FreeRice
The Moving Stair January 18th, 2009Freerice.com is a wonderful little site for pretty much anyone.
It’s a very simple concept - it includes a vocabulary game in which it gives you a word, and you must select another word whose definition is close to it. For each answer you get right, you earn enough money for the site to buy ten grains of rice, which it then donates to the UN’s efforts to end world hunger. As you answer more and more of their questions correctly the vocabulary gets extremely advanced; they have sixty levels of English vocabulary. They say it is very rare to get above level 50, and I myself haven’t passed level 35.
I’m going to be donating about 2000 grains a day to help study for the SAT, which is coming up this Saturday. I encourage everyone to try it, just for 100 grains or so a day, just for fun. According to the statistics on their site, FreeRice has - since its creation in 2007 - donated enough rice to feed 100,000 people for a month. That’s pretty cool. In actual distribution FreeRice has fed just over a million people for, in some cases, up to two months. It feels nice to be a part of that.
January 18th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Very cool Sam. I just donated 200 grains of rice (and learned a few new words in the process!) Made it to level 42….
January 18th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
This is a fun site.
And good job studying for the SAT…
January 18th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
42?!
I have a lot of work to do, then…
January 18th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
So there I was earning rice (finally made it to 43, by the way…) and this word appeared: machiavellian
Made me think of FOOD. But CRAFTY is the definition.
January 18th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Ok, I’ve just hit 1000 grains, made it to level 44…
January 20th, 2009 at 12:16 am
I’ve also discovered the joy of geography and basic math….
January 20th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Good for you all, cool websight… but I think I need to work on my vocabulary
January 22nd, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Fun and a great way to help others. I have a long way to go to get to level 44 :o) Thanks Sam, and also good luck with the test
January 25th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
How dso you feel the SAT test went? When will you hear?