2026 Gallery & Competition

Welcome to the 2026 DooDad Sculpture Competition!

The competition portion of the 2025 Repurposed DooDad Sculpture Competition has officially concluded, and we are incredibly grateful to the students, teachers, families, and schools who brought this year’s theme to life with such imagination and ingenuity.

From inventive uses of obsolete objects to thoughtful interpretations of “Florida, Flying into the Future,” the sculptures submitted this year demonstrated the creativity, humor, and environmental awareness that make the DooDad Competition so special.

Judging and People’s Choice Voting has completed! 🎉

While the judging is complete, the celebration continues! Many of this year’s sculptures are now being featured in exhibitions throughout the Tampa Bay area.  

Thank you to every student artist who participated and to the educators who encouraged their creativity!

👉 Click Here to view  the Award-Winning Sculptures

Click HERE to return to the Gallery Home!

Contest is finished!
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Title: K-2_4
Author: DooDad
Votes: 34
Category: K-2 -2026
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Description: "Technology in Motion" is a collaborative hanging mobile constructed from donated materials, obsolete objects, and everyday remnants of past innovation. Fishing line suspends antique buttons, contact-lens pop-out disks, key caps, bells, and beads from a broken metal drum, transforming discarded technology into a moving, evolving form. The work invites viewers to reconsider technology not as a linear progression toward the 'new', but as a layered history of problem-solving, experimentation, and adaptation. Objects such as buttons and early medical packaging represent inventions that were once revolutionary, yet now quietly exist in the background of daily life. By pairing these with contemporary materials and digital references, the piece highlights how old and new technologies continuously coexist. Movement plays a central role in the work. As the mobile spins and shifts, it reflects the constant motion of technological development and scientific discovery. Created with students, the piece emphasizes collective contribution and shares authorship, mirroring how innovation is shaped through many hands, ideas, and generations. "Technology in Motion" suggests that the future is not built from scratch but assembled from what already exists; reimagined, repurposed and set in motion once again.