Last Chance to Enter the ThinkGeek GeekMom $1000 Shopping Spree!

Friday is that last day to nominate your favorite GeekMom for ThinkGeek’s to win $1,000 Shopping Spree and Prize Pack! If you haven’t yet entered, head on over to the ThinkGeek contest page and tell us why your geeky mom should win the amazing prize pack put together by ThinkGeek and GeekMom. One more time, […]

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Friday is that last day to nominate your favorite GeekMom for ThinkGeek's to win $1,000 Shopping Spree and Prize Pack! If you haven't yet entered, head on over to the ThinkGeek contest page and tell us why your geeky mom should win the amazing prize pack put together by ThinkGeek and GeekMom. One more time, here's the list:

In addition to the Grand Prize winner above, ThinkGeek will give out prizes to five Honorable Mentions that include a GeekMom t-shirt plus one of the following:

To everyone who's already written in, we've loved going through your entries! Here are a few more samples:

From Kevin P:

I would like to nominate my Mother Annie Pascal, from the small town of Chipman New Brunswick in Canada, as the top GeekMom in ThinkGeek’s GeekMom Giveaway Contast!

At 69 years of age my GeekMom has smashed the generational barriers and lives each and every day as the geekiest Great GeekGrandmother I have ever heard of. She has come such a long ways since receiving her first computer about 7 years ago. Back then she would forget which mouse button to click.. install programs to her desktop and arbitrarily delete folders from her hard drive then wonder why programs wouldn’t work.

These days she has reached the highest levels of geek prowess with a five computer network, a huge flat screen TV with surround sound, a smart phone, a book reader, digital photo frames and even an MP3 player. Her main PC boasts a 24” monitor, a gaming mouse and keyboard and a smoking video card. She has effected all of the system upgrades herself, ordering online. Her latest upgrade, which she excitedly told family members about, was the purchase of an SSD while on vacation in Florida, so her PC would be better prepared for the upcoming release of Diablo III.

My GeekMom spends many hours a day online gaming, making purchases and looking into her many interests. During last weekend's Diablo III Open Beta she played around the clock managing to play every class of character through to the end of available Beta play. Some more than once!

Thank you for considering my GeekMom in ThinkGeek's GeekMom Giveaway. She is definitely the geekiest GeekMom I have ever met.. but more importantly she is the greatest Mom in the world. Win or lose, she is the tops in my book!

From Kathryn B:

My mother not only made sure that I knew that anything was possible, she helped me to discover those possibilities. When I was little, my mother encouraged me to explore brave new worlds in books and to seek out new life in the woods by our house. When other girls were playing with dolls and dressing up in tutus and tiaras, my mother was helping me construct Lego sets of spaceships and pirates while we watched episodes of The X-Files. When we constructed balsa wood racing cars at school during National Science Week, my mother, a civil engineer, volunteered to come in and explain the physics of friction and drag to me and my classmates. When I chose a science project by myself in sixth grade, my mother did not laugh at my desire to research dominant and recessive genes in Creatures, an artificial life computer game.
My mother never underestimated my ability to learn and understand because she knew that the same desire that burned in her also resided in me. As one of the first women to attend the US Coast Guard Academy, my mother knew that anything was possible and made sure that I knew it too. I write science fiction to illustrate the endless opportunities that are open to us, and it is my mother who is the one who made my present and my future possible.

From Katie:

How do I limit this to 1,500 characters when I could write a dissertation on how my mother raised me to be the geek that I am and loved me for it? I wouldn’t be who I am today without her. She sent me to science camp and fostered my love of cinema, music, books, space, philosophy, language, culture, art and about a bajillion other things. If I showed an interest in anything, she made sure I got to learn more about it. Other parents would have died if their kid wore a cloak in public. My Mom smiled and told me to have a good day at school. She didn’t mind that I wore Elf ears under the guise of “Christmas spirit” when the “Lord of the Rings” films were out. In fact, she was eager to see the movies with me and told everyone who asked about whom I was cosplaying. She’s just as excited for “The Hobbit.” We geek out over Marvel and DC movies together, which she got into because I was interested. We share our love of “Harry Potter.” When I was young, she played VHS’s of the old “Batman” TV show and told me about all the classic actors they got. We bonded over the ‘60’s “Dark Shadows,” Disney films, Britcoms (Especially “Blackadder”), and “The Wizard of Oz.” My parents have always been Trekkers and took me to a “Star Trek” convention when I was little to meet Mr. George Takei. She’s not very much into anime, but goes to conventions with me out of interest to broaden her horizons. When I was bullied mercilessly in school, she encouraged me to be who I was. She shared her love of books and reading with me. She’s shown interests in my geeky obsessions and has shared many of hers. She loves me BECAUSE I’m a peculiar mademoiselle, not in spite of it. She also does the same for my brother who’s 12-years-old and mad about all things mechanical.

From Anonymous in Syracuse:

In high school, I barely started reading Sci-Fi/Fantasy, when I met Abby. Soon, she had me loaded down with a pile of books to read, and we ended up reading the Pern books together. (Finding a pile of books to read at her place was pretty easy, since between Abby and her Dad, there were books piled everywhere!) When we ended up going to the same college, we hung out all the time in her dorm room, where she introduced me to several webcomics and movies. She even got me into knitting! She even tried introducing me to Roleplaying, but I had much more fun and was more comfortable listening to the story being created than actively participating, so I would hang out for games unless they were going to become more technical.

After college, Abby married an awesome geeky guy and they practically built a house of books. They moved a few years ago so he could work on his PhD, and were surprised to find a geekling of their own on the way! Now, her full time job has been raising the little guy on plenty of books and play time. They don't have a lot of money for extras and Christmas presents are mainly Amazon gift cards to get the books that are harder to find through the library system. (Or, will be read often enough that a library loan isn't quite as feasible.) I believe this GeekMom deserves a little pampering, and I would be proud to help!

And from Chris B:

Let me start off by saying that within the last three years I have been in Iraq for two of them. My wife and I have two children and she is the most resilient mother I have ever known. She feeds our children's overwhelming love for Star Wars, Legos, video games of all sorts, and comics. She is also tasked with all the duties that would normally belong to me, such as: dressing up as Indiana Jones and taking them on "adventures" in the forests of Louisiana, taking them to arcades, and to videogame stores. Not only does she help in the cultivating of our sons' geekiness, she is a bit of a geek herself. She owns a fairly large amount of vintage Star Wars clothes as well as Lego jewelry. She only wears custom made Converse shoes and her glasses (as well as mine) are as thick as the glass on an up armored military vehicle. My wife is a big fan of your site and I believe she is very well deserving of the contest win, though I am more than sure she will spend most of the shopping spree on our boys. Please consider her in the contest. Thank you.

Don't miss out! You have until 11:59pm ET Friday, May 4, 2012 to show us why we should pick your favorite GeekMom. Go to ThinkGeek to enter and read all the fine print. Winners will be announced the week following so they can get their goodies by Mother's Day, May 13. And good luck!