Steve Spangler
Teaching People to be Amazing!
He’s been described as the guy who shoots potatoes, makes toilet
paper fly and mixes up a perfect batch of slime. But he may be best
known for teaching millions of people how to turn an ordinary
bottle of soda into an erupting geyser of fun. His now famous
Mentos Geyser Experiment became an Internet sensation in September
of 2005 and spawned more than a thousand related exploding soda
experiments on video sites like YouTube.com
On the education side, Steve Spangler is nationally known as a
teacher's teacher who shares his passion for learning in the
classroom, on the platform and through the airwaves. Over the last
15 years, Steve has made over 500 television appearances as an
authority on hands-on science and inquiry-based learning. His cool
science demonstrations and creative insights earned him a regional
Emmy as the host of NBC television’s News for Kids.
Spangler joined the Denver NBC affiliate, KUSA-TV 9News, in 2001
as their Science Education Specialist. His weekly experiments and
science segments are designed to teach viewers creative ways to
make learning fun and never fail to surprise his co-hosts who seem
to enjoy an occasional blast from a fire extinguisher or are eager
to help trigger a few exploding pumpkins... all in the name of
science.
Since 1991, Spangler has served as the Executive Director of the
National Hands-on Science Institute, which includes hands-on
training workshops for teachers and administrators. The Institute’s
successful model of combining hands-on training for teachers with
on-site practice and evaluation with children has attracted the
attention of educators throughout the country.
With twelve years experience in the classroom with the Cherry Creek
School District in Colorado, Steve continues to share his creative
learning strategies and inquiry research as a consultant for the
Littleton Public Schools in Colorado. The focus of his work centers
around hands-on learning and student motivation.
As a business leader, Steve Spangler combined his experiences as
a teacher and his work in the educational toy industry to start his
own business dedicated to creating products that make learning
science fun. As the original founder and CEO of Be Amazing! Toys,
Steve and his creative team of designers have developed more than
140 educational toys and science related products for companies
like Scholastic, Target, the Discovery Channel Store and Toys
R' Us.
Steve Spangler Science serves as both a catalog and online business
dedicated to offering its customers educational toys and one of a
kind learning resources. The company's unique business
strategies and attention-getting creations have been featured
recently in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine and TIME
Magazine, where online readers voted Steve Spangler #18 in the Top
100 Most Influential People of the Year for 2006.
His recent appearances on the Ellen DeGeneres Show have taught
viewers how to blow up their food, shock their friends, create
mountains of foam and turn 2,500 boxes of cornstarch and a garden
hose into a swimming pool of fun.
For more information about Steve Spangler, visit his blog at www.SteveSpangler.com and his online business at www.SteveSpanglerScience.com or contact his office at (303) 798-2778.
