Join us this week for our Spring Forward Giveaway. We’re giving away Free Starbucks just for sharing your study materials!

From Monday March 22^nd – Sunday March 28^th, GradeGuru will be giving out free Starbucks Gift Cards to every 10^th person that shares their study materials.

Things to keep in mind:

• We’re looking for study guides, chapter summaries…anything you’ve created that can help others.
• Students that share work created by their professor like tests, PowerPoints, etc. and images/information from the internet will not be eligible to win.
• Limited one gift card per student

Tell your friends, tell your classmates and most importantly – share this link: Starbucks Giveaway on Facebook or Twitter to get the word out.

Follow winners on our Facebook and Twitter pages!

Are you a graphic designer, interested in graphic design or know someone who is? submit your application for the GradeGuru Design Challenge and enter to become our next freelance designer.  The winner of the competition will earn $100, have their design implemented as part of McGraw-Hill Education’s first web startup (nice for your portfolio) and then become our ongoing freelance design consultant  at a rate of $20/hour. The Deadline is March 8th, 2010.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT YOUR DESIGNS

There are two ways to enter the competition:

1. Design a GradeGuru Facebook Page

One of the first projects for our design challenge winner will be to redesign our Facebook page to include a multi-page, user-friendly layout that communicates the GradeGuru brand and motivates users to become fans. For the submission, we would like to see how you would design the landing page of Facebook.com/gradeguru.

A few things to keep in mind:

• Include the GradeGuru logo and brand identity
• The goal of the landing page is to capture the attention of new viewers, turn them into fans, engage them with our content
• Don’t worry so much about the copy
• The page should include the GradeGuru logo, buttons

Fan pages we like: AT&T, Pringles, Adidas

2. Design a stylish GradeGuru t-shirt for a national online giveaway contest

Design styles we like: American Apparel, retro athletic jerseys, Japanese pop art, urban pop art (graffiti inspired)

Brand assets

• GradeGuru Blog
• GradeGuru Blog About Page (logos included)
• GradeGuru Privileges
• GradeGuru Vimeo Video Channel