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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Weston, Tom (DTMB) [mailto:westont1@michigan.gov] <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 02, 2014 11:56 AM<br><b>To:</b> leonerac@egr.msu.edu<br><b>Cc:</b> Wilfong, James (DTMB)<br><b>Subject:</b> Code Michigan 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rachel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I received your contact information from Anil Jain and wanted to introduce myself, I am Tom Weston I work for the State of Michigan as the Director of Mi.gov. <span style='color:black;background:white'>The State of Michigan, local units of government and the private sector have teamed up to launch the second annual Code Michigan event, to be held October 3-5 in Detroit, Marquette and Newaygo.</span> Code Michigan is essentially a “Hackfest” designed to connect civic minded developers and designers with open data to create amazing apps for Michigan. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Detroit<span style='color:black;background:white'>, Marquette and Newaygo will each award first, second and third place cash prizes. First place is $5,000; second is $1,500; and third place is $500. The first place winners from each location will then go on to compete for the cash grand prize of $10,000 and a 30 minute meeting to pitch their winning idea to Renaissance Venture Capital Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black;background:white'>I am very interested in having MSU students participate in this year’s event, the following link can give you more detail about the event and how to register. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black;background:white'><a href="http://mi.gov/codemichigan/">http://mi.gov/codemichigan/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='color:black;background:white'>Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need more information.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tom Weston</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Director Michigan.gov</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.michigan.gov">www.michigan.gov</a><br>517.241.7922 Work</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>517.241.5855 Fax</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>