A SCHOOLGIRL who beat 200,000 children in an online doodle competition is going to America to help design another logo for an internet giant.

Katie Chisnall, 14, of Lacock Gardens, Hilperton, won a competition last autumn to design a logo, which was displayed on the Google UK homepage for millions to see.

As part of the prize, she will be heading off to San Francisco, where she will meet Google's webmaster and original doodler Dennis Hwang to design another logo, which will go online to celebrate the company's ninth birthday.

Katie, a student at St Augustine's Catholic College, Trowbridge, said: "I will have a little tour of the Googleplex and meet Dennis Hwang. We will be doing another doodle for their ninth birthday.

"I am quite interested to ask him about his touch-screen computer that he uses to design the doodles."

Katie discovered she had won the national competition when she went to the final of the Doodle 4 Google contest held at the Science Museum in London in November.

After having entered the contest as part of an arts project at school, Katie went on to beat thousands of contestants and has since seen her design printed online and on t-shirts.

A Google engineering firm in London has even been kitted out with the t-shirts bearing her design as part of their uniform. Katie said: "I was very, very surprised when I found out. I am very proud of the design."

Doodlers were asked to come up with a design last year that best represented what it means to be British to them.

Katie decided she would try and bring in images from each area of Britain and chose to incorporate Edinburgh Castle, the Severn Bridge, Blackpool Tower, the London Eye and the Millennium Sculpture in her design.

She said: "I got really in to it. I tried to get a place from everywhere in the UK. There are so many places in London but I wanted to include everywhere.

"Also I wanted to think of something original to Britain. I thought about food and things like that but you can get that kind of thing from anywhere and I wanted to use something that no where else would have."

Katie is taking her father Nick, mother Caroline and 16-year-old brother Michael on the 12-hour flight to America and hopes to fit in a visit to see the city's famous Golden Gate bridge.

With plans to further her skills with a possible future career using art, Katie is well on the way to making her mark in the doodling world at Google.

For more details on this year's competition visit www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/index