What's Inside You Contest: Top 10 Vote-Getters
For those of you who have been following the Intel What's Inside You Contest, you might be wondering what the top 10 stories are that got the most community votes. Well, we have the results and I'm going to share them here . First, though, a few words about the contest.
This was the first time Intel ran a contest like this one where we asked people to submit their stories, along with photos or videos explaining how they use an Intel processor to do something innovative. We're really happy with the results of the contest. First, nearly 50 stories that were submitted! Unfortunately, though, not all of them actually qualified for the contest. For example, for legal reasons, this contest was only open to U.S. residents, as stated in the contest rules and regulations. So if you submitted a story and you're from somewhere outside the U.S., unfortunately your story doesn't qualify for the contest, but we are featuring ALL stories on the What's Inside You site.
Secondly, many people who submitted successfully got their friends, family, co-workers and others to support them by voting for their submission as a favorite. The community certainly had a voice here, which was great to see. As with any new program, we certainly learned a lot having run this one and we did run into some bumps in the road, which my colleague Annie explained here. We know that the voting could have been hacked and that's why we added the judging element to the contest. But, we're getting some great feedback on ways we might be able to address this in future contests, so thank you to those who are sharing their tips.
Determining the top 3 winners of the contest will now be left in the very capable hands of our esteemed panel of judges. They'll evaluate the top 10 submissions evaluated on the relevance of the processor in the design and innovative use of technology, as well as overall creativity. The grand, second and third prize winners will be officially announced on March 2.
Now... here's a look at the top 10 stories. Congratulations to these folks!
- Beautiful as blown glass, made from family photos
- Triple Booting
- Music Animation
- Intel helped me graduate
- Create anything
- What a difference!
- Digital Expression
- Student Designer
- Whats in the boxx
- Blix
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Comments
Jan 27 | Andrew said:
Good Luck Everyone!!
Jan 28 | BONH said:
Oh man, I'm going to have an anxiety attack! I can't wait.
Feb 03 | Dileish said:
Hi...
I am out of this contest & i can understand the situation.
But one question....
WIY contest for a resident of the United States, not for US Citizens. am i right?
The prizes will send to US address only. At the time of entering into the contest, all the 48 entries had given their US address for sending the T-Shirts.
Any foreigner( Outside the US) cant reside in America???
Lots of Indians were residing in US, they cant participate in this contest?
If they participate, certainly they give their country as India. For that reason you people eliminating that entry from the Contest?
Feb 03 | Sanjay said:
Apparently there were a lot of afterthoughts on this contest. I've seen a few blogs pointing out the serious flaws, (as well as the Inside scoop comment that was posted in Annie's entry). It's too bad that on the final day massive amounts of votes flooded in and kicked out a lot of long time top 10 entries. It's not right that many of these last minute top ten vote entries blatently cheated, but I feel it's also not right that Intel designed and executed this contest knowing that this could happen. It's too bad for those legit entries that got bounced below the top 10. I really hope in the future that Intel does more to prevent spam voting, that is if they even bother doing another contest.
Feb 03 | Annie said:
Hi everyone - I sincerely appreciate your feedback. From Intel's perspective, I would like to once again remind everyone that the final decision is currently in the Judges' hands; we are not adjusting the rules based on any feedback received at this time. I personally am looking forward to hearing who won the Contest. Overall, the 48 total entries we received showed incredible creativity. All of the entries were really fun to see. As Sanjay pointed out, we are reviewing this contest, looking at ways to improve it and make it more global, and while we aren't committing to anything at this time, this blog is the best place to stay in tune with the team responsible. I hope this helps.