Recently Dropbox has added a new bonus for Students: Double your space by verifying your `.edu` e-mail address
The promotion is called:
###Join the Great Space Race
And Dropbox boasts: Earn free space for your school for two years
Dropbox will give you 3GB for free for verifying your school e-mail address, and then as your school collects points for people verifying their `.edu` email addresses, it’s possible to get up to an extra 25GB of space form the educational “space race”
From Dropbox:
> Earn free Dropbox space for everyone at your school! Join Space Race to get an extra 3 GB for two years, plus the space your school earns!
They have a few terms that go along with it, stating:
> Term. Individuals may participate in the Dropbox Space Race Program (“Program”) from October 15, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (“PT”) to December 10, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. PT (the “Sign-Up Period”). Participants are required to determine the appropriate beginning and ending times in the Sign-Up Period for their respective jurisdictions. The Sponsor’s computer is the official time keeping device for the Program.
Here is a graph showing the progress chart for Universities:
