Today is day seven of HP and Microsoft’s ‘Back to School and Better Together’ Giveaway, which means that Poorer Than You will begin theirs. Up for grabs is a computer combo containing an HP dv6, an HP Mini 110 and Syncables software – which allows you to keep the larger laptop at home but carry the smaller netbook (synced and carrying all of your data!) when on the go. The Winner will also get a customized Poorer Than You Timbuk2 bag to carry their loot! 
From the Poorer Than You post:
Create a piece of multimedia that embodies a sound personal finance concept. “Multimedia” can be a photo, a drawing, a video, a collage made with software, or even a song if you so choose. I will pick my favorite submissions and feature them here on the blog on Saturday. I will assign each of the best submissions a number and use Randomizer.org to pick the winner!
I am not looking for the most artistic person in the world. I wasn’t a photo major or an art major… I was a film major, but that’s beside the point. I don’t expect you to be any of those things. It should look (or sound) like you put some work into it, but aesthetics will not be the #1 thing I use to pick out my favorites. Pretty is nice, but it’s not the point here.
Things I will be looking for in choosing my favorites:
- Money topics! It’s open to anything (poke around this blog for ideas), but try to keep it relevant to college students or 20-somethings. It can be something simple, like a cool photo of money. Or it can be something big that demonstrates a complex money topic in an easy-to-understand way.
- NO COPYRIGHTED OR TRADEMARKED MATERIAL. Even if it’s unintentional, you cannot use anything that you don’t have the rights to (including pictures used in a collage, or music). Anything that violates copyright law will be automatically disqualified.
Read more about how to enter at Poorer Than You.
You have 25 separate chances to win a similar prize package; this is the complete schedule of all upcoming contests:
| Student Bloggers | Starts: 12th August | Finishes: 16th August |
| Geek Zone | Starts: 13th August | Finishes: 17th August |
| Kill Jill Goes to College | Starts: 14th August | Finishes: 18th August |
| Study Successful | Starts: 15th August | Finishes: 19th August |
| Gear Live | Starts: 16th August | Finishes: 20th August |
| CampusGrotto | Starts: 17th August | Finishes: 21st August |
| Poorer Than You | Starts: 18th August | Finishes: 22nd August |
| Notebooks | Starts: 19th August | Finishes: 23rd August |
| ThePrereq. | Starts: 20th August | Finishes: 24th August |
| Hack College | Starts: 21st August | Finishes: 25th August |
| College Times | Starts: 22nd August | Finishes: 26th August |
| OSNN | Starts: 23rd August | Finishes: 27th August |
| Green Panda Treehouse | Starts: 24th August | Finishes: 28th August |
| Building Camelot | Starts: 25th August | Finishes: 29th August |
| Mocha Dad | Starts: 26th August | Finishes: 30th August |
| College Candy | Starts: 27th August | Finishes: 31st August |
| Studenomics | Starts: 28th August | Finishes: 1st September |
| The 2.0 Life | Starts: 29th August | Finishes: 2nd September |
| Geeks room | Starts: 30th August | Finishes: 3rd September |
| Debt Free Scholar | Starts: 31st August | Finishes: 4th September |
| One Day One Job | Starts: 1st September | Finishes: 5th September |
| Daddy Forever | Starts: 2nd September | Finishes: 6th September |
| Clinton Fitch | Starts: 3rd September | Finishes: 7th September |
| Zen College Life | Starts: 4th September | Finishes: 8th September |
| Gear Diary | Starts: 5th September | Finishes: 9th September |
Good luck! And as always, if you win on any of the sites because you learned about the contest here on Gear Diary, we’d love to hear about it! 
