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November 14, 2011

Staff Spotlight on Our Beloved Mae (and Steve’s Mother-in-Law)

Q: Tell us a little about who you are…
A:
 I am a wife of 46 years, mother of three, and grandmother of eight.  And . . . I happen to be Steve’s mother-in-law so there are lots of stories I can tell you about him!!  I can still very vividly remember Steve and our daughter, Renée, sitting at our kitchen table discussing whether or not they should take the risk and start this business.
Q: What do you do at Steve Spangler Science?
A:
 I have worked with the company since its beginning and have worn many different hats.  I have been on many product assembly lines, rolled thousands of Wind Bags and Solar Bags, unloaded millions of pipettes into our shed, and sewn hundreds of strips of cloth for one of Steve’s tricks, just to mention a few.  In 1997, I became the Shipping Manager (out of our basement!), all while working nights as an RN two or three times a week at a nearby hospital.  In April of 2001, I departed from my job at the hospital to become the full-time

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May 8, 2009

Steve Spangler Science Sets New Guinness World Record at 9News Colorado Rockies Science Day

World's Largest Physics Lesson

World’s Largest Physics Lesson

We’re honored to get to say, “We did it!” With a final count of 5,401 people, all armed with Windbags, the seats at Coors Field were flooded with science as we set out to set a new world record for the the Largest Physics Lesson.  What a sight… a sea of Windbags with a special fly-over by Sky9, that captured the moment on film from the helicopter.  The requirement for Guinness World Records was that the lesson last at least 30 minutes, but, we decided to take it to the next level and go for a full 51 minutes.  There were Mentos Geysers, Rockies players with Potato Guns, a lesson on Bernoulli’s Principle, and, of course, a giant kaboom for the finale. And, at the end of the lesson an official Guinness World Records adjudicator was on hand to present our team with a certificate for the new world record. Learn more about all of the science experiments featured on Science Day at Coors Field.

Wondering about the official word from Guinness?  Check this out for more info…

Press Release

DENVER, COLORADO – Steve Spangler

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