, [but] it [also] lets me tackle things I could never do on my own."
Sophie's winning "doodle" is titled "not alone". She has explained that her image is a representation of herself hugging her mother. It is now featured on Google's search page.
