GEEKS UNITE: Global Geek Week Launches Today #geeks4good

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Adam Hirsch
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GEEKS UNITE: Global Geek Week Launches Today #geeks4good
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Submit your geek inspired video to the Global Geek Week YouTube Group for the chance to win two roundtrip main cabin tickets to anywhere Virgin America flies, with Gogo passes so you can use WiFi to blog about the experience. Our Judges, including Guy Kawasaki, Shira Lazar, Hank Green of Vlogbrothers, Marina Orlova of TooHotForWords, puzzle champion Wei-Hwa Huang and Lisa Donovan aka LisaNova, will pick and announce the winners on Friday.

In addition, all week long we're encouraging you to tweet and share how geeks can change the world (include the hashtag "#Geeks4Good"). Donate and keep up-to-date with video submissions, check out the twittervision global #geeks4good map and more at globalgeekweek.com. "Embrace your inner geek and give back!"

Details

Submit your geek inspired video to the Youtube Global Geek Week group by midnight Thursday PT and be sure to include the tag "geeks4good". Videos should be two minutes long or less.

Videos will be judged and the winner will be announced on Friday at noon PT.

The Global Geek Week winner gets two roundtrip main cabin tickets to anywhere Virgin America flies, with Gogo passes so they can use WiFi to blog about the experience.

Bonus: Some ideas

- How do you geek out?

- What makes you a geek?

- How are geeks going to make the world a better place?

Thanks to Virgina America for the Grand Prize

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Thanks to Summer of Social Good Sponsors

Thanks to Zappos and MailChimp for sponsoring the Summer of Social Good. Their generous sponsorship covers the campaign and event costs, so that 100% of your donations and ticket sales go to the fund.

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