A SCHOOLGIRL'S artwork has been seen by millions after she beat 15,000 others to have her logo displayed by internet search engine Google.

Katherine Chisnall, 13, of Lacock Road, Hilperton, won a competition to design a logo representing Britishness' which was displayed on the Google UK homepage for 24 hours on Monday and Tuesday.

Katherine, a pupil at St Augustine's Catholic College, Trowbridge, travelled to London's Science Museum on Monday to the final of the Doodle 4 Google contest and learnt she had won a prize including a trip to Google's headquarters in San Francisco.

She said: "I was really shocked to win, happy but shocked. Now I'm just looking forward to going to San Francisco and designing more doodles."

Katherine entered the contest along with other pupils at school and thousands of others, aged from four to 18, around the country.

They were asked to come up with a design that, for them, represented what it means to be British.

Of the entries 45 per cent of youngsters drew monuments and historical figures, over half used the Union Jack, with others choosing to depict nature, sport and even James Bond and Harry Potter.

Katherine 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.

Katherine, a keen artist, travelled up to London with her parents, Caroline and Nick, a delegation from St Augustine's and some of her friends. Her older brother Michael, 15, had to stay in Trowbridge because he is in the midst of mock exams.

At a display of the work of those who made it through to the final of the contest Katherine met Google's webmaster and original doodler Dennis Hwang and TV presenter Tony Robinson.

She also won a laptop for herself and a state of the art Hitachi interactive whiteboard for her school.