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We're donating $10,000 to the cause

The Groundspeak Lackeys entered the DARPA Balloon Network Challenge on December 5, 2009. In the end we didn't win the $40,000 for charity, but we're still donating $10,000 of our own money to DonorsChoose.org programs.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

East Coast balloons down, 3 more to go

As DARPA sends down their East Coast balloons, geocachers have been on the march across the country with their GPS units hunting down red balloons. We have 7 confirmed balloons so far, and we're still looking. Thanks for all of your help out there!

If you see a red balloon, please send us the coordinates, a picture (if possible) and the number of the balloon to darpa@groundspeak.com.
Posted by at 1:10 PM

5 comments:

  1. Aaarrrgh! I want to see where they are! I also want us to win, so I understand the secrecy... =)
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  3. Oh YA!!!!!
    WTG Geocachers!
    Still none out my window....
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  4. NY Magazine has a brief on-line article:http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/keep_a_look_out_for_red_balloo.html

    They say Nerdfighters will donate their winnings to charity making everyone else look lame; I made sure to post that Groudspeak will donate the prize plus some. Go guys!

    Trixie
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  5. Was rather hoping that the DARPA site would put a status update of "taken down" on the ones that have been removed, to at least narrow down the time zones of the missing balloons, but no go...
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