Mr. Wizard sparked my science career

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Mr. Wizard sparked my science career.

I used to just LOVE watching Mr. Wizard on television when I was a little boy. He performed some of the neatest stuff I ever saw and I could tell that he really liked kids and sincerely wanted us to learn about the things he knew. He inspired me to become a mechanical engineer, solar engineer, and engineering educator myself. You can watch so many of his instructional videos even today on YouTube. Click HERE or HERE to go to his YouTube channels. There arre more than 400 different science experiments and learning videos available for FREE. Maybe you will become as inspired as I was to learn more about science.

Donald Jeffry Herbert (July 10, 1917 – June 12, 2007), better known as Mr. Wizard, was the creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard (1951–65, 1971–72) and Mr. Wizard’s World (1983–90), which were educational television programs for children devoted to science and technology. He also produced many short video programs about science and authored several popular books about science for children. It was said that no fictional hero was able to rival the popularity and longevity of “the friendly, neighborly scientist”.  In Herbert’s obituary, Bill Nye wrote, “Herbert’s techniques and performances helped create the United States’ first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world.” Herbert is credited with turning “a generation of youth” in the 1950s and early 1960s onto “the promise and perils of science”.

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Mechanical/Solar Engineer, Prof. Oku Singer

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