Etna, NH -- Fetch Softworks is celebrating the new school year with the "Take Fetch Back to School" essay contest. Students, teachers, and other school employees in the U.S. can win an Apple MacBook or iPod nano by sharing how they use Fetch in their academic work.
Fetch, the original Mac FTP file transfer program, has been a mainstay of schools and colleges since its first release at the start of the 1989 fall term. It's the perfect tool for submitting an assignment, updating a course website, downloading a data set, sending a course catalog to the printers, and countless other academic tasks.
This back-to-school season, Fetch Softworks is asking its users to describe how Fetch helps them reach their educational goals. From Monday, September, 10, 2007 to Friday, September 21, 2007, Fetch Softworks will accept contest entries at http://fetchsoftworks.com/back-to-school.
Contest judges will look for the most creative, impressive and unusual ways that entrants take advantage of Fetch's combination of features, reliability and ease of use. One grand prize winner will receive a new Apple MacBook (Black), a retail value of $1,499, plus $750 in cash. Four runners-up will each win an Apple iPod nano (8GB, video), a $199 retail value, plus $100 in cash, and all five winners will receive a Fetch plush toy. The winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 2, 2007. Contest rules can be found at http://fetchsoftworks.com/back-to-school. Note: The contest is limited to residents of the continental United States, Alaska, and Hawaii.
From the very beginning, Fetch has been available free of charge to schools and charities, in order to support their educational and benevolent missions. The application form for free licenses is online at http://fetchsoftworks.com/edapply. The latest release, Fetch 5.2, is a Universal binary with support for secure file transfers using SFTP and FTPS, as well as FTP. For more information about Fetch, visit http://fetchsoftworks.com.
For further information contact:
Fetch Softworks
PO Box 72
Etna, NH 03750
info@fetchsoftworks.com
http://fetchsoftworks.com
Voicemail/FAX: +1 603-619-0397
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[Update: the contest is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! The winners will be announced on Tuesday, October 2, 2007.]
Comments (36)
Hope I won this...Would help me out alot in school
Posted by Karen palmer on September 17, 2007 11:26 AM
would love to win this for my kids!
Posted by Elizabeth Duncan on September 17, 2007 1:16 PM
This would be extremely useful for me. School, job, family- it's not easy!
Posted by Jennifer Kalstrup on September 17, 2007 1:24 PM
Starting back to school after having 3 kids. This will help financially.
thanks
Posted by Alishia Huff on September 17, 2007 2:03 PM
What a cool prize, I would love to use this for starting up my business!
Posted by Corrie Pope on September 17, 2007 4:04 PM
My son would love this.
Posted by Stacey Bradley on September 17, 2007 6:42 PM
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this contest. I have been entering contests, online, for a couple of years and I have won only one 1 contest. Maybe, I will get lucky and win this contest.
Posted by Dale C Rodberg on September 17, 2007 7:11 PM
great prize
Posted by Jeanne Muehlbauer on September 17, 2007 8:09 PM
Good Luck to All!!
Posted by Terry Smith on September 17, 2007 8:13 PM
This win would be a dream come true I can't even imagine............good luck to who ever wins this fantastic prize!
Posted by Rita Green on September 17, 2007 9:41 PM
I cannot wait to win this :) haha. But it would be nice and I could DEFINITELY use it.
Posted by Jessica White on September 18, 2007 12:22 AM
Oh this is a great prize. Back to school time always hits us parents hard in the pocket!
Posted by Evelyn on September 18, 2007 12:27 PM
Oooh, Shiny.
Posted by Michael Jacobs on September 18, 2007 2:41 PM
As a teacher of 3rd and 5th grade, this would be a great thing to win! I'm always using the computer to design worksheets and type quizes and other school related handouts.
Posted by Corinne Schoenick on September 18, 2007 4:09 PM
this prize is awsome I hope I win I would LOVE to win this prize It would be ssssssoooooooo awsome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Danielle Ruggiero on September 18, 2007 4:12 PM
I love this prize. It is something I could use.
Posted by Teresa Hartkopf on September 18, 2007 7:58 PM
I hope I win. I need a win!
Posted by nancy on September 18, 2007 9:24 PM
The grandkids would love to have their own computer! Hope I win!
Posted by Nancy Blaisdell on September 18, 2007 9:28 PM
Love the prize I would like to have one of them.
Posted by Raymond Pickens, III on September 19, 2007 10:53 AM
mmmmmm, mac-y goodness
Posted by TOM ROBBINS on September 19, 2007 12:45 PM
As an I.T. wanna be I would love to win this.
Posted by Andrea Bates on September 19, 2007 3:20 PM
This would be SO helpful to me on the road! I travel 3 weeks per month for the college. Please pick me!
Posted by jackie pressinger on September 19, 2007 9:06 PM
help, need a computer for kids.
Posted by theresa parks on September 20, 2007 2:53 AM
My kids really need a laptop. Hope we win!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Michele lewis on September 20, 2007 9:16 AM
This would be fantastic - my son's laptop crashed about 2 months ago during a lightning storm and the cost to repair it will cost as much as a new laptop, we just have not be able to afford to do that.
Posted by Amber R on September 20, 2007 2:57 PM
Just starting taking HTML and web development classes. I use fetch when working from my Mac at home. Would love a little help getting through the semester.
Posted by kelly loyd on September 20, 2007 4:27 PM
i would love to win this!!!!!!!!
Posted by gina snow on September 21, 2007 12:26 AM
My kids have been begging for laptop!! desktop is trashed and old.
Posted by Dawn Thomas on September 21, 2007 7:53 AM
I hope im not the only broad who's still stuck in the 90's this year! I need some upgrading
Posted by Genevieve on September 21, 2007 9:46 AM
That would look so cool on my desk
Posted by Bruce Keeler on September 21, 2007 10:00 AM
Please send it to me!
Posted by RFrakes on September 21, 2007 12:13 PM
I want these!
Posted by Adhab Al-Farhan on September 21, 2007 1:23 PM
thats cool
Posted by valerie harris on September 21, 2007 2:40 PM
I did a advertising research project on the macbook and i have wanted one ever since. This would be the best surprise EVER if i won! PLEASE!!!! My Dell is going to blow up any day!
Posted by Devin Lboo on September 21, 2007 3:58 PM
hey i would love to have this for my biz im starting up cuz im really help
Posted by abby lambert on September 21, 2007 5:00 PM
I really, really need a MacBook!
Posted by Reeta Harrison on September 21, 2007 6:12 PM