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I mean efreet with CNET news I'm here in Whistler Canada with Steve messler who's one of the pushers on USA one the bobsled known as the night train obviously you're here to win a medal and you know compete in bobsled but one of the other things that you're doing is connecting with schools back home can you tell me a little bit about that yeah it's been amazing schools back schools back home schools from all over the country kids from the age of first grade five six years old up to not kids up to undergraduate and graduate-level of courses at the University of Florida my alma mater and it's been great we've been able to bring them together and have them enjoy the Olympic experience not just for the two and a half weeks that is the Olympics but they actually have them enjoy the build-up and then you know hopefully afterwards enjoy the you know the bring down after the other bigs and show them that it's not just in two weeks and show them that it's there's more to it than that and also at the same time bring them to places that they can't can't go we're doing closed closed circuit things on skype where we're for 20 or 30 minute period of doing q and A's with with these classrooms from the Olympic Village sitting there something guy when I was a kid there was no way that was possible so for me to be able to bring that to these kids and have that you know come full circle to go from going to classrooms before speaking to speaking to kids and then not being able to have the technology to run in myself and have them you know have the platform right off my right off my MacBook and to be able to to give that experience to kids which is something I would have loved to have is amazing it's so much fun you mentioned your MacBook the pilot of the night train is Steve welcome is a big PC guy windows engineer you're kind of a Mac guy any PC Mac contractor all the time all the time whenever anything if there's a tiny little thing that will glitch on my macbook he he's all over it because that's the you know that's max kind of cleaning the fame is they have some of the issues that a PC has so anytime anything if anything ever goes wrong with my Mac II no matter how small hulkees all over it because he just loves that little rival then you're also kind of a gadget guy you travel a lot on the road what kinds of stuff do you carry with you I've got everything from my blackberry storm I'm Verizon so unfortunately there is no iPhone to my Bose headphones to my MacBook Pro a PSP all the things Oh things that you know essential for being on the road for five months at a time I haven't been home it's it's February 15th and I haven't been home since October 10th so you need everything to keep entertained obviously you are here to do some sledding how's it been so far and how's this track here it's we haven't got on the ice point yet we start in a couple days we're excited it's been good you know Louise had a terrible tragedy a couple days ago we're we're still kind of reeling over that but at the same time we're hoping that that's not gonna affect us and we know it's not gonna affect us it's it's just it's good to remember but at the same time you have to to be ready understand we still have a job to do thank Steve thank you