POMFRET — Destin Sandlin, the Alabama-based rocket engineer whose popular YouTube channel “Smarter Every Day” videos have become an educational staple in high school and college classrooms, will be at Pomfret School Jan. 26 – 28 as this year’s Schwartz Visiting Fellow.

 Sandlin is a test engineer for both NASA and the military, and holds a patent in rocket design. In his SED videos where his trademark passion for and commitment to science and global outreach light up the YouTube screen, he explores topics ranging from the physics of how helicopters fly to “how Houdini really died” to how and why cats always land on their feet. Many of his projects involve using science to change peoples’ lives: he has lent support and expertise to Not Forgotten,  an organization building  an orphanage in the rainforest of Peru.

Sandlin will open his visit with a public presentation (free of charge) at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 in Hard Auditorium.. He will then spend the next two days as rocket-scientist-in-residence, engaging faculty and students in what promises to be lively exchanges of ideas and insights while he demonstrates and demystifies the many laws of science. To register for the public event, please contact Pomfret’s Director of Marketing and Communications Sharon Gaudreau -  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 860.963.5951.

Physics and astronomy teacher Josh Lake is the coordinator of the Schwartz Visiting Fellow program. He said,  “Destin’s goal for the visit is to have our students see new things and consider them in a new light. He is largely based in science but he also wants to connect as many of the other disciplines as possible. He has much to discuss, about the big concepts: beauty, truth, wonder, curiosity, and the joy of discovery.”

This will mark the twenty-sixth year of the Schwartz Visiting Fellow program, an academic enrichment initiative begun in 1988 by brothers, alumni, and former trustees Michael ’66 and Eric Schwartz ‘69. 

 

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