Category: People

As reported in MoCo360 and other local media, Sofia Ravilious, a second grader at Kensington Parkwood Elementary School, has been selected as the Maryland winner for the 16th annual Doodle for Google contest.

Sofia, 8, is now facing off with 55 other young artists from around the country to garner the most votes by the end of the day on June 4 to be the national winner and have her doodle featured on Google.com for 24 hours. You can vote for Sofia’s artwork at this link.

Her clay sculpture, titled “Nature will never end”, depicts a forest scene with trees, flowers, birds, insects, squirrels and rabbits crafted from colorful clay to spell out “Google.” The theme of the contest this year was for students to answer the prompt “My wish for the next 25 years …” through their art.

“I made a forest with animals and trees because my wish for the next 25 years is that there will be more nature for animals to survive in,” Sofia said in her art description.

Parkwood Resident and centenarian Paul Snyder was among 17 World War II veterans honored at the 35^th anniversary of the National Memorial Day Concert held on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday.  These veterans were hailed as representatives of our country’s “greatest generation.”  The full concert can be viewed using this link.  Paul and the other honorees appear on the stage approximately 30 minutes into the program.

That’s our Paul on the right side of the bench, along with five of his fellow  veterans.