Apparently, I’m “not taking this seriously enough”. Even though I’ve posted about it several times on Facebook, I’ve Tweeted it multiple times, I’ve emailed all my coworkers about it and I posted about it here. I guess I’m supposed to do an entire post about it, so here it is.
Emily lost a good friend on January 10th to suicide. It has been very hard on her circle of friends and really on all of the seniors at Andover High School. It is a great tragedy. He was talented. He was well loved. He was funny. He is greatly missed. His name was Nick.
To honor/memorialize their friend, Max Roth made a video and submitted it to Dell’s Superprom Contest. If they win, they will get $100,000 to spend towards their prom. I think it would be awesome for them if they win. I don’t think it will make them forget Nick, or miss him less, but it would help to bring some happiness to their final year of high school that has been very difficult for them.
In addition, Max will also win something if he gathers the most individual votes. Since he’s the one who did all the work on the video, if Andover wins, he should rightfully win the individual contest. Some people inadvertently posted copies of his video. While all votes for a certain school go to that school, no matter which of the videos you vote on, the individual votes don’t go to Max. So when you go there to vote, please vote on the video that has Max’s name below it.
And here’s where you come in. Please go here. If you haven’t already, you will have to register. It takes a few minutes for them to send you a password (you can either stay logged in, or you can change your password by clicking on your name once you are logged in and choosing “edit” and then “sign-in information”), but when you get it, log in and vote for Andover High School (you just click on their high school in the standings on the left side). They are currently in 2nd place, but they have been in first on and off. With your help (all 10 of my readers) they could possibly win.
Please, please, please vote and vote everyday. There are 5 days left. Tell your friends, tell your family, post about it, Tweet and re-Tweet it, share it on Facebook. Whatever you have to do. If they don’t win, someone (ahem, Emily) will blame it on me. Dell, in their wisdom, has even made it easy for you to share it on various networking sites. So, if you do, I will be eternally grateful. I would offer something as an incentive, but I have NO money to buy the winner of any contest anything and I don’t think that you would like anything that I could make you. Also, I don’t have time to make anything. So, there’s that. I’ve been voting and voting and voting, but one person can only vote so many times, y’know.
So please vote. I love you. Thank you.
Done, m’dear! Just registered and voted and will vote each day until it closes. So, tell them they got five votes from Woodstock, GA! Woo hoo!
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CMGD–Thank you, dear! Emily will be happy to hear that.
Multiple votes from California, too.
We had someone commit suicide my senior year. So sad and such a senseless loss. Hugs to Emily.
Just voted. Will continue to do so daily.
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