Please help Wave Robotics earn $1,000!!!

[Katie_UPS]

I'm guessing they had classes at a time in their computer lab working to bring up their coin-count:

Based on some very rough math:

At a moderate/pushing pace, you can get about 50 coins a minute. If they have 20 kids in a class (this is conservative, or at least it is compared to my elementary school classes), then 50 x 20 = 1,000 coins a minute. Do this all day, and all of a sudden their school is getting close.

Update:
To make it more fun, see how many coins you can push in a minute. My highest is 65.

[CastleBravo]

We should recruit the FLL kids to help out.

[Ryan Himmelblau]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

We should recruit the FLL kids to help out.

OMG why didn't we think of this earlier. Is there a forum like CD for lego league? Otherwise we should all tell all the lego league teams we know to help wave.

BTW put in 500 for you guys b4 my finger got tired from clicking.

[74Robotmom]

Okay, I'll admit, that was fun! I'll keep visiting and filling that hungry little pig. Good luck guys!

[Debbie]

Did it... emailed my team to do it.. GOOD LUCK!! I'll try to remember to keep voting!

[Robotmmm]

SOS!!!

The school is getting serious today and putting in tons of coins!

Please help out!!!!!

[Techhexium]

I think we're still doing good. I just helped dump in some coins. When I saw the counter raise by 1000, the school has only dropped about 550 coins.

[Robotmmm]

Closing in on a MILLION!!

If everyone throws a few coins in the pig we can cross that mark today!!

[Borobo]

only 85000 to go

[Dancin103]

I'm still voting! I love this fundraiser. I've been at it for an hour, it's a great thing to do while you're watching tv!

[Debbie]

993446 ... getting closer... We are trying to spread it on FB too... Good luck!!!

[nighterfighter]

The 1,000,000 mark was broken, but not by me.

Congrats!

[DonRotolo]

1027424 versus 670797 at the moment.

[Navid Shafa]

Between Mr. Steele and I, Skunkworks Robotics Team #1983 has dropped a total of 1,983 votes/coins and we're still going! Glad to help out another team! You guys are over 400,000 coins in the lead. If it ends up getting even relatively close, just keep CD posted, I'm positive we can ensure that you win!

It was fun playing in the same division as you guys this year, you have a nice themed bot, I love the wave cut outs everywhere

Good Luck in the contest and your future endeavors, again glad to be of help!

[Navid Shafa]

So, I came back and tossed in god knows how many more coins. I've put in upwards of 4,000 alone...

I decided to run some numbers. At 4:00 pm (Pacific Time) today, on 5/30/11 the score was:

1145320 vs 697526

This has Wave leading by 447,794 coins. Assuming the end is tomorrow night at midnight, there is only 32 hours left.

Therefore, they would need to put in roughly 13,994 coins an hour, to just tie with Wave. Which comes out to roughly 233 coins a minute.

Thanks to Katie, we know a reasonable top speed:

Originally Posted by Katie_UPS

At a moderate/pushing pace, you can get about 50 coins a minute.

Even if they had 5 people sitting at a computer for the next 32 hours straight at max speed, they might be hard pressed to even out the score.

I'll drop a few more in if I the need becomes urgent, but I think the gap is too great to recover. That being said, never take your enemy small. If they get a 30 kid class tomorrow to work at full speed, they could theoretically catch up in around 5 hours. Get a few classes to work on it simultaneously, and they could catch up really quickly.

By 4:00-ish local time tomorrow, I'm guessing another check is in order. If we see the gap closing, then we know we need to act tomorrow to make sure Wave makes it out on top!

Good luck, glad to help!

*Edit: Oshkosh is in Central time, so my number are slightly off. Considering the small time change, if the contest closes at midnight their time, the gap will be even harder to close.