Among the five Samsung Mobile Explorer teams representing the U.S. at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Los Angeles-based Team Cool Kids (Ethan Newberry and Lindsay Harbert) were named Samsung’s Ultimate USA Mobile Explorers based on their month-long creative blogging, video production and social media networking of their Olympic experiences. To earn their title, Team Cool Kids competed in seven challenges such as visiting Vancouver sites, tracing the history of ice dancing and scripting a sustainability PSA. In order to win these challenges, the five Samsung Mobile Explorer teams competed for online fan votes and the favor of a panel of Samsung judges. Along with the title of Ultimate Samsung Mobile Explorer, Team Cool Kids earns a guest blogging gig with Samsung.com and a $24,000 Samsung cash prize package.
Other finalist Mobile Explorer teams for the U.S., included:
· Team David and Freddie!, two college buddies who first connected in film school in Los Angeles. . Making movies, gaming and one-upping each other in social network followers keeps their friendship strong.
· Team Kinetic: Karl and Jeremiah, a pair of creative professionals from Sacramento, Calif. They are experiential by nature, hardwired for fun, omnivorous with media and ambidextrous with their noggins.
· Team NYC: DeStorm and Jessica, a New York City couple built to compete and to travel. Both were college athletes and performers, and one of them calls YouTube for a paycheck, thanks to the three million video views.
· Team S.K.A.R. Vlog: Amy and Samia, friends from Los Angeles who seek to be the source of entertainment, whether it is impersonating a celebrity, singing really bad karaoke songs or just goofing around. The team is part journalism, part improv comedy.
Samsung USA Mobile Explorers were joined in Vancouver by more than 40 other Mobile Explorers from Canada, Russia, China and South Korea. The Mobile Explorers quality videos can be seen at: www.facebook.com/samsungusa.
For a look at a winning challenge video from Team Cool Kids check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tisVCGbTA4
