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: 6-8_14
Author: DooDad
Votes: 4
Category: 6-8 - 2026
Views: ?
Description: Dive: The main subject matter is a fish combined with a plane diving into water to represent both Florida and flight. Fish can be found on Florida's coastlines. Airplanes bring in tourists and residents to our state and help with traveling long distances as Florida is in one of the corners of the United States. The temperature in Florida tends to get very high so pools and the ocean provide both cooling and entertainment—the entertainment being shown by the pool tiles made of cut compact discs, an object that usually has some form of entertainment with it. However, pollution and littering are unfortunately common as well. To represent this along with the use of obsolete objects, I made the ocean out of gum wrappers, and I have placed various pieces of junk on the fish itself—the use of circular junk, such as bottle caps, as a representation of barnacles. I named this sculpture "Dive" because both humans, fish and birds, represented by the feather, dive into water.