July Contest: Just a Few Hours to Go

Everyone has until 11:59 PM PST this evening to submit solutions for the contest!

With these results, I want to note that though not everyone can win the contest, we appreciate and value ALL of your hard work. We're still blown away by those who have significantly increased their productivity and especially those who have turned in 200-300 solutions at a time. It's great to see people getting the hang of things and being successful, all in the name of helping students! That's what we're all about.

Now if you'll excuse us, we have to cut some extremely large checks for y'all.

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Math:

1. L.Z. (1,840)
2. Madhuri V. (530)
3. Allen W. (485)

Sciences and Engineering:

1. Brendan S. (389)
2. Sam H. (173)
3. Glen B., Jillian D. (160)

Business/Economics:

1. Esther C. (188)
2. Uzma R. (170)
3. Han C. (123)

July Week 4 Update: Four Days to Go!

Remember that the cut-off time for the July race is 11:59 PM on July 31. Also, our race coincides with the San Francisco marathon, which is happening this weekend. If you're in the area, check it out. It's always a lot of fun, and there's always a lot of free coconut water and energy bars for the fans. And we all know you love free stuff. :)

Getting close to the finish line! If only this race had such an amazing view!

These are the current numbers as of 1:15 PM on Friday.  

Math:

1. L.Z. (1,840) - Whoa!
2. Madhuri V. (429)
3. David T. (411)
4. Allen W. (404)

Sciences and Engineering:

1. Brendan S. (389)
2. Sam H. (173)
3. Glen B., Jillian D. (160)

Business/Economics:

1. Uzma R. (170)
2. Michael T. (121)
3. Doug T. (116)
4. Esther C. (109)

July Week 3 Update: We Put a Cookie on It

These races are all still very close! We've been cheering you on from our desks over here in sunny Santa Clara. Every day, we check to see how our authors are doing, and we've gotten quite competitive among ourselves. It's all in good fun, we swear! There may be a friendly bet or two going on, but the prizes are stupid things like pride and cookies. That's right, we've put some cookies on who we think the winners might be.

Mmmm... Specialty's Cookies

Math:

1. L.Z. (771)
2. Keryn G. (400)
3. Jason S. (351)
4. Allen W. (323)
5. Ankur B. (306)

Sciences and Engineering (lots of tie races here and a very small margin!): 

1. Sam H. (147)
2. Glen B., James K. (110)
3. Max H. (102)
4. Cody F. (101)
5. Phillip M., Neha S. (100)

Business/Economics:

1. Esther Chow (109)
2. Han C. (86)
3. Uzma R. (84)
4. Kelvin W. (75)

July Week 2 Update

All of these races are real nail biters. You're all within just a few solutions of each other right now. Who will make it to the top? You've got two more weeks to fight it out.

Math:

1. L.Z. (333)
2. Ankur Bhatt (306)
3. Keryn G. (297)

Sciences and Engineering: 

1. Steve D. (80)
2. Tied at 75: Sam T., Kyle F.
3. Karen E. (72)

Business/Economics:

1. Michael T. (61)
2. Doug T. (60)
3. Han C. (48)

For now, it's Friday, and we're outta here. See you Monday!

July Week One Update: Back At It

July is upon us and you're all off to a running start. Here are the numbers.

Math:

1. Allen W. (243)
2. Jason S. (203)
3. Keryn G. (200)

Sciences and Engineering: 

1. Glen B. (60)
2. Tied at 50 between: Neha S., Max H., and Sugam K.

Business/Economics:

1. Han C. (48)
2. Star G. (43)
3. Geoff D. (30)

You've got the weekend ahead of you and lots of summer sunshine to keep you going. Have a great one!

Image via Lucy Hollis

July's Prize: Engraved White iPod Touch

Awesome work in June, everyone! We're excited to announce July's prize. 

Let the drumroll begin....

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Actually, that probably doesn't work on the Internet, seeing as how you can just scroll down and ignore all of this text. 

At any rate, it's a brand new 8GB white iPod Touch (5th gen) with personal engraving on the back! 

Use it to take photos, make videos, listen to all your favorite tunes, play games, watch videos and movies, and even use iMessage to text your friends for free! We're giving away one in each discipline to show our appreciation and get you pumped for next month's prize, which will be EVEN cooler. As if that were possible...

Photo via Apple