Steve Spangler | |
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![]() Spangler in 2019 | |
Born | Denver, Colorado, U.S. | December 8, 1966
Occupation(s) | Television personality Author Science teacher |
Known for | Television host DIY Sci YouTube personality |
Website | https://stevespangler.com/ |
Steve Spangler (born December 8, 1966) is an American television personality, author and STEM teacher. [1] Steve served as the CEO of Steve Spangler Science until 2018 when the company was sold to Really Good Stuff, LLC, a division of Excelligence Learning Corporation. [2] [3] Spangler posted the first Diet Coke and Mentos video on YouTube in September 2005 and his 2002 televised demonstration of the eruption went viral, launching a chain of several other Diet Coke and Mentos experiment viral videos. [4] [5] He earned two Heartland Emmy Awards and a total of five Emmy nominations. Spangler is an inductee of the National Speakers Association Speaker Hall of Fame. [6] [7] [8]
Spangler's career began as a science teacher in the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado. [9]
In 1992, Spangler began working as an adjunct faculty member at the Regis University in the Department of Chemistry. [10] He served as the Executive Director of the National Hands-on Science Institute until 2001. [10]
During his first year of teaching, a producer from the Denver, Colorado NBC affiliate KCNC-TV offered Spangler a position as a science host on News for Kids [9] after seeing him perform a science demonstration show at a public event. [9] News for Kids premiered in 1991 and was picked up for national syndication in 1993, airing in 185 cities every Saturday morning. [9] After six seasons, Spangler produced 220 segments that featured simple science experiments that viewers could easily recreate at home.
In 2001, Spangler joined the Denver NBC affiliate, KUSA-TV 9NEWS as their Science Education Contributor. [5] [11]
The Diet Coke and Mentos eruption experiment was first televised by Spangler in 2002 and became popular on the Internet in 2005. [5] More than a thousand videos appeared online replicating the experiment. [5] Spangler was nominated for the Time 100 in 2007 because of the experiment. [4] He signed a licensing agreement with Perfetti Van Melle, the maker of MENTOS, in 2006 and developed a line of toys to be used with the experiment. [1] [11] [12]
Spangler is the author of seven books: Down to a Science, Taming the Tornado Tube, Bounce No Bounce, Fizz Factor, Secret Science, Naked Eggs and Flying Potatoes, Fire Bubbles and Exploding Toothpaste. [13]
Spangler also runs the Sick Science! YouTube channel [14] and a TikTok account. [15]
Spangler received a Heartland Emmy Award in 1997 for his contribution the television program News for Kids. In 2010, he received a Heartland Emmy Award for Spangler Science - Weather and Science Day at Coors Field. [6] [8] Spangler also received a Guinness World Record for the largest physics lesson. [16]
Spangler was inducted into the National Speakers Association's Speaker Hall of Fame in 2010. [17]
In October 2011, Spangler was selected as one of 100 initial partners [18] for the YouTube Original Channel Initiative and received funding for the production of new original programming. [19] Spangler's YouTube show, The Spangler Effect, debuted February 1, 2012. [20] [21]
Steve Spangler was born on December 8, 1966, in Denver, Colorado. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a dual degree in chemistry and humanities in 1989. [13] [22] Spangler has three sons. [23]
Mentos are a brand of packaged scotch mints or mint-flavored candies sold in many stores and vending machines. First produced in 1932, they are currently sold in more than 130 countries worldwide by the Italian-Dutch corporation Perfetti Van Melle. The mints are small oblate spheroids, with a slightly hard exterior and a soft, chewy interior.
A soda geyser is a physical reaction between a carbonated beverage, usually Diet Coke, and Mentos mints that causes the beverage to be expelled from its container. The candies catalyze the release of gas from the beverage, which creates an eruption that pushes most of the liquid up and out of the bottle. Lee Marek and "Marek's Kid Scientists" were the first to publicly demonstrate the experiment on the Late Show with David Letterman in 1999. Steve Spangler's televised demonstration of the eruption in 2005 became popular on YouTube, launching a chain of several other Diet Coke and Mentos experiment viral videos. Experiments carried out at altitudes ranging from below sea level in Death Valley to the summit of Pikes Peak have demonstrated that the reaction works better at higher elevations.
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