Chemistry Is a Blast
October 2, 2023 Posted by: Eli Lilly and Company
Lilly’s “Chemistry Is a Blast!” presentations are 50% science class and 50% "wow!". Our “blasters” execute highly visual and stimulating chemistry demonstrations with proper safety precautions during the program. Students receive an education on the scientific method through observation and participation in the program. For more information or to schedule a program, contact a "Chemistry Is a Blast!" leader.
Chemistry is a Blast — See It in Action!
0:00 – 0:05 [The black screen fades away. Guy Hansen in a lab coat holding a beaker comes into the frame.] CAPTION: Guy Hansen: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 0:05 – 0:23 [Guy Hansen’s gloved hands in frame pouring liquid into a bucket generating a dense fog. The audience’s shoes covered in the fog come into view. Guy comes into frame again speaking to audience while standing next to a bucket with bubbling fog.] [On screen label: “Guy Hansen, retired Lilly Scientists, Coordinator of the “Chemistry is a Blast” Program] CAPTION: Guy Hansen: As a child, all of us kids played on this trampoline, one fell off the trampoline broke his arm, then they took him to the hospital. Several weeks later, took the cast off. His arm looks just fine. And that was amazing to me. And right then I thought, you know, that's what I want to do. 0:24 – 0:27 [Upbeat music playing in the background. Guy Hansen wearing a lab coat displaying how a fire extinguisher works.] CAPTION: I want to go into medicine, I want to go into science. 0:28 – 0:35 [Guy Hansen wearing a lab coat holding a mason jar full of water upside down. Then he slides the lid off and the water doesn’t rush out. Another scene with Guy using cryogenic gloves and dunking a balloon into liquid nitrogen, shrinking the balloon as if did not have any air inside. Then transitioning back to Hansen’s interview] CAPTION: Guy Hansen: Chemistry is a Blast has been around for over 20 years all over the state of Indiana, taking "Chemistry is a Blast" into schools. 0:36 – 0:41 [Mindy Forst in an interview setting wearing a lab coat.] [On screen label “Mindy Forst, Consultant Scientists, small molecule design and development”] CAPTION: Mindy Forst: I just love working with kids in general, I love seeing their faces light up. When you do that really cool experiment. 0:41 -0:43 [Frame transition to Guy Hansen wearing a lab coat and talking to the audience with the label “That Really Cool Experiment” on screen.] 0:44 – 0:51 [Transition back to Hansen’s interview, then to him wearing a lab coat and gloves while he drops a powder into a graduated cylinder and foam then comes rushing out, then him pouring liquid nitrogen into a bucket causing fog.] CAPTION: They're all calm at first. And then all of a sudden, things start blowing up and fog starts coming out. And the kids, they can't contain it. 0:50 – 0:52 CAPTION: Audience: WOW 0:52 – 1:02 [Frame transition to Hansen’s interview, then to Hansen wearing a lab coat and gloves while holding a balloon and talking to the audience.] CAPTION: Guy Hansen: They're not going to get interested if you hand them a very thick book and say, memorize all this. And the test is next week. The interesting part, and the motivating part, is for them to see science in action. 1:03 – 1:15 [Frame transition to Mindy Forst’s interview, then a liquid glowing blue spiraling down glassware with labeled text on screen “Science is something I want to do.” Frame transition to an assortment of graduate cylinders holding liquids of multiple colors with labeled text on screen “It’s Worth every Moment”] CAPTION: Mindy Forst: I hope that this will stick in their mind as something, as a moment where they said science is something I want to do. I want to be a part of that community. There's nothing that's not challenging about being a scientist, but it's worth every moment. 1:15 – 1:23 [Frame transition to Guy Hansen wearing a lab coat and gloves adding dry ice to volumetric cylinders holding colored liquids while talking to the audience.] CAPTION: Guy Hansen: We use the phrase all the time “Kids can be whatever they want to be.” That's partially true. They can if they have the right skill set. 1:23 - 1:25 [Frame transition to Hansen’s interview then to Hansen wearing a lab coat and gloves speaking to the audience with a label on screen “To be what you want to be”] CAPTION: Guy Hansen: Get those skills to match that will to be what you want to be. 1:26 – 1:29 [Audience Applause] CAPTION: Guy Hansen: Thank You. 1:30 – 1:34 [Transition to Eli Lilly and Company logo on screen over a red background while upbeat music fades out.]