But the big prize comes a week later, on March 6, when 10 states hold contests, awarding a total of 437 delegates.
They have held health fairs, delivered lectures and staged quit-smoking contests, awarding Finland vacations to the lucky few who can stay off tobacco for a month.
Monday at 5 p.m. Presentation of house-decorating contest awards.
By Wallace White The New Yorker, December 17 , 1979P. 33 Talk story about the Zipp-In contest awards at City Hall.
Ideas.com also receives a commission of about 30percentt from the idea contest awards, paid by the companies.
The contest awards its delegates on a strictly proportional basis (the only requirement is that candidates must receive at least 3.57 percent of the vote to qualify for delegates).
It does seem to be a bit odd that the energy saving contest awards energy-gobbling gadgets as prizes instead of something like discounts on new insulation or weather strips, for example.
Started nearly a year ago, the $20 million online contest awards community grants monthly.
The contest awarded the whole lot to one winner, Dennis Amodeo, a carpenter from Long Island.
The committee is also using Facebook to hold a fan photo contest, awarding winners free tickets to events, and it has created Olympic minigames on the social network.
The contest awarded a grand prize of $250 to Peter Gibbons, a computer consultant, and was the brainchild of Peter van der Linden, a software engineer on Sun Microsystems's Solaris operating system.
