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Science Performance with Jo Hecker
“Don’t be afraid of science!” is an interactive science performance for curious people. The experiments shine a new light on to everyday items. Or did you know that a yogurt cup has a memory? Potato chips are connected to food acoustic design? Powder found in diapers is also used in athletic shoes and car seats, and that you can extinguish a fire with that same powder? You can listen with your teeth? Or that you can put a burning glove into your jacket to extinguish it?
The audience is encouraged to get on stage and participate in the performance – for example, to create a human electric circuit, to make peanuts audible, to listen like a bat, to be able to hear a pulse, to measure one’s strengths with air pressure, or to create artificial snow.
Joachim Hecker studied electrical engineering and, after finishing his diploma, worked as a designing engineer at a major research institution. Since 1995 he has been working for Public German Broadcast at the West German Radio Station (WDR) in Cologne and for 18 years he has been a science editor and first reporter in the editorial department for science.
When a space mission launches, if it’s the relativity theory’s birthday, if a new virus is threatening our computers or when simply the leaves are falling off the trees, he enters the studio and explains what is happening and why.
For more than 15 years Jo Hecker has also been the author of the series “Hecker’s Wizard’s Kitchen – Experiments for Kids” for the WDR.
He is the author of four German bestsellers
- The Children’s Brockhaus. Experiments – Tracing Natural Science
- The Children’s Brockhaus. Ingenious Experiments – Trying Out Natural Science
- The Little Scientists House – Exciting Do It Yourself Experiments” as a book (translated into six languages) and as an audio book
- Let’s Ask...The Mouse! Trying Out and Exploring Exciting and Amazing Experiments”.
- His fifth book “Starship of Little Scientist” will be published at the beginning of 2017.
Jo Hecker has taken the experiments from his books and made his own, interactive science show with which he performs nationally and internationally.
You can find more information about Joachim Hecker's current books here:
The Little Scientists' Spaceship
The House of Little Scientists
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