***Official 2013 Siemens Competition Thread***

<p>^I’m pretty excited for that too, haha</p>

<p>I got my Siemens “goodie bag” today. It had</p>

<ul>
<li>a nice backpack with the Siemens Foundation logo </li>
<li>a MyCharge Peak 6000 w/ Siemens Foundation logo</li>
<li>Siemens Competition T-shirt with all semi-finalist and regional finalist names</li>
<li>Siemens Keychain</li>
<li>Copy of 10/24/13 USA Today with finalist names</li>
<li>A lapel pin</li>
<li>A certificate in a pretty nice frame</li>
</ul>

<p>All in all, I am quite happy with the goodie bag, but I wish the big gift had been something other than a battery power bank. Will probably try to return it at Best Buy and try to get store credit for it ;). </p>

<p>I wonder how I got my stuff so early, since on the letters, and on previous threads, people have said that the goodie bags come around December, right before Christmas.</p>

<p>yeah, that’s strange… hmm maybe last year they waited for the kindle with ads to become really cheap</p>

<p>Lol, I kind of wanted a kindle. I guess the charger thing is nice, could possibly use while in college.</p>

<p>Really honored to be a semifinalist, though.</p>

<p>got everything today too! :slight_smile: I’m just really happy to be a semifinalist so not stressing about what I actually received…</p>

<p>DS got his box yesterday, the backup charger is for iPhone 4s.</p>

<p>My school got the banner a couple days before I got the package.</p>

<p>Hey guys, how good is regional finalist?</p>