We are giving away $350 for this Lab Week contest! We can send the cash prize anywhere in the world—so any lab in the world can participate!
Special thanks to TECHLAB for sponsoring this Lab Week contest!
Here’s how to participate:
1. Take a picture of your Mystery Machine of Diagnostics (a.k.a. analyzer)
2. Post your Picture, Name of your Analyzer and Why on our website as a comment under this contest section (not on Facebook or anywhere else). This will be your official entry.
3. When posting the picture, please include the name of your Lab and which State or Country you’re from.
4. Multiple entries (different analyzers) are welcome.
5. On April 30th at 2100 MST, the top three entries with MOST LIKES (thumbs up) will be our contest finalists.
6. TECHLAB will pick the winning entry among the three finalists.
Contest Prizes:
- The finalist with the winning entry picked by TECHLAB will receive a cash prize of $250.
- The other two finalists will receive a consolation prize of $50 each.
Note: We would like to keep all contest entries clean and creative for everyone. Good luck and let’s have some fun!
This is Gary because he looks like a snail.
Blanding, Utah
Our 5600 is named Bubbles. He has a thing for bubbles and freaks out when he finds them.
Blanding, Utah.
Biofire sounds like a crying goat. It’s also the GREATEST OF ALL TIME. 🐐 🤣 Entry from Colorado.
And finally, our less beloved Xerox Marley. He can’t handle more than 1-3 pages at a time
He be jammin’ and not in a good way!
Oelwein, Iowa
Hahaha
Our two XN machines, the BEST of buddies Bert and Ernie! Ernie is definitely well behaved, but Bert not so much. We had to bring in Art the Clown for security.
This is our Alinity and we call him Mayhem. Unfortunately you can probably guess why!
Happy Lab Week from Parrish Medical Center in FL!
Our new Sysmex U2000, The Sharon.
The story…Sharon is one of our more seasoned techs, 46 years to be exact, and she was hesitant to make the switch to the Sysmex U2000. After a few weeks, Sharon stated “I dont hate it.” That is a glowing review. In the same conversation it was also said, “It would be rude to not like something named after you.” We love them both!❤️
-Auburn NY
Meet Magic Mic. The Vitek is where all the magic happens!
—Waverly, IA
Wow Waverly IA! Getting close to home! I’m from Sumner 😄
We named our ExL F-Red for the frustration and makes us F-Red mad somedays!
Osborne County Memorial Hospital Laboratory, Osborne KS
Nacogdoches Medical Center, TX
our visions is named “Beth” because it has the temperament of Beth happy on day an being a pain on other days.
Meet Fred, very reliable and always has our back 😉
This is Tweety bird! Always making a fuss and never stops tweeting like a bird.
Here’s Myrtle. She’s a little spicy! Her history includes providing unwanted showers during maintenance.
We have a wizard of oz theme in our lab! Our track system is the yellow brick road transporting all of our specimens, our abbott alinitys are dorothy and toto, the storage module being the emerald city where all of the samples are chilling, and oz the osmometer sitting back and watching us all run around running samples all day long. These were named by our chemistry supervisor that has been here 40+ years. CMC in Texas
We got our groovy-colored new chemistry analyzers just in time for lab week! Meet Daphne and Velma, surprisingly named before the lab week theme was 😂 Turned out perfect 👌🏻
-Roane General Lab,WV
Meet Richard! I’ll give you three guesses as to how he got his name. 🤣
Mandie
Oelwein, Iowa
Uh oh you forgot to upload Richard’s pic 🤪
I’ve been having a heck of a time trying to post with pictures. Round two-FIGHT!!
Meet Peewee and Pee Queen!
-from MCCH, Nebraska
❤️❤️❤️
Our Mystery machine is NEMO!!! The Grifols “Fish tank”. We called it this because of the beautiful blue calming light that makes you think of a fish tank!!! We got a 2nd one and her name is Dory… Just keep swimming …through blood bank!!!!
HealthPark Medical Center
Valerie
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Thanks for voting!! GO TEAM Lee Health!
Meet Clyde!
Labcorp Alabama
This is Big Bertha and he little brother Earl
Labcorp Alabama