{"id":16432,"date":"2016-04-14T12:23:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=16432"},"modified":"2016-12-20T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T16:50:53","slug":"3-nsc-students-travel-world-redbull-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/3-nsc-students-travel-world-redbull-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"3 NSC Students Travel Europe on RedBull Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Story by <span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\">Evan Abramson, Central Florida Future <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16433 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/12710987_10207489381205555_9186726152972707660_o-e1460651105359.jpg\" alt=\"12710987_10207489381205555_9186726152972707660_o\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/12710987_10207489381205555_9186726152972707660_o-e1460651105359.jpg 280w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/12710987_10207489381205555_9186726152972707660_o-e1460651105359-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/12710987_10207489381205555_9186726152972707660_o-e1460651105359-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Red Bull might not actually give you wings, but it has given three UCF Nicholson School of Communication (NSC) students the opportunity to travel the world, all expenses paid.<\/p>\n<p>On April 12, 16 three-man teams from the United States joined another 149 groups in a seven-day race across Europe. Three of the 495 college students just happen to be from UCF. Seniors Steven Yalowitz, Miladin &#8220;Misha&#8221; Balos and Gilbert &#8220;Zack&#8221; Pierola decided to form Team Red, White and Bull for their chance to win Red Bull&#8217;s Contiki Travel Ambassadors title. All three are students are in the Nicholson School of Communication; Pierola studying human communication, Balos studying radio-television and Yalowitz studying advertising-public relations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna try and rush through Europe,\u201d Yalowitz said. \u201cI\u2019ve never been to Europe before, so I think this is a great opportunity with no currency and two of your best friends. This is an adventure of a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They plan to use wit, charm, a paper map and a 24-pack of Red Bull to survive a race that will begin in an undisclosed location in Western Europe and end somewhere in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting that phone call that we made it, I was still in shock,\u201d Balos said. \u201cIt\u2019s been an adventure already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yalowitz, originally from Long Island, New York, is an \u201cambassador for positivity\u201d and always makes sure he and his team are in the best possible position to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe we can do this,\u201d Yalowitz said. \u201cWe got so much support. Within a week and a half, we got almost 4,000 votes. It\u2019s an incredible feeling to know this many people support you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Balos, Ohio-native but raised in Florida, has been friends with Pierola since the two were boys.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZack and I have been friends since fifth grade,\u201d Balos said. \u201cWe grew up together and graduated from the same high school and we are part of the same professional fraternity. That\u2019s where we met Steven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gilbert has \u201can irresistible itch for adventure.&#8221; He said spontaneity and radiating good vibes while increasing his knowledge and understanding of what this world has to offer is what keeps him going every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still surreal,\u201d Pierola said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it will hit us until we are flying to our destination we find out. I\u2019ve always wanted to do a Euro-trip, and this is going to be something special. To travel without money, cell phones and only cans of Red Bull to barter with, it will be a lifetime memory. I don\u2019t think this was just a PR stunt. They wanted to make people\u2019s lives change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Red Bull\u2019s \u201cCan You Make It\u201d campaign, the three had to battle it out in two separate rounds to be chosen to travel to Europe. The first objective was creating a video that described who each member was. For three NSC students, it was the kind of project they&#8217;d had been doing since they arrived to UCF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe culture is something I am really interested in learning about,\u201d Pierola said. \u201cBeing an American and growing up in Florida, it is difficult to learn about culture other than just reading about it. It helps you understand the world better when you travel and people can tell when other people travel. You can feel it when you talk to them. I think seeing all these countries will be a milestone in my life and I think it will help me grow mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, they had to do whatever they could to get enough votes from students and people around the Orlando area. The top 16 teams from each region of the country with the highest amount of votes would then move on and, from there, a panel of Red Bull judges would determine the fates of each team for who would get to travel to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at my internship and I all of a sudden saw we had dropped to 19th place from seventh,\u201d Yalowitz said. \u201cMy teammates were in Tampa at the time because one of Zack\u2019s family members passed away and they were at a funeral, so I personally went up to every single person in the library after leaving my internship and tried to get them to vote for us. We got back up to eighth place. On the second to last day, we were at eighth place. The next day, voting ended at 11 a.m. and I woke up at 9 a.m. and we were at 19th place again. I called my internship and said I was gonna be a little late and I went to the Student Union and gave my sales pitch and got us back to eighth place again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three left for Europe on April 12 and are currently putting their skills to the test. You can watch the team and others travel across the continent with footage of the events on <a href=\"http:\/\/beta.redbull.tv\/live\/AP-1MVEXFE911W11\/segment\/AP-1M1U7Z5JW2111\/red-bull-can-you-make-it\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralfloridafuture.com\/story\/entertainment\/2016\/04\/09\/3-ucf-students-travel-world-redbull-challenge\/82680106\/\" target=\"_blank\">View original story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Evan Abramson, Central Florida Future Red Bull might not actually give you wings, but it has given three UCF Nicholson School of Communication (NSC) students the opportunity to travel the world, all expenses paid. 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