Penny Wars - The Results Edition

The results are in for the much-anticipated Penny Wars. Before I reveal the winner, here's a picture of the jars prior to the counting:

[P1, P2, and P3 Jars]

Based on the height of the jars alone, you may notice a couple things

• The P1 and P2 jars are nearly equal in height
• The P2 jar has a lot of bills on top
• Tiffany Pfundt's jar is the highest and has even more bills (due to the P2's scrambling on the last day to level out the P3's)

From this angle, you can see a nice hefty, rolled up wad of bills in Tiffany's jar:

COUNTING

Counting the coins is no easy task, and thankfully, we have a TCF Bank nearby with a coin counter. Just dump the coins in and wait, right? Oops! We have to remove the bills first... Great, now what do we do?

[Dominick Rutherford manually taking out the bills one-by-one]

Putting our tuition dollars to good use:

[Eric Zhao and Jenna Bognaski with The Michigan Difference. Rachel Joseph telling a joke.]

But wait, there's more! James McKenzie comes along with his wise P3 knowledge:

[They don't give us Pharm.D.'s for nothing]

THE RESULTS

I know the pharmacy students have already received an email with the results, so I am posting this for the zero people on the world wide web following us on our suspenseful journey. Here is the breakdown of each class:

P1

• Quarters (qty): 193
• Dimes: 158
• Nickels: 120
• Pennies: 2469

• Total coins (amt): $94.74
• Bills (amount): $89.00
• Total score: 574 points

P2

• One Dollar Coins (qty): 4
• Quarters: 336
• Dimes: 523
• Nickels: 252
• Pennies: 1769

• Total coins (amt): $170.59
• Bills (amt): $84.00
• Total score: 8,659 points

P3

• Quarters: 551
• Dimes: 485
• Nickels: 295
• Pennies: 2225

• Total coins (amt): $233.25
• Bills (amt): $133.00
• Total score: 10,025 points

And the winner of 2010 Penny Wars is..........................Tiffany Pfundt!! And the Class of 2011!! Congratulations!!!! Overall, we raised a mind-blasting total of $804.58 for Relay For Life. Looking forward to the War next year!

-EZ

PS The P1's had the most pennies in their jar, so I'm wondering if they took Penny Wars a little too literally. We'll name it Quarter Wars for them next year, or better yet, Sacagawea Golden Dollar Coin Wars.

Penny for your thoughts?

Ladies and gents, we are midway through penny wars (ending March 29th), and I have some pretty pics on our progress. Again, the rules are coins are positive and paper is negative.

THE CHEMICAL WASTE JARS:

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It's the P1's vs. the P2's vs. the P3's. Apparently the faculty/staff and P4's have much better things to do than to help find the cure for cancer. On a different note, who put BCE on the P2 jar?? Someone told me it stands for 'Best Class Ever,' but I have no cited sources to back that up. Fairly accurate though if I do say so myself.

THE CHEMICAL WASTE JARS (ALTERNATIVE VIEW)

[click to enlarge]

As you can see, the P1 jar is pretty full...OF DOLLAR BILLS! Don't be deceived though, because the P2/BCE jar has a Jackson and two Hamilton's wreaking papery havoc on the coins. Those conniving P1's... At this point, I think the P3's are winning, despite their lack of jarry goodness, mainly because the P1's and P2's are both deeeeeeeep in the negatives.

PS Whoever lost a silver ring with diamond-like stones, approximately size 7 and 1/2, please go to the office to claim. The message has been on the whiteboard for weeks, and I need room to play tic-tac-toe

-EZ

Fundraisers Update

Check out this list of upcoming fundraisers:

• Euchre Tournament: March 23rd
  
• Penny Wars: P1 vs P2 vs P3 duke it out until March 29th
  
• Blue Leprechaun Bar Night: March 26th
• Mia Zas: March 31 from 4-10pm
• bd's Mongolian Grill: April 6th at 6pm
• Bucketing
• RFL Jail: On-site fundraiser
• Selling purple ribbons: On-site fundraiser

For those of you interested in our past fundraisers:

• Bake Sale: $284.24 (Heads: Liz Kelly and Alison Van Kampen)
• Bucketing: $537.38 and counting (Head: Dominick Rutherford)
• T-Shirt Sales: $258.13 (Heads: Jenni Cena and Jenna Bognaski)

Our top 5 fundraising individuals. Can you compete?

• Melinda Tran: $410.01
• Carrie Zechmeister: $290
• Philip Kong/Kelly Louie: $280 (I dunno about this pairing up business...)
• Bernard Marini: $260
• Tess Lin: $250

Again, every $20 raised gets an entry into the raffle for a $50 gift card and two $25 gift cards.

-EZ