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Thanks to all the participants who joined in on Saturday night's inaugural Tech Search Party. Over 50 teams competed which resulted in raising more than $10,000 dollars to benefit Alvarado Elementary School.
Here are the winners:
1st Place: Indomitable Immersion Mamas.
They received party pack from Radio Alice, including two tickets to upcoming Bon Jovi concert
2nd Place: 26 Skidoo.
They get a $100 gift certificate from Geeknet
3rd Place: Noe Way Jose.
Recipients of a $75 Geeknet gift certificate
4th Place: 2+2=5. Winners of a $25 Geeknet gift certificate.
Other prizes awarded:
Best Team Name
Getting to the Dubliner Has Never Been This Hard
Received a collection of games from Electronic Arts
Best PR Team
The ScaVantagers from Vantage Communications edged out the team from Bite PR, who unwisely decided to stop for pizza. The ScaVantagers win a "Dream Date with Kara Swisher"
Best Political Team
Four District 8 Supervisor candidate teams duked it out to win Mayor Gavin Newsom's endorsement. Well, actually, a baseball autographed by the mayor.
Candidate Scott Wiener's team was the happy recipient of the award which could swing the election.
Thanks to all the sponsors and donors:
Big shout out to Geeknet who kicked in the gift certificates. Google and Salesforce.com for their support. Circle Bank, who will be opening up an office in Noe Valley soon.
All four District 8 Supervisor candidates generously supported the event, and District 8's current Supervisor Bevan Dufty came by to lend his support.
Thanks again to the folks at Metromint and David Rio for providing a selection of mint water, tea and chai to participants.
Thanks to Travis and Mike from ITDatabase for rallying the PR community and handing our free books.
To Electronic Arts for donating a bunch of games to be given out as prizes.
Thanks to The Dubliner for hosting the after-party.
Stay tuned for a chance to win kid/cryptography iPhone app from Secret Ada
Special thanks to Jason Hofsess of CitySolve Urban Race for lending his support and experience. For those of you now hooked on scavenger hunts, get thee to CitySolve
Looking for last night's questions and answers, click here.
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