Steve Spangler

Steve Spangler grew up in Denver, Colorado, where he got his start in show business as a magician at the age of five. Spangler's parents, Bruce and Kitty Spangler, operated a school for magicians in Denver and served as consultants to top name magicians over the past forty years. Steve attended the University of Colorado at Boulder to receive his degree in chemistry and went on to teach science in the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado from 1991-2003. Spangler started his career in television in 1991 as the science host of News for Kids, a nationally syndicated program produced by NBC Business Video. Steve joined KUSA-TV in Denver in 2000 as an on-air talent producing weekly education-based segments that featured engaging science experiments that viewers could try at home. Spangler has over 1,100 segments to his credit and two Heartland Emmy awards. In addition to his work on television, Spangler is the founder of SteveSpanglerScience.com, a Denver-based company that produces science toys and educational kits for specialty store retailers and mass market stores like Target, Walmart and Toys R' Us. Spangler is probably best known for his Mentos and Diet Coke geyser experiment that went viral in 2005 and taught millions of people how to turn an ordinary bottle of Diet Coke and a roll of Mentos into an erupting soda geyser. His original Mentos and Diet Coke video posted on Youtube in September 2005 went viral and spawned thousands of other exploding soda geyser videos. Spangler's engaging approach to communicating science on television and through online video caught the attention of Google and Youtube in 2011. Spangler and his team were one of one hundred funded content contributors for the Youtube Original Content project. The Spangler Effect debuted in February 2012 and was featured on Youtube for two seasons - 63 episodes were produced. Spangler's most visible online project to date is called Sick Science - science experiments presented in a short video format that challenges the viewer to figure out the science behind the wow moment. With over 100 million views and counting, the Sick Science brand and style of engagement has come to define Steve Spangler's ability to connect with a wide range of audience demographics. The National Speakers Association inducted Spangler in to the Speaker Hall of Fame in 2010. Spangler also holds a Guinness World Record for conducting the world's largest science experiment in 2009.