Homeschooling for 3

I just got this email in the mail and I thought it might be a great way for a biology whiz to get a free laptop. The rules are very specific so check your entries twice to make sure that you don’t get disqualified on a technicality. Here are the details:

Contest – Dell 15 Inch Laptop Computer

This contest is open to all homeschooling families subscribed to this newsletter – if you have homeschooling friends who would like to subscribe and participate in this contest, please forward this message to them. They can subscribe here:

http://www.HomeschoolScienceAcademy.com

One person will win this laptop. Here’s how to enter: (Hint: be careful

1. Go to this page http://www.homeschoolscienceacademy.com/OnlineClasses.htm Find the first word (key word #1) after the “creek photo” that ends with the same letter as the first letter of the name for the first section of the small intestine.
2. The third letter of the fourth word after key word #1 is the first letter of a bone (bone #1) whose fifth and sixth letters are “ib”.
3. Bone #1 is superior to a bone (bone #2) whose second and third letters are “ib” and this bone (bone #2) is anterior to a muscle whose second letter is “a”.
4. The first letter of bone #2 is the first letter in the name of a muscle (muscle #1) that is proximal to the Brachioradialis.
5. What is the name of muscle #1? (once you determine what this muscle name is, please keep it to yourself)
6. At exactly 9:37 pm eastern time on Tuesday, August 31, send email to:

• Email: Greg@LandryScience.com
• Subject line should be: “Laptop Contest”
• In the body of the message:

=> your name, age, state, and telephone number
=> what’s the name of muscle #1 from above?
=> state that you are in a homeschooling family

• Please email us ONE time only
• Students, please get your parents permission before emailing us.
• The person whose email we receive closest to exactly 9:37 pm eastern time on Tuesday, August 31, who has included the correct “muscle #1 name”, will win the laptop.

We’ll notify the winner via email or phone. Have fun!

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