Help nominate FIRST for a Shorty Award!

[Hallry]

Posted on the official FIRST - For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Facebook Page:

Please take a moment to nominate FIRST for a social media award in the Shorty Awards! We are currently in 4th place in the "education" category. Help us reach FIRST place by submitting your nomination here: http://shortyawards.com/FIRSTweets/

Don't use Twitter? There are other ways to help us "make it loud!" http://shortyawards.com/FIRSTweets/share

Do your part to help Make FIRST Loud! They are only 8 nominations behind 3rd place as of now!

EDIT: FIRST has moved into 3rd place with 74 nominations, 3 ahead of 4th place. However, that's only half as many as 1st place currently has (148 nominations)!

EDIT 2: FIRST has moved into 2nd place with 107 nominations, 1 ahead of 3rd place. But we're still 41 votes behind first place (148 nominations)! You can see the top positions here: http://shortyawards.com/category/6th/education

[Libby K]

Voted! The great thing is since it's via twitter, you can use multiple accounts: yours, your team's, parody accounts (lookin' at you, FakeGDC!) to vote. Let's get FIRST a Shorty!

[Robby Unruh]

The current #1 position is ridiculous...

I nominate @DanaIM5 for a Shorty Award in #education because... I'm too school for cool
I nominate @DanaIM5 for a Shorty Award in #education because... YOLO
I nominate @DanaIM5 for a Shorty Award in #education because... YOLO I didn't do this one twice by accident, there's like 3 of these in the last 20 minutes.
I nominate @DanaIM5 for a Shorty Award in #education because... He's a joysey gurl
I nominate @DanaIM5 for a Shorty Award in #education because bc he is 5

... and so on...

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Robby Unruh

The current #1 position is ridiculous...

I'm guessing that's a joke nomination (not a real educator) and will probably be weeded out. Let's keep pushing for FIRST though! Already in 3rd with 90 nominations. I bet we can make it to first place pretty quickly.

[Robby Unruh]

We're #2 by 1 vote!

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Libby K

Voted! The great thing is since it's via twitter, you can use multiple accounts: yours, your team's, parody accounts (lookin' at you, FakeGDC!) to vote. Let's get FIRST a Shorty!

I assume you've nominated FakeGDC under the fake accounts category?

per the rules: http://shortyawards.com/rules

Eligibility
If one person controls multiple Twitter accounts, nominations can only be made from one of the accounts.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

I assume you've nominated FakeGDC under the fake accounts category?

per the rules: http://shortyawards.com/rules

I have not! I have seen some tweets going around that some of the FIRST parody accounts have been nominated, though.

True, true - I meant more along the lines of 'tell your team to vote, use the team's twitter account (which I'd assume is run by multiple people)'... I certainly didn't mean 'break the rules'.

[Hallry]

FIRST is now in the lead in Education, but only by 9 votes! Make sure to pass the word on to others to keep nominating!

[Robby Unruh]

A comfortable 30+ votes in the lead, congratulations FIRST! Now we just gotta make sure we don't slow down.

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by Robby Unruh

A comfortable 30+ votes in the lead, congratulations FIRST! Now we just gotta make sure we don't slow down.

FIRST is back down into SECOND by 8 votes! Keep on passing the word to raise the nominations!

[Joe Ross]

FIRST came in second in the community vote. The top 4 chosen by the community (Pirula, FIRST, Joey Feith, and Quran Weekly) and 3 chosen by the nominating Board (esl-libary.com, Ron Clark, and StudyMode) moved on to the next phase. The winner will be chosen by the Real-Time Academy and announced on April 8th.

http://shortyawards.com/category/6th/education