Help TEAM COOL KIDS get to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics!

Okay, So Lindsay Harbert, my Real Cool Club cohost, and I have been up to something secret. We’ve been putting together a video submission for Samsung’s Mobile Explorers contest.  They are sending 5 groups of 2 individuals to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics in February.  The duo has to be creative, fun, and be able to social network like the dickens.  Guess what? We fit the bill to a friggin’ T!  We already have a huuuge online presence (millions of YouTube hits, thousands of twitter followers, Facebook friends & fans, MySpace pals, etc), we know our way around technical equipment (hell, just watch the durn video!) and we’re pretty cute too.

Our video finally got posted on the Samsung website and we would LOVE to get you to 1) view it and 2) give it the ol’ 5 star rating! I don’t think the rating has any influence on who they decide to send, but regardless, it can’t hurt (and we’re really proud of the video!).  Lindsay and I (aka @TEAM COOL KIDS) are STOKED to be entered into the contest and we SERIOUSLY want to go to the olympics. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to afford to get up there for months, but this might just be our lucky break.

The video explains why we would make good mobile explorers, but what about why do we want to compete?  Well, it’s a once in a lifetime experience to go to the olympics. It’s rarely this close to home and would be the kind of experience that we can tell our grandchildren about down the road.  Meeting, interviewing, and telling stories about all the different athletes and how they got to where they are would be the most rewarding aspect of this trip for sure.  And it’s gonna be damn fun!

So 5 teams of 2 will be chosen to fly, all expenses paid, to Vancouver. They put us up in a “Samsung Suite” with tons of cool gear (cameras, laptops, cell phones, and more) which would be sick to play with and take to their limits.  The whole trip is a 20 day excursion to document the games.  This would leave both Lindsay and I totally broke as we wouldn’t be making money down here at all, so Samsung has sweetened the deal.  Out of the 5 times, I believe 1 team will be chosen as the grand prize winner of $24,000.  That’s $12,000 each, people! A nice little incentive to kick ass while we’d be up there.  Stay tuned, I’ll keep you up-to-date on what goes down with the contest. Lovesies you!