What a week – and it’s only hump day! Already we’ve presented with three US Olympic Snowboarders (insane amounts of Olympic and X Games medals amongst them) in two high schools – in front of nearly 1,000 students. These athletes shared some powerful stories about their sport and how climate change is already taking it’s toll on their way of life.

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I’ll post more videos soon about their personal stories – Nate talking about how he hiked a glacier with his father as a kid and now there’s a parking lot where the glacier used to be because it receded about a half mile, Seth talked about the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver and how they had to build the course out of hay and helicopter in snow from other parts of Canada and Gretchen talked about how her annual snowboarding trip to New Zealand was called off this year because… well, there wasn’t and snow to ride.

They also shared some pretty sweet DOTs… I’ll keep you hanging for those videos (next week).

For now, let’s just showcase some of the fun: the athletes loved giving the presentations with Bridget, one of ACE’s rockstar Educators, and the students loved meeting the athletes – Nate and Seth brought their gold medals (2 Olympic gold for Seth Wescott and 5 X Games gold for Nate Holland)