Team Affiliated Geeks

If your’re wondering what happened with Team Affiliated Geeks for the first ever GISH:

Affiliated Geeks officially disbanded after the final GISHWHES, and is no longer active as a team.

Friends!

Help Team Affiliated Geeks do something great and wonderful this Gishwhes season - help us Change a Life!

Gishwhes is gathering funds to maintain a ballet school in Zolani, a township in South Africa, that is marked by extreme poverty and inequality. For children growing up there, the future holds little hope. But this school has done much more than teach ballet classes. Through ballet, Fiona Sargeant, its founder, has not just given the young students purpose, self-discipline and exercise, but through her selfless work, lives have been changed. Some of her former students are now dancing on scholarships in New York and London. What Fiona has given the children of Zolani through her ballet school is hope.

In 2016, at the age of just 51, Fiona was diagnosed with cancer. In February of this year, Fiona received the devastating news that her cancer was inoperable. With this fundraiser, we will grant her dying wish. (She has no idea we are going to do this! We are going to surprise her with this colossal random act of kindness at the end of the Hunt! So if anyone reading this is a friend of hers, PLEASE don't share your post or tell her about this until AFTER the Hunt! )

Click the link and donate kindly and generously, and be part of this effort that will literally change lives. Minimum donation is only $10, and all funds will go directly to the cause!

With very many thanks,

Hello fellow Gishers! 

Today we ask your support and incredible kindness on behalf of one of our own. Nicole has been a member of AffiliatedGeeks for many years and is our resident expert in all things art and puns, and she is in need of a kidney transplant.

You might have seen this around on twitter via some very generous signal boosts from the #SPNFamily, but there’s still something you can do to help:

Signal boost!

Support the fundraiser above, which is to cover all medical expenses, as well as the cost of travel for the matching donor, and accomodation so they can recuperate. After all bills are paid, excess will go towards Random Acts and GISHWHES, and Gishscholarships.

Also check out this link (also in the description) to see whether you could be a matching kidney donor.

Thank you!

Not at this moment, no - we are currently in the process of inviting previous applicants, and if all goes to plan should have a full team.

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Join Team Affiliated Geeks for Gishwhes 2017!

We’ve opened our first round of applications! If you’re in it to win it and looking to join a 3 time runner up team, fill out our application form today!

Here is the form!

(It’s not scary, don’t worry! And neither are we. We might be competitive, but working together as a friendly and inclusive team is also a top priority. :) We have previously accomodated work commitments, illness and hurricanes!)

Bonus Points if you:

Live or have close contacts in any of the continents (such as Asia, Australia, South America…) and/or countries not yet covered by the team! (Most of us are from the UK and US)

Have abnosome video editing skills!

Have lots of friends/family/flat mates/acquaintances nearby that will help with group items!

The hunt is likely to be in the first week of August again, but there have been no official announcements yet.

We made runners up *again*! :D

Congrats to Team Raised From Perdition @teamraisedfromperdition for winning Gishwhes 2016 and at all our fellow runners up!