Abbee Jefferies is our 2007-2008 winner!!!
Abbee has received the keys to her new 2008 Honda Civic, a full scholarship to WTAMU, and $250 in shopping money at Westgate Mall!
Dennis Underwood and Carissa Miranda were the two runners up and won $1000/ year for four years to WTAMU and $100 each to spend at the mall.
Please keep checking the site for updates. We will have more videos archived soon, edits of news coverage, and a new highlight video for next year all coming in the weeks ahead.
If you have any questions about fullrideproject ™ please see our FAQ's or News Updates. Also, please feel free to contact us with any thoughts or feedback you have for the students or project. Thank you!
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Please join us as we announce our final winner on Saturday May 24th at Westgate Mall Center-Court at 2pm!
The two runners up will win $1000/ year for four years to WTAMU and the winner will receive a new Honda Civic and a full scholarship to WTAMU. We will also post the results online after the event.
You can view the top ten candidate videos HERE.
Below you can click and view the top three candidate video profiles:
If you have any questions about fullrideproject ™ please see our FAQ's or News Updates. Also, please feel free to contact us with any thoughts or feedback you have for the students or project. Thank you!
The fullrideproject ™ 2007-2008 Top Three Are...
Abbee Jefferies
Carissa Miranda
Dennis Underwood
The other seven students all received new HP laptops while the top three will continue to the final round!
Voting for the final winner will begin on Monday May 12th at midnight and will then run for only one week until 11:59pm on Monday May 19th.
The final winner will be announced on Saturday May 24th – one week before graduation - at Westgate Mall Center-Court at 2pm!
Over 13,000 of you were registered voters casting over 140,000 votes - an average of ten votes per person either by text or online. The website has had almost 100,000 visits to date, with 419,000 pageviews.
Thousands of people, including online visitors and voters from every state in the U.S. and beyond, have benefited from the stories of these awesome students. They are great role models for all of us and they have paved the way for us to find more like them every year, and help them achieve their dreams.
We will have the students stories and videos back up soon. Also, we'll have a new home page ready for the final round of voting that will include new and more in depth candidate profile videos for the top three.If you have any questions about fullrideproject ™ please see our FAQ's. Thank you
Due to the overwhelming response to the project...
...we are upgrading server capacity to handle the amount of web traffic and to repair a security breach in the voting system.
THANK YOU for your amazing support for this project and these awesome students!
Voting will zeroed out and restart as soon as possible in order to ensure the integrity of the voting process. We will be up drinking coffee and working hard until you can get back online and vote for your favorite students with absolute confidence in the process.
Stay tuned for more information!
The voting system is now enabled to handle multiple votes from a business, school, church, etc, that may share one IP address. Rather than limiting to one IP address, votes are now limited to any given computer's individual user accounts. So, even if you share one computer you may still get a vote per/ user account (e.g. "user account" meaning the number of accounts on your computer as in when you log into windows or your mac as "Mom" or "Suzie" or whoever). Just log in to your computer account and vote then log out and let the next person log in, etc. There are no user accounts hosted by this website.
We will continue to closely monitor the system for any difficulties. Please use the contact page if you experience any, but check these updates for answers. We do get your comments and we will respond here rather than individually. Thank you to those of you who have let us know.
Happy Voting!!!
With over 4000 votes cast already in the second day of voting we've had a few technical issues. Also, the IP restrictions have put too many unnesessary restraints on voting.
SO, as of today we will be changing the system to a personal registration/ tracking system. For all of you who have emailed us with questions or any technical challenges: Hang in there - we're not ignoring you! : - )
We're working our tails off to make sure there things are secure, fair, and as easy to use as possible.
Southwest Honda and the Full Ride team are proud to announce that we were honored to win a gold addy award for 2007 for the first Full Ride Project Ad. The ad first aired on TV on December 17, 2007 and will run until the next add airs starting the second week of March.
Southwest Honda was the client and is the primary sponsor of the Full Ride Project.
Patrick Kemp with ThreeLeaf Creative, Joseph Schlabs of Joseph Elliot Photography, and Andy Roller of Expio Leadership Consulting created, directed, and produced the ad.
Thank you to all the partners, sponsors, and participants of this project for your continued and overwhelming support of this project.
It's on...
Over the next few weeks our Candidate Selection Team will be reviewing and verifying applications. As the project leader, I've already read through all the applications and we have some tough decisions ahead.
Once we select the ten candidates, then we will publish their profiles here on the website for YOU to vote. Voting details will be available then. Be looking for our new ads and web updates around the second week of March. Until then, check back here for blog updates.
The official deadline has passed. We want to thank you for your support. The selection team will be spending the next few weeks reviewing all of the applications. We will be selecting 10 finalists, so be sure and check back in a few weeks to vote for your favorite candidate. In the mean, time we would love to get any feedback you have on the project so far. Click here to send us your comments. THANK YOU and BEST WISHES!
We are so excited about the positive response that we have received from this campaign. We have had over 5,000 visits to the website, and we have already received numerous applications. If you haven't applied yet, be sure and do so by January 31st.
1. Fill out the online application form.
2. Have your 3 references submitted.
3. Apply to West Texas A&M University: Admissions as well as Scholarships.
It's that simple!