Re: Where in the World is GizMOE Today Contest
 

You're absolutely correct. I meant April 10, or somewhere in that vicinity. Another case where the hand is faster than the brain.

Third Week Winners
 

March 23: Correct Answer: Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN
Winner: Jeremiah Plageman, Team 386

March 24: Correct Answer: Whistler's Mother painting, Musee d'Orsay, Paris France
Winner: Jeremiah Plageman, Team 386 (Second time winner)

March 25 Correct Answer: John Hancock Center, Chicago, IL
Winner: Jon Kentfield, Team 173 (Second time winner)

March 26: Correct Answer: Trevi Fountain, Rome, Italy
Winner: Tom Ham, Team ???

March 27: Correct Answer: New York Public Library, New York City, NY
Winner: Chris MacCoy, Team 173

March 28: Correct Answer: Ellis Island, New York City, NY
Winner: Jon Kentfield, Team 173 (Third time winner)

March 29: Churchill Downs, Louisville, KY
Winner: Mark Lemons, Team 1364

Congratulations to all of our third week winners, who have been individually notified by e-mail.

The fourth week of the contest is now in progress! Don't forget to enter every day. You too could be a winner of a pair of limited edition MOE pins, and, if you pick up your prize at our pit at the Championship Event, a pair of coveted MOEstix!

Coming next week: A special version of the contest for the fifth and final week of Where in the World is GizMOE today, and the announcement of what the GRAND PRIZE will be!

The more times you win, the better your chances at winning the GRAND PRIZE at the end of the contest! But why keep all the fun to yourself? Tell all your teammates to enter!

Go to www.moe365.org now!

Re: Where in the World is GizMOE Today Contest
 

I hope my guess was right today!! ;-) :rolleyes:

Re: Where in the World is GizMOE Today Contest
 

Wait you know the location of the red x box. LOL

Re: Where in the World is GizMOE Today Contest
 

Hmm.That is also what I have been seeing on that page for a couple of days or more now. When I tried getting the image itself and opening it, I got errors about some bad format or something like that.

Where in the World is the GizMOE Picture Today?
 

Sorry about the problems with the picture today. We loaded a new week's worth of pictures last night, and like downloading autonomous code to the robot, sometimes things don't go right and you don't find out until the robot is on the field. We'll correct the problem as soon as we can locate our web guru. He's in an after-school activity and can't be reached.

GizMOE Contest Pictures are back online
 

Sorry it took so long to correct the problems, but we had to wait until a meeting night to fix the problems. Somehow, all of this week's picture files were corrupted.

The good news is, we're now back in operation with a new set of pictures, so drop on by www.moe365.org and submit your answers!

Last Week of Where is GizMOE Today Contest
 

We've now entered the LAST WEEK of the Where is GizMOE contest, and we're going to kick it up a notch. BAM!

GizMOE has been seen around the world at some famous and some not-so-famous landmarks. But for the LAST WEEK of the contest, GizMOE will travel only within the good ol' US of A on his Farewell (to the contest, hope to have a) Victory (in Atlanta) Tour. BAM!

Every Day This Week, GizMOE will be pictured at a location within the continental boundaries of the USA which has some kind of a connection to FIRST. Your task is to identify the connection to FIRST, along with the usual identification of the place and location of where GizMOE happens to be that day.

For example, if GizMOE were pictured in front of the San Diego Zoo, the correct place and location would be San Diego Zoo, San Diego, CA; and the correct connection to FIRST would be San Diego hosted a Regional Competition this year.

So, browse on over to www.moe365.org and play the game!

Oh, I almost forgot. I promised to reveal the GRAND PRIZE today. OK, here it is:

The GRAND PRIZE is a MOE Shirt.

What's that? I promised it would be unique, and a number of people already have traded for MOE shirts?

OK, you're right. How about a MOE Bandana?

What? Still not unique enough? OK, OK. I've got a soft heart.

The GRAND PRIZE will be ...

a MOE Shirt, a MOE Bandana, AND a MOE Wobblie !!!

What's a MOE Wobblie?

You must not have been to the New Jersey or the Philadelphia Regionals.

You DO know about MOEstix, right? Our oh-so-obnoxiously-loud clapping stick noisemakers that were banned by new FIRST rules this year?

I thought so.

Well, MOE Wobblies are our replacement for MOEstix as our obnoxious-but-still-within-the-rules noise makers. You can actually sit right next to them and not need ear plugs, but if you're across the stadium from the MOE Folks, you'll definitely notice them!

And YOU, as our GRAND PRIZE WINNER (should your name be drawn from the hat containing the name of every daily prize winner painstakingly written on individual pieces of paper -- one name per piece of paper -- and folded ever-so-carefully into smaller and smaller pieces until they cannot be folded any smaller, and then shaken, not stirred, before being placed in an empty mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's doorstep for 365 seconds <invisible hand slaps the writer on the face> ...), will be the only person outside of the MOE Team who will have a MOE Wobblie.

How's that for a GRAND PRIZE?

Well, what are you waiting for??? Go to www.moe365.org and enter today. Tomorrow may be too late!

(contest ends 8:30 p.m.Monday, April 12. no purchase necessary to win. all rights reserved)

Where will GizMOE end his tour?

Fourth Week Prize Winners
 

March 30: Technical Problems; no picture, no winner

March 31: Correct Answer: Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
Winner: Mark Lemons, Team 1364 (Second time winner)

April 1 Correct Answer: Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, NV
No Winner, as no correct answers were submitted

April 2: Correct Answer: Biltmore Mansion, Asheville, NC
Winner: Jeremiah Plageman, Team 386 (Third time winner!)

April 3: The Most Correct Answer: Honolulu Memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI. Also acceptable: Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, HI, or Punchbowl, Honolulu, HI. (Punchbowl is the name by which the Honolulu Memorial is known locally)
Nobody had both elements of the answer correct (nobody included Honolulu). So, the winner of the prize for the day was selected from those who had the most correct answer.
Winner: Eric, Team 461

April 4: Correct Answer: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Baltimore, MD, (Oriole Park or Camden Yards also was acceptable).
Winner: Chris Collareta, Team 311

April 5: Correct Answer: Great Wall of China, China. (specific location within China virtually impossible to discern)
Winner: Anthony Quivers, Team 768
Kudos to Chris MacCoy, Team 173, for adding that The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from orbiting space vehicles

Congratulations to all of our fourth week winners, who will be notified individually by e-mail.

The fifth week and final week of the contest is now well under way! Don't forget to enter every day. You too could be a winner of a pair of numbered, limited edition MOE buttons, and, if you pick up your prize at our pit at the Championship Event, a pair of coveted MOEstix! And I GUARANTEE that you will have no problem finding our pit!!!

Remember, this week all entries must also correctly identify the relationship of the picture to FIRST (see previous post)

Go to www.moe365.org now!

I wonder where GizMOE will end up? Hmm ...

Re: Fourth Week Prize Winners
 

Actually, I believe I just saw something on TV which proved that you could not see it from space..

I guess we will have to ask Dave Lavery. Maybe he knows.

Re: Fourth Week Prize Winners
 

Haven't a clue where your GizMOE is, but our Gizmo is in my living room. But I do know something: That's a big 'bot. look at the windows! And how'd he get up there? Did he fall off the top?

Where has GizMOE Been This Week?
 

For his final week, GizMOE chose to make a special tour of the USA, and each stop would have some connection to FIRST. So, how have you done so far guessing where GizMOE was?

On Tuesday. GizMOE was placed high atop the Great Dome at MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts, where Woodie Flowers is a professor.

On Wednesday, GizMOE travelled up the road to Manchester NH, where he was pictured in front of the Steam Engine inside of Dean Kamen's house.

On Thursday, GizMOE borrowed Dean's helicopter so he could hang from the Gargoyles high atop the Chrysler Building in New York City, home to the New York City Regional. He chose the Chrysler building partly because he thought it would be neat to hang from the Gargoyles, but also because the Chrysler Corporation (more properly, now, Daimler Chrysler) is a sponsor to a number of FIRST teams.

If you got all three of those correct, and were following the path that GizMOE took across the country, you could have guessed at where GizMOE was hanging on Friday. He took a short drive down I-95 to hang on top of the New Jersey Capitol Building in Trenton, NJ, the new home of the Johnson & Johnson New Jersey Regional Competition.

Is there a pattern here? Hmm ...

Yesterday (Saturday), GizMOE paused at the remains of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, PA, which hosts GizMOE's favorite Regional Event, the Philadelphia Allliance Regional Competition.

I wonder where GizMOE is headed??? Only two days left until the contest ends.

Head on over to www.moe365.org and see if you can figure out where he is today!

Re: Where in the World is GizMOE Today Contest
 

so who won in the last week......

Re: Where in the World is GizMOE Today Contest
 

I don't yet know who won the last five days. I can't find my password to look at the database :(

I'll post all of the last week's winners at about 9:30 p.m. (EDT) Monday night. That's about an hour after the contest ends.

Final Week and Grand Prize Winners
 

The correct answers for the first five days of the fifth and final week are posted above.

April 6: Winner: Greg Ross, Team 339

April 7: Winner: Mark Rizzo, Team 173

April 8: Winner: Greg Needel, Team 73

April 9" Winner: Carl Agnew, Team 461

April 10: Winner: Michael Dessingue, Team 250

April 11: GizMOE took a detour from his apparent path down the east coast of the United States to visit the friendly folks in the midwest.
Do you suppose he did this to throw everyone off on where he was headed next?
Correct Answer: Renaissance Center, Detroit MI.
The Ren Cen is owned and primarily occupied by GM, sponsor of a number of FIRST Teams, and Detroit is home to a FIRST Regional.
Winner: Gina Sweet, Team 67

April 12: Correct Answer: The Georgia Dome, Atlanta GA.
The Georgia Dome is home to the 2004, 2005, and 2006 FIRST Championship Event
(Was there ever any doubt in anyone's mind where GizMOE would end up on the last day of his tour???)
Winner: Joseph Matt, Team 384

Congratulations to each of the above daily winners, who each have won a pair of numbered, limited-edition MOE Buttons.

If the winners pick up their buttons at the Team 365 Pit area at the Championship Event, They also receive a pair of MOEstix!

And now, the answer you all are waiting for ...

The winner of the GRAND PRIZE!

Which is,

of course,

a MOE Shirt, a MOE Bandana, and a MOE Wobblie!!!

And so, without any further ado ..

and with all the ruffles, flourishes, and blaring of trumpets that an event of this magnitude deserves ...

The winner of the Grand Prize ...

is ...

Greg Ross, Team 330

Congratulations, Greg! You can pick up your grand prize at 3:30 p.m. from the sea of MOE green T-shirts in the stands in front of the Einstein Championship field in the Georgia Dome. Just ask anyone in a MOE shirt where I am, and I'll have your prize then.