10 Balloonies – Geocaching for Charity

10 Balloonies – Groundspeak’s DARPA War Room

Groundspeak found balloon #4

To mark the 40th Anniversary of the Internet, DARPA is hosting the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems. The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States.

Groundspeak is the owner of Geocaching.com and if they win this competition, Groundspeak has pledged to donate $10k on top of the $40k prize money to charity.

As of this writing, they are half way there. They’ve located 5 of the 10 balloons.

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