{"id":5553,"date":"2015-03-19T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttinvent.com?p=5553&#038;preview_id=5553"},"modified":"2015-11-07T07:12:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T15:12:07","slug":"027-brent-bushnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=5553","title":{"rendered":"027 &#8211; STEAM Carnival with Brent Bushnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a id=\"backtotop\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"smart-track-player-container stp-color-60b86c-EEEEEE spp-stp-desktop\" data-uid=\"38b4765a\"><\/div><div class=\"spp-shsp-form spp-shsp-form-38b4765a\"><\/div>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"360\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5603 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve-337x500.png\" alt=\"Steve Kurti of Table Top Inventing with Brent Bushnell of Two-Bit Circus\" width=\"350\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve-337x500.png 337w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve-691x1024.png 691w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve-300x445.png 300w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve-574x851.png 574w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve.png 710w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><p><div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/table-top-inventing\/id924905062?mt=2&amp;uo=4\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-stroked\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#2A339F;border-color:#222980;border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:6px 16px;font-size:13px;line-height:20px;border-color:#6a71bc;border-radius:5px;-moz-border-radius:5px;-webkit-border-radius:5px;text-shadow:none;-moz-text-shadow:none;-webkit-text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-thumbs-o-up\" style=\"font-size:13px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i> Leave a Review in iTunes<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>\r\n<h2 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0Get updates every week. <\/span><br \/>\r\n <span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Subscribe in iTunes, YouTube, or Libsyn!<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/table-top-inventing\/id924905062\" target=\"_blank&quot;\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/iTunes.jpg\" alt=\"Subscribe in iTunes\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.libsyn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/libsyn.jpg\" alt=\"Subscribe in Libsyn\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=TableTopInventing\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/YouTube-Button-150x150.png\" alt=\"YouTube-Button\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/div>\r\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/div>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">[<a title=\"Jump to &quot;In This Episode&quot;\" href=\"#InThisEpisode\">In This Episode<\/a>][<a title=\"Jump to &quot;Guest Bio&quot;\" href=\"#GuestBio\">Guest Bio<\/a>][<a title=\"Jump to &quot;Additional Notes&quot;\" href=\"#AdditionalNotes\">Additional Notes<\/a>][<a title=\"Jump to &quot;Text Transcript&quot;\" href=\"#TextTranscript\">Text Transcript<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 275px; vertical-align: top;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a id=\"InThisEpisode\"><\/a>In This Episode<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentSteve.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5604 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentBushnell.png\" alt=\"027_brentBushnell\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentBushnell.png 428w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentBushnell-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentBushnell-75x75.png 75w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentBushnell-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentBushnell-400x400.png 400w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/027_brentBushnell-350x350.png 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>Where can I find a circus that employs engineers?\u00a0 Can learning to prepare sushi impact engineering ideas?\u00a0 How can we rebrand Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math to be fun?\u00a0 How do we make STEM subjects more like driving a Ferrari than like driving a grocery getter? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, we have a high-energy, fun interview with an engineer who has started a high-tech circus! Creating more intelligent, creative, fun innovators is what we specialize in at Table Top Inventing. In fact, an opportunity is coming this summer to participate in our Inventor&#8217;s Bootcamp. I get really excited about Inventor&#8217;s Bootcamp because there&#8217;s nothing more fun than a room full of teenagers building crazy engineering contraptions with 3D printers and wiring them up with a little electronic trickery and programming fun. It&#8217;s enough to make your head spin!<\/p>\n<p>To find out more visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.TTInvent.com\/BootcampNow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.TTInvent.com\/BootcampNow<\/a>\u00a0or you can just visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.TTInvent.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.TTInvent.com<\/a> and click the <strong>Inventor&#8217;s Bootcamp<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>Grab a hold of something solid because today&#8217;s podcast is going to rock your world! Brent Bushnell, the founder and CEO of Two-Bit Circus, is going to blow the doors off. Brent and his business partner Eric have started a high-tech circus staffed not with circus barkers and tight rope walkers but with engineers, scientists, and computer programmers. Let&#8217;s listen in to a high flying conversation!<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 275px; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.8888893127441px; line-height: 31.1111125946045px;\"><strong><a id=\"Brent's\"><\/a>Brent&#8217;s Favorite Quote<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp9PzL0-1rz&#038;text=Inspiration%20usually%20comes%20during%20work%2C%20rather%20than%20before%20it%20-%20Madeleine%20L%E2%80%99Engle&#038;via=ttinvent&#038;related=ttinvent' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it - Madeleine L\u2019Engle <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp9PzL0-1rz&#038;text=Inspiration%20usually%20comes%20during%20work%2C%20rather%20than%20before%20it%20-%20Madeleine%20L%E2%80%99Engle&#038;via=ttinvent&#038;related=ttinvent' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click To Tweet<\/a><\/span>\n<p>Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it &#8211; Madeleine L\u2019Engle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 275px; vertical-align: top;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A teacher that inspired you&#8230;<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thomas Woosnam, my high school physics teacher. His class was very project-based with us doing a variety of tasks ranging from marble runs to inventing our own solution to a safety problem. It was the most engaged I was in any class.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 275px; vertical-align: top;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The last thing you made&#8230;<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">I made my dining room table! When we moved into our current workshop there were three rusted metal banisters. I cleaned them up, bought angled steel and with the help of our lead engineer Dan Busby, welded them all together. Then I got a beautiful, thick piece of glass\u00a0cut for the top of it. <a href=\"http:\/\/brentbushnell.com\/2012\/12\/26\/makingfurniture\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/brentbushnell.com\/2012\/12\/26\/makingfurniture\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 275px; vertical-align: top;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">What are you learning about&#8230;<\/span><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hockey only has three periods. (I&#8217;m not much of a sports fan)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 275px; vertical-align: top;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a id=\"About\"><\/a>About Brent<br \/> <\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Brent Bushnell is the CEO of Two Bit Circus, a Los Angeles-based experiential entertainment company. Most recently the team launched STEAM Carnival, a modern re-imagining of the midway to inspire kids about science, technology, engineering, art and math. Previously he was the on-camera inventor for the ABC TV show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He was a cofounder of Anti-Aging Games creating casual games to reduce the risk of early memory loss and a founding member of Syyn Labs, a creative collective combining art and engineering to create high engagement for large brands and bands including Google, Disney and responsible for the viral hit Rube Goldberg music video for OK Go that garnered 40 million views on YouTube. In his spare time, Brent mentors teens in game development and entrepreneurship via programs such as Spark and NFTE. He publishes at <a href=\"http:\/\/brentbushnell.com\" target=\"_blank\">brentbushnell.com<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brentbushnell\" target=\"_blank\">@brentbushnell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a id=\"AdditionalNotes\"><\/a>Additional Notes<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Contact Brent:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/twobitcircus.com\">http:\/\/twobitcircus.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter: @brentbushnell<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>STEAM Carnival: <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcarnival.com\/\">http:\/\/steamcarnival.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Two-Bit Circus: <a href=\"http:\/\/twobitcircus.com\/\">http:\/\/twobitcircus.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>YOU MUST WATCH THIS!! OK Go, &#8220;This too shall pass&#8221; (Rube Goldberg done with Two-bit Circus): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qybUFnY7Y8w<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 275px; vertical-align: top;\" colspan=\"2\" valign=\"center\" width=\"275\">\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a id=\"TextTranscript\"><\/a>Full Text Transcript &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Coming Soon!<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"15\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: ffffff;\">\n<td>\n<p>&#8220;How do you craft your message so that it&#8217;s heard and resonates?\u00a0 Regardless of what you&#8217;re doing in the world, you need to be able to give people the right information at the right time.&#8221; &#8211;Brent Bushnell<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp9PzL0-1rz&#038;text=How%20do%20you%20craft%20your%20message%20so%20that%20it%27s%20heard%20and%20resonates%3F%20%20Regardless%20of%20what%20you%27re%20doing%20in%20the%20world%2C%20you%20need%20to%20be%20able%20to%20give%20people%20the%20right%20information%20at%20the%20right%20time.%20%40brentbushnell&#038;via=ttinvent&#038;related=ttinvent' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How do you craft your message so that it&#039;s heard and resonates?  Regardless of what you&#039;re doing in the world, you need to be able to give people the right information at the right time. @brentbushnell <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwp.me%2Fp9PzL0-1rz&#038;text=How%20do%20you%20craft%20your%20message%20so%20that%20it%27s%20heard%20and%20resonates%3F%20%20Regardless%20of%20what%20you%27re%20doing%20in%20the%20world%2C%20you%20need%20to%20be%20able%20to%20give%20people%20the%20right%20information%20at%20the%20right%20time.%20%40brentbushnell&#038;via=ttinvent&#038;related=ttinvent' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click To Tweet<\/a><\/span>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;I think that sales should be a part of all education.&#8221; \u00a0&#8211;Brent Bushnell<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"15\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>&#8220;Engineering and Science have a branding problem, but here [at Two Bit Circus] we play with lasers and fire and robots all day!&#8221; &#8211;Brent Bushnell<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#backtotop\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/top.gif\" alt=\"Click here to go to the top of the page\" width=\"17\" height=\"9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where can I find a circus that employs engineers?  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