BlogCadre - Competition

Colle + McVoy's "Yearbook Yourself" wins People's Voice Webby

Sat, 09 May 2009 22:39:12 +0000

A congratulations goes out to Minneapolis's own advertising company Colle + McVoy for winning the People's Voice Webby award for Interactive Advertising - Viral Marketing for their website Yearbook Yourself.

Yearbook Yourself - Link
The Webby Awards 2009 - Link
Colle + McVoy - Link

2nd Annual Sierra Bravo F1 Overnight Website Challenge

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:26:06 +0000

This weekend was the second annual Sierra Bravo F1 Overnight Website Challenge where approximately 130 web developers and designers donated 24 hours of their time to create free websites for 13 deserving non-profits.

Our own BlogCadre pal, Jason Striegel, and his team of 8 other talented web pros, team Praxis, pulled off the win and developed a kick-butt website for their non-profit, District 202.

After 24 hours of hard work, no sleep and too much caffeine, the 2009 Website Challenge teams and non-profits can now sleep soundly.

Related links:
Needy meets nerdy as non-profits get an economic boost - kare11.com
Teams of computer programmers give free Web site makeovers to 12 nonprofit agences - TwinCities.com
Sierra Bravo offers nonprofits a chance to spiff up Web presence - Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
Sierra Bravo's F1 Overnight Website Challenge - link

Update: Sameer Mishra wins 2008 Scripps National Bee

Sat, 31 May 2008 02:54:51 +0000

13-year-old Sameer Mishra of West Lafayette, Indiana, won the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word "guerdon." Sameer beat out first time spelling bee competitor Sidharth Chand.

Sameer was definitely the funny one of the bunch almost mistaking "numnah" for "numbnut." Hopefully someone will have that footage up on YouTube soon.

Update: Break.con posted the "numb nut" incident. Link to video.

Scripps website - official results
'Guerdon' wins spelling bee for Sameer Mishra - CNN article

Previously:
Last year's Scripps Spelling Bee winner (LwL)

Man falls off balcony in spitting contest

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:04:46 +0000

A man fell off a two-storey balcony when he thrusted too far forward in trying to outspit his 12-year-old son in a spitting contest. He was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. Link.

Girl wins big money in texting competition

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:38:54 +0000

Morgan Pozgar, a thirteen-year-old from Pennsylvania, won $25,000 at the LG National Texting competition by typing "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in 15 seconds. [Link]

Competitive Programming

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:12:58 +0000

Last year, a short e-mail forwarded by a school teacher placed me into an interesting situation. An invitation to sign up for the national computer programming competition. I never really considered entering it, until one of my friends asked me to.

Two weeks later, we had won our division, come third overall, and won a nice amount of money from it (it wasn't a bad return for two hours work).

I've never looked back.

SEARCC Programming Competition 2004

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:08:40 +0000

Photo from the SEARCC Programming Competition in India in 2004.