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Soccket Partners with State Farm for “Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow” and Giveaway

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How are you reading this post right now? From a desktop computer, laptop, iPad, or an enhanced cell phone? What do all those tech gadgets have in common? They all need electricity to function.  From the largest appliance to the smallest hand held electronic, everything is powered by electricity.  Electricity is readily available and is used as part of daily American living.  However, “31 million people in Latin America and more than a quarter of Latin American rural communities have no electricity” (World Energy Outlook 2010 from International Energy Agency).  Now thanks to sOccket, anyone can help to generate electricity for those countries that need it the most.
sOccket (a newly developed product from Uncharted Play, Inc) is a soccer ball that harnesses and stores green energy during play for later use as a power source, has partnered with State Farm to launch its Juega Hoy. Ilumina el Mañana (Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow) program in association with the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, the regional soccer championship of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.  sOcckets are portable generators that combine the fun of soccer with innovative engineering, providing clean power and a purposeful symbol of empowerment for those with limited access to energy around the world.
The State Farm Juega Hoy. Ilumina el Mañana (Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow) program allows participants the opportunity to generate energy, while playing with the prototype balls, for their participating Latin American Gold Cup country of choice. Participants will be able to play with the prototypes in person at select Gold Cup events and virtually on State Farm Latino, State Farm’s Hispanic Facebook page, and via an iPhone mobile application. Their physical and virtual activity will be tracked, and the more play that occurs, the more sOccket balls will be shipped to Latin American countries in need. Every 15 minutes of play equals one more ball that will be donated. Participating consumers will have the opportunity to vote on where they would like to send a sOccket ball. The top three Latin American countries receiving votes will receive sOcckets.
To help build awareness about Juega Hoy. Ilumina el Mañana (Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow) and sOccket, State Farm is offering as a giveaway $100 gift card to http://www.greenandmore.com/ (eco-friendly retailer) and a $100 gift card to http://www.big5sportinggoods.com/ (sporting goods retailer).
To enter the State Farm and sOccket “Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow” Giveaway
  • Like the State Farm “Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow” Facebook page: http://on.fb.me/sfgoldcup and comment below this post about anything on the State Farm “Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow” Facebook page. (The FB page is available in Spanish and English; click on top tab to change to English).

For example comments can be about which country you choose to donate electricity to, any of the “light” games, or anything else you noted on http://on.fb.me/sfgoldcup.

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For more information about sOccket visit their website at http://www.soccket.com and visit the State Farm “Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow” Facebook page at http://on.fb.me/sfgoldcup.

BONUS – My Chicas Chatting co-host Jennifer at http://www.mami2mommy.com/ is hosting a #IlluminateNow Twitter Party Friday (6/24) 9-10pm EST. RSVP here: http://bit.ly/jzzg15.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post on behalf of State Farm’s partnership with sOccket “Play Today. Illuminate Tomorrow.” however, the thoughts and opinions I express are clearly my own.


 

Comments

  16. Wow! What a unique idea! This will be so helpful for many countries that need electricity. I choose Mexico.

  41. Congratulations to Susan Heim and Rue LaSalle on winning the gift certificates! Please DM or email me your contact info.