Thanks to all of those who voted for me and helped spread the word about the recent scholarship for student bloggers. I did not take first place but I received 2nd place and $1000 will be going to Georgia Tech. Thanks to Daniel Kovach for holding this scholarship. Congrats to Shelly Batts for also winning $1000 and of course to Stephen Yellin for taking home the big $5k.
A very special thanks to those that blogged about this on my behalf. Also thanks to everyone at Yahoo, OpenDNS, FeedBurner, Flock, Media Temple and my sister at Fleishman-Hillard who helped spread the word about this within each company. Oh and thanks to David White, my Computational Media academic advisor at Georgia Tech, for emailing all of the CM undergrads about this.
In no particular order, thanks again to everyone that blogged about this. I probably left a few out so if you blogged about this let me know and I’ll link it up.
- Cameron Olthuis
- Jeremy Zawodny
- Flock Blog
- Amber Mac
- 9rules Blog
- Kelsey Ruger
- Darren at ProBlogger.net
- Matt Craven at Blog Herald
- Erica O’Grady
- Brad Cavanagh
- C. Wess Daniels
- Ben Gray
Anyways, I just arrived in Sunnyvale not too long ago and met up with Richard Crowley and Phil Freo – both fellow Yahoo! interns from the summer that will also be participating in tomorrow’s Time Capsule Camp. For the record, Delta first class rocks. Each seat had its own display where you could watch TV or movies for free. Also for the record, the Sunnyvale Sheraton has poor, dial-up caliber internet connectivity.
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Where’s the love bro?
Congrats Paul!
@Cameron – oops, forgot about you! updated the post.
I blogged about you too Paul, but I only found out about your efforts 2 days before the comp closed – but I still wrote about it and gave people a link! Don’t know if I’m worthy of being placed in that list of people, but I’d sure appreciate it.
Congrats on the $1000 and being able to go to Georgia Tech.
Congratulations Paul. All the best at Georgia Tech! (You are going there right?
Sucks that you didn’t get first. Still, 1k ain’t bad ;).
Congrats!!!
It’s funny that some people wanted you out of the competition because you are a “more famous” blogger and you would win too easily. I think you won fair and though I wanted you to get first, I’m still really happy for you. Enjoy your scholarship!
Congrats on the 1k Paul I know it will be helpful.
You are welcome, i vote for you from home and work.
Any idea if Kovach will be offering this scholarship yearly? I wouldn’t mind signing up.
Congrats Paul. Too bad that $1000 will be going straight to our respective schools! Good luck with the blogging.
congrats! i have long long lost friends who had a great time at gtech!
Congrats Paul!!