Katherine Chisnall is UK's Google doodler


Katherine Chisnall, a 13-year old schoolgirl from Trowbridge, has won the nationwide Doodle 4 Google ­ My Britain competition, and her doodle -- Five wonders of Britain -- will be at www.google.co.uk until 5pm Tuesday. Around 15,000 people entered. Google says:

As well as winning the opportunity to have her work seen by 20 million people, Katherine has won a trip to Google¹s HQ -- the Googleplex in San Francisco -- to work with Dennis Hwang, Google¹s webmaster and original doodler. She has also won a laptop for herself, and a state of the art Hitachi interactive whiteboard for her school, St Augustine¹s RC School.

Google also got a specialist education consultancy to analyse 2,000 doodles. Key findings include: * 45% drew monuments and historical figures ­ compared with 3% that featured celebrities. * Over half (52%) used the Union Jack. * One in three (33%) included Big Ben. * 31% of the children depicted the monarchy. * The sterling currency was drawn by 5%.

After the Queen, Shakespeare was the most depicted person, drawn by 1% of entrants, against just 0.4% for Harry Potter and 0.3% for James Bond.