Amazing prizes, worldwide exposure, and the Google empire at your beck and call, if only for 24 hours--not a bad day for a sixth grader. Top honors in the second annual Doodle 4 Google competition went to budding artist Christin Engelberth, 12, who attends Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, TX. Her logo doodle, "A New Beginning" (shown above), will top the Google homepage all day Thursday, May 21.

Engelberth's creation, which is based on her hope that "out of current crisis, discoveries will be found to help Earth prosper once more," bested a pool of 28,000 entrants. A 10-member panel of judges pared that pool down to 40 regional finalists on May 8, and the public was invited to elect its favorite doodle from May 11-18. Six million online votes later, "A New Beginning" emerged as one of the four national finalists, after which Google's Dennis Hwang and Marissa Mayer selected it as the dandiest doodle of them all.