NORTH CYPRUS UNIVERSITY FREERICE CHALLENGE 2012

The NORTH CYPRUS UNIVERSITY FREERICE challenge is on again for 2012.  Last year, Middle East Technical University and Eastern Mediterranean University battled it out, with EMU coming out on top.  You can follow the progress of the challenge in the chart below.


In case you are new to FREERICE, here is a video that explains how playing this online game can help fight the war on hunger.

Bookmark this post, which will include an interactive chart of the competition which we'll update daily.

How to start?

Just go to http://freerice.com and create an account if you don't have one.

You need to JOIN the http://freerice.com/content-group/emu-2012-north-cyprus-challenge.  The group page should look like this:

After you login for the first time, go to GROUPS and search for EMU. Join the EMU FREERICE CHALLENGE 2012

When viewing the GROUP DASHBOARD click PLAY (button is on the right) to send any rice that you start earning to that group. 

MAKE SURE you PLAY for our EMU group each time you log in, so that the grains of rice are allocated to our group.

Please encourage your peers to play.  If only 200 EMU students and staff spend 15 minutes playing FREERICE before the 31st, they will each earn 5,000 grains of rice, or 1,000,000 grains in total.  That would put enough to put the pressure on METU to keep up.

Thanks to Steve Neufeld for the post - edited by Nevin

Free Rice - Competition Winners

After weeks of excitement, EMU EPS students beat METU students in the Free Rice challenge between the two universities. EMU students easily won the challenge by donating over 1,500,000 grains of rice and feeding over 100 hungry people.

Congratulations to our highest scorer Hikmet, and his 103-07 classmates Niyazi and Acelya for their amazing contributions to the challenge.

The Free Rice Challenge

Steve Neufeld and METU (N. Cyprus) have challenged the SFL teachers and students to take part in the FREE RICE CHALLENGE.


What is Free Rice?

Free rice is a website where users play various educational, multiple-choice games in order to fight world hunger. For every question the user answers correctly, 10 grains of rice are donated.


How Do I Play?

1- Go to www.freerice.com and sign up. (EMU email addresses do NOT work, so please use an alternate email address)

2- Search and join the EMU SFL Instructors Group.

3- Start playing to donate rice and beat the METU staff.


How Can My Students Play?

1- Go to www.freerice.com and sign up. (EMU email addresses do NOT work, so please use an alternate email address)

2- Search and join the EMU SFL Students Group.

3- Start playing to donate rice and beat the METU students.

Good luck!!!