Help me win $7000 CDN for a rookie FIRST team
 

If you consider this spam please feel free to delete this post

The Edge 102.1 a radio station in Toronto is having a facebook contest to see who can create the best group and get the most friends to join. The winner will recieve $7000.
http://www.edge102.com/contests/in_the_facebook.cfm
So I created a group to give it a try. If I win I will donate the money to a rookie team in the GTA to help them get started in FIRST. I have not picked a team yet since I don't have the money also I don't know what teams are joining next season.
link to facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2352603809

Vince Lau
Mentor FRC 1281 and FRC 849

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Joined, inviting people.

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Sounds like a worthy cause; I'll help :)

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Joined.

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If you win this will help a rookie team greatly. Joined.

Re: Help me win $7000 CDN for a FIRST new team
 

It was spam until you mentioned for a new FIRST team.

Good luck. :)

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I saw this post, then I looked at Facebook and I already had an invitation from Joe. That was scary fast.

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Joined :) Hope your plan goes through.

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thanks for editing the title

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joined :D

figured id start using face book eventually... this is a great way to start. :rolleyes:

good luck

/forest

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What can I say Tom, I'm an engineer, I'm effecient. :p

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joined!

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Classic engineer....cant even spell :p

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Spell, we're supposed to be able to spell!? I joined:D

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joined

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Joined and sent invites to everyone who hadn't already joined / invited by Joe (aka random people who might not even know what FIRST is).

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Half the joke. :cool:

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Right.........

:p

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I joined and invited the people who weren't already invited. Good luck!

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Saw this in my mini-feed and joined. Good luck Vince.

Of all the 102.1 groups on my group list, you're second with 140 members after someone with 165.

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thanks everybody, keep up the good work

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I just saw one that's up to 16,221. Keep it going Vince.

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Same as others; joined, invited all my robotics friends. Best of luck to you!

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Ross Hammond 4472 group members
Fiona Kay 1581 group members
Dave Lysecki 1264 group members
George Labatia 780 group members
Dave Ward 642 group members

Long way to go....

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joined!

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There is no way that someone got 4472 people to join without using some kind of hack.

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the Ross Hammond group is actually at 15,000 + members now
but I'm not going to give up.

Edit: Can a mod edit the title so it makes more sense
Help me win $7000 CDN for a FIRST new team does sound right
what about Help me win $7000 CDN for a new FIRST team?

Face book contest helps rookie team win $7000
 

hi all, Vince Lau is trying to make a facebook group as fast as he can to help out a rookie team here is the quote from facebook:

"Hey everybody,
the Edge 102.1 is having a facebook contest to see who can create the best group and get the most friends to join, and win $7000 CDN. So I figured I'll give it a try and if I win, I'm going to donate the money to rookie team (in the GTA) joining the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition next season."

i really think this is worthwhile so please join.

here is the link: http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2352603809

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don't give up, all the CD community should create a FaceBook and join, lets get a new rookie team in the GTA

when is the deadline... remember

"the first period of any match up is to work out adjustments and have a game plan, the rest is to execute it." lets do this CD community.

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oops sorry guess you beat me to it :P

vivek

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I just invited all my friends on facebook. Hope all works out well.

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joined

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I joined and invited quite a few of my friends as well. I also added some pictures. :)

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Joined. Good luck.

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The largest group right now is for the Hospital for Sick Kids here in Toronto. It is easy to why it has grown. I we try I am sure that with our international friends it will work out. If not, Sick Kids Hospital is a worthy cause.

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As of this post there is 385. If the 1200 invited join then we could sky rocket to 2nd place. Keep up the good work.

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Joined... invited a few others. Best of luck with your group.

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He is effecient! I missed this thread on CD but Joe Matt made sure I got an invite!

Heidi

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Don't forget to post on the wall and message board and add photos. Entries are judged based on activity as well as size!

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The winning team is about 2000 members right now, we can defiently surpass that number if we keep on going we got 450 people so far, with 1200 awaiting reply. Keep on going and hopefully we can get up to the top.

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I made a user bar to help promote the group

(I couldn't get it to post in the code tags, so i just used php tags...whatever)

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I joined and invited all my friends, If everyone did that then it would be a very large group very quickly.

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Thanks everybody for your help
we currently have 634 members with one week left

This is why I love FIRST everybody is always willing to help

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Vince, are you updating the 102.1 website? I do not see you there.

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yeah i update it at night time

edit: we are currently in 15th place

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How can you check how many invitations are pending?

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under members click on see all it will say on the top. right now we have 1116

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we move two down, karthik is a very happy man...

btw: check all the links above you, i found one where the group got deleted.

so that might give you some ideas

Im urging all my friends on facebook to invite ALL their friends, and finally, im going to create a group on myspace and get myspace people to create facebooks so that they can join. extending into other social networks can also end up being useful

EDIT: 6 of the groups above us were deleted by Facebook, so were technically in 9th

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for all the myspace people

http://groups.myspace.com/firstedgefbchallange

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Lets do this guys

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uh..... why are they being deleted?

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too large, take a look, when you click the links, it will bring you to your home page if they have been deleted.

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This is the reason why some of the groups have been deleted:
http://www.edge102.com/contests/in_the_facebook.cfm

Basically what they say in the video is don't spam people with invites to join the group. People have probably been getting annoyed at the amount of invites they received (Karthik said he got around 30), and Facebook decided to delete the groups that were spamming. I think it would be a good idea to try and send invites only to people that you think will actually join (people that have experience with FISRT?!).
The group is still around and is actually pretty high in the standings. It wouldn't be fun if it got deleted now.

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Sorry team 180...

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we can do this guys. atleast 5000 firsters have facebooks.

well theres about 30000 firsters so i figure thats the amount.

-vivek

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hey you guys think we could get brandon to pm all the people on CD to join if they have facebooks? that would help a lot.

-vivek

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thats called 180, we can't do that, not even on CD

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Joined

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so you think maybe he could make it the front announcement thing in that middle section on the portal?

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Great Idea, I don't want to take credit for it, and i just got home from partying so if you wouldn't mind, step up to the plate and p.m. him yourself, tell me when you have and i'll back you up

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ok

-vivek

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joined.

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$7000 CDN is like...37 cents american right? haha jk

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Got a status report for us? Wasn't it today or tomorrow that's the deadline?

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Deadline is tomorrow at noon
current standings
26th
991 members

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...and about 4,000 pictures. At this rate, CD-Media is toast! :p

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If you watch the status updates..

that happened in all of two hours :)

....what can I say, I'm doing my best to help Vince and I'm on summer break...my FIRST friends aren't hearing the end of this group. (I sent out a message to every member in the group asking for them to upload photos)

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I'm uploading tons of photos as I type... all old school 2004 photos. LOL. But time isn't on my side. I have to be at work in 45 minutes.

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i joined and im going to upload some photos i have laying around of build from 06 :D

EDIT: Here is a link to over 1000 Pics from FLR 2006 taken by our team photagrapher. If you would like to save and upload some http://gotsheep.homeip.net/FirstRoboticsAll/

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Do any of the other groups have this much activity (photos, posts, etc.) ?
When i get the chance, ill definately be adding more photos.



Good Luck !

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So how are we doing?

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IF nobody is DQ'ed, we barely cut the top 25 with over a thousand members.

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Well the edge.ca website still shows us at 992 members, and final update is today before noon.
Currently we have:
1047 members
4869 photos
30 Discussion topics
126 wall posts
72 Officers

Ranked top 30

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Does the picture count play into the contest?
If it does, wish someone emphasised that to me before today..
I have probably (at least) about 10 albums of 60 pics in each album of FIRST related images on FB. :o

Oops.

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I got bored, did some math got some figures.


AS OF 11:55 MAY 24th

Our group: (1,052 members)
4 admins
0.06 officers for every member
4.65 pictures for every member
0.02 topics for every member
0.12 wall posts for every member
6 group AND edge related graphics (including a USERBAR)

The Current Leader Group: (10,163 members)
1 admin for the WHOLE group
1 officer for the WHOLE group
0.21 pictures for every member
0.01 topics for every member
0.07 wall posts per member
4 group graphics (two that don't work!)

*This is posted in the group, for all of 102.1 The Edge to see.

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Here's the judging criteria, from the Official Rules:

The Grand Prize winner will be selected based on two criteria. a) the Facebook group with the greatest number of members and, b) Best use of Facebook tools (ie: Group Info, Recent News, Photos, Discussion Board, The Wall, external promotion, etc) as deemed by our Judging Committee. Final update submissions must be accurate and are due Thursday, May 24th at 12:00pm. Judging commitee will review all entries and determine a winner.

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so I guess it comes down to which the judges value more. Good luck, Vince, and good job to everyone here who helped out. It's quite inspiring to see a group pull together like this for someone they might not know, but for something that they believe in.

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well I guess we find out who wins in about 6 hours from now, I just wanted to thank everybody that joined the group to help with this contest. And to Michelle and Sara who did a lot of work on the group page the last few days. Thanks

Vince

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Okay, so we didn't win. The group that won was given the $7000 to send Madisyn to an ability camp. The edge even kicked in an extra $3000. Now, don't get me wrong, this is a VERY deserving cause too.

Here's a little about Madisyn, from their group page:

"Madisyn had had several strokes in utero, one of them being very severe. It was a left middle cerebral artery stroke and caused damage to the entire left side of her brain and a few spots on the right side. They basically told us that she would never do anything.

The day that Madisyn turned 2 weeks old we took her home. I was so scared. She has made amazing progress and touches peoples lives everyday by her strength and will to do things despite her disability. She has been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy."

Congratulations to them! And best of luck to their little girl!
Oh, and Vince, you're welcome! Michelle and I had a lot of fun editing your page. =)

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Even though we did not win it was great to see that so many FIRST students gathered together to help out someone that 98% of us have never met. This is what I love about FIRST everyone helps and asks why later. And the best part is look at all the new FIRST people you can now talk to online and facebook because of this.

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Great job, Vince! You had a very successful group, that will hopefully stay as active as it is now.

The winning group did, in the end, deserve to win. Their money will go to an excellent cause, and I hope Madisyn benefits from the experience she will now receive thanks to the Edge.

Kyle made a good point when saying we came together to help someone most of us have never even met. Another reason why FIRST is a truly wonderful organization. Just by getting everyone together for this cause is amazing. Kudos to you, Vince, and the rest of FIRST who supported him.

And since there won't be a FIRST network on Facebook (though that would be awesome), we should all just friend each other and make our own lil' network. It's always great to meet new FIRSTers. :)

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Maybe you should cantact them. I am sure they would understand. It is a network with thousands of people in it.

-John

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We might not have a network, but we do have a group. :)

http://udayton.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204788963

Nearly 3k people....

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I thought about it, but then realized that would open up a whole 'nother can of worms. If one organization wants a network, then alllll the other ones out there will want one, too. It probably is something facebook won't want to have to deal with.

The group still rocks, though. :D