Katie's a top Google doodler

An eight-year-old Shropshire girl's artwork could be viewed by millions of people after she made it to the finals of a national competition.

And Katie Roberjot,a pupil at Old Hall School, Wellington, is in the running to win a trip-of-a-lifetime to California after being crowned the West Midlands regional winner in the five to eight age group of the Doodle 4 Google - My Future competition to design a themed Google logo.

Her winning entry is called Growing Up. It caught the judges' eyes for its use of images of herself growing up to express her interpretation of the My Future theme.

She was one of more than 60,000 young people across the UK who took part.

From today until November 13 people can vote on 48 entries at www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/vote

The overall winner will visit Google's headquarters in California and meet and work alongside Dennis Hwang, Google's master doodler, as well as having their doodle appear on the Google UK homepage.

Mr Hwang will choose the winning picture from four shortlisted entries, to be announced in London on November 19.

It was the first time the school had taken part in the annual competition.

Katie, who lives on the edge of The Wrekin, said: "I'm so excited to be in the top 48.

"I think it's great my school has got behind me to show support.

"I love drawing and think it would be brilliant to see my doodle on the internet. and work alongside Dennis in California."