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Bill Nye

BILL NYE, scientist/inventor/comedian/author, is a man with a mission. He's out to turn kids of all ages on to the "way cool" wonders of science! With his Emmy Award-winning weekly television series, Bill Nye the Science Guy, he's letting kids know that science is not only cool, it's powerful. After all, "Science rules!" Making science entertaining and accessible is something that Bill has been doing for most of his life. Humor runs rampant in his family " ... we just get together and laugh" - and his parents made sure he knew the value of education. Bill discovered he had a talent for tutoring in high school, and while growing up in Washington, D.C., he spent his summers de-mystifying math and science for fellow students. When he wasn't hitting the books, he was hitting the road on his bicycle, which he spent hours taking apart and rebuilding, to "see how it worked." Bill's fascination with how things work led him to Cornell University and a degree in mechanical engineering. After graduation, he headed for Seattle to work as an engineer at Boeing. It was in Seattle that Bill began to combine his love of science with his flair for comedy, when he won a Steve Martin look-alike contest and developed dual careers as an engineer by day and a stand-up comic by night. In the... Next

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