Gobblerfest is a great way for students to meet each other, explore common interests, and become a part of the Virginia Tech community. Student organizations, businesses, non-profit organizations, and Virginia Tech departments offer food, games, free giveaways, and information at booths around the Virginia Tech Drillfield.

Creating Internship Awareness

Follow My Vote offers internships every semester. We are currently taking applications on our website and we wanted to make sure all Virginia Tech students were aware of these opportunities. Our marketing internship is our most popular internship. We teach interns how the world of digital media works. Interns build their skills learning branding techniques and marketing software used by companies and agencies around the world.  Follow My Vote internships are a great way to prove value and earn a full time position at the company.

Blockchain Education

Follow My Vote was recently featured in Forbes for pioneering advancements in the voting industry with blockchain technology. We can now use software to safeguard against vote rigging and give voters the ability to verify that their vote was correctly cast.

Students welcomed our knowledge of blockchain technology and eagerly asked questions about how our voting software works.

The Raffle

Towards the end of the event, Follow My Vote held a raffle for some Hokie gear and Follow My Vote t-shirts. Here are the winners!

We had a great time at Virginia Tech’s Gobblerfest and we would highly suggest local businesses join us next year. Students held all sorts of booths for different clubs. We got some cool pictures of cars, breakdancing and displays students had created. See our Facebook album for all the pictures from the event.

About the author: Will Long is the Marketing Manager of Follow My Vote.

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We started off Gobblerfest 2015 by getting people to join our supporters list and giving away  Follow My Vote T-shirts!  Students were genuinely exited about our online voting solution. They were happy to hear that we want students to use our voting software for all sorts of campus elections, especially for the Student Government Association. If you are a Virginia Tech Student consider signing this petition for the SGA to use an honest and accurate online voting system!  If you’re not a Tech student, but want your school to use our online voting platform, let us know.

One of the best parts of Gobblerfest 2015 was getting on the radio! Follow My Vote Founder and CEO, Adam Kaleb Ernest was able to get on 105.3 The Bear. 105.3 is a local rock radio station that was covering Gobblerfest 2015. Adam was able to talk about Follow My Vote and the future of online voting. The disc jokey was all about what we are doing at Follow My Vote and expressed his excitement on air for secure and transparent online voting!

Check out the line we had at our booth! Gobblerfest 2015 was a fantastic event. We had a lot of fun interacting with students. We even brought our voting system demo to show off. You can see Follow My Vote CTO, Nathan Hourt demoing the software for students in the picture below.

It was unfortunate but Gobblerfest 2015 ended a bit early due to inclement weather. We apologize if you were planning on swinging by our booth near the end of the event. Even though our parade got rained on, the event was still a great success with many more online voting supporters and students informed about our online voting technology.

Check out our Facebook album to see more pictures from the event!

About the author: Will Long is the Marketing Manager of Follow My Vote.

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This event this year will be held on the Virginia Tech Drillfield on September 4th from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Virginia Tech’s Gobblerfest has been a huge success for Follow My Vote. This will be our third year attending!  We have blog posts covering our previous appearances (Gobblerfest 2014 and Gobblerfest 2013) that are worth reading.

We have many goals this year at Virginia Tech’s Gobblerfest. We plan to engage with students and invite them to join our grassroots movement for online voting! Here are a few of the items we will be sharing with students! Let us know what you think in the comment section and make sure to check our booth out if you’re in Blacksburg.

In preparation, we have designed a page on our site specifically for Hokies. Check out why we think Virginia Tech students should join our cause!

We will also be handing out these flyers! Pretty cool right?

At Follow My Vote, we believe that petitions are a strong force for effective change. Petitioning the SGA at Virginia Tech could be a huge stepping stone for online voting technology and put Virginia Tech on the map for being on the forefront of new technology in the voting industry.

If you are still not convinced you need to swing by, we will be giving out Follow My Vote T-shits and koozies! And if your into raffles, get excited! Because we will be raffling off several Virginia Tech T-shirts! (the raffle winners will be announced at 7:00 p.m. at our booth)

About the author: Will Long is the Marketing Manager of Follow My Vote.

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At Gobblerfest, clubs and organizations setup booths and hand out information about why students should join their respective club. The diversity of clubs at Virginia Tech is phenomenal. There is really a club or team for every type of student. Whether they are interested in scuba diving, Greek life, or entrepreneurship, a student can find his or her niche to make the most of their college experience.

Gobblerfest is also an opportunity for local businesses to advertise, in hopes that students will use their products or services throughout their college career. Property management firms hand out information on apartments, while local restaurants sell food. Gobblerfest would not operate at the same caliber without these businesses sponsoring the event.

Follow My Vote has been a sponsor of Gobblerfest 2013 and Gobblerfest 2014, having great success both years!

This September, while promoting at Gobblerfest, our aim was to inform students about our newest software development project, an online open-source voting platform, in order to create some buzz for it’s upcoming release. We anticipated that students would be interested in learning more about our online voting solution that provides complete transparency and security. Thus, it came as no surprise that we drew a crowd of intrigued students chomping at the bit to discover what Follow My Vote was all about, starting from the moment the event began!

This gave us a chance to explain some of the cool technologies behind the voting software like blockchain technology and cryptography. When informing students of our plans to develop an online voting platform, we gave away Follow My Vote schwag in exchange for signing up to test out the beta version of the app as soon as it’s ready to go. At the end of the event, we even held a raffle where several students won Hokie t-shirts and hats.

Overall the event was a great success, as we had many students reinforce the need and applaud our determination for striving to improve democratic elections here in the U.S. and throughout the world!

Be sure to check out all of the best pictures we took at the event, in our Gobblerfest 2014 image gallery below:

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We registered a ton of users for our mobile app that should hit the major app markets this December! Those who registered were given a free Follow My Vote Ping Pong Ball and were offered a chance to win other Follow My Vote swag by playing the ping pong toss game at our Gobblerfest booth.

CONGRATS to all those that WON BIG and took home some cool Follow My Vote swag!!

We also held a raffle and gave out a bunch of prizes, including a Virginia Tech Cornhole game with custom made Virginia Tech Cornhole Bean Bags and even a much sought after leather futon.

Be sure to check out all of the best pictures we took at the event, in our Gobblerfest 2013 slideshow and image gallery below:

NOTE: If you’d like to check out all the photos we took at the event, be sure to find us on Facebook, like our Facebook page, and view our Gobblerfest 2013 photo album.

Last but not least, we’d like to thank all those who took part in the festivities, especially those who showed interest in Follow My Vote and came to visit our booth! We’d also like to extend a BIG THANKS to all the Gobblerfest volunteers and Gobblerfest sponsors who helped make Gobblerfest 2013 at Virginia Tech such a fantastic experience!

PHOTO CREDIT: Jeffrey Mitchell Bierie

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