Celebrating 11 Years: The Proton Prom
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week, in anticipation of our first annual Proton Prom on Thursday, June 3, we’re sharing stories from two of our featured storytellers! Champion storyteller Steve Zimmer and physicist and comedian Saad Sarwana have both appeared on our podcast in years past.
Part 1: Against the odds, animal-loving kid Steve Zimmer attempts to rescue tadpoles in jeopardy.
Steve Zimmer is a member of The Story Collider board. He has a PhD in Economics/Applied Math, is ABD in Biochemistry, spent 6 years working in an immunology lab, and has severe ADD. Steve quit storytelling in 2016 after winning a then-record 26 Moth story slams, and a still-record 7 GrandSLAMs. This is his first time back. Steve has just finished the manuscript of a black-comedy mystery called Murder at the Moth.
This story originally aired on our podcast in 2014.
Part 2: Saad Sarwana tries to juggle careers in physics and comedy.
Saad Sarwana is a Physicist and Stand-up Comedian. As a physicist he works in superconductor electronics and is the author of over 40 peer reviewed publications and the inventor behind two US patents. As a comedian he has been doing standup and Improvisational comedy for over 20 years, and even won a Moth StorySlam. For 6 years and over 100 episodes Saad was on the Science Channel TV show “Outrageous Acts of Science”. He is also the creator and host of the 'Science Fiction and Fantasy Spelling Bee'. Previously he has told Physics and Math inspired stories for The Story Collider. He lives in Westchester County, NY with his wife and kids.
This story originally aired on our podcast in 2018.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:07.0 | I felt... |
| 0:08.0 | I felt right. |
| 0:09.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | ...theid... Hey everybody, welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm your host, Aaron Barker. As you may have heard in a previous episode, the Storycliter is planning a big celebration of science storytelling for this coming Thursday, June 3rd. |
| 0:41.7 | At 7 p.m. Eastern Time will begin streaming from our venue in New York City, caveat, where our performers and host Gastroa L'Amante will be live on stage for the first time and over a year. |
| 0:54.2 | Even though our audience will be online, we're so excited for this first step back to |
| 0:58.8 | normalcy to be back on a real live stage again. |
| 1:02.7 | We're calling this very special event the proton prom, and all proceeds from it will go |
| 1:08.4 | towards StoryClider shows, this podcast, and our workshops, |
| 1:12.5 | which train hundreds of scientists in storytelling skills to improve their science communication |
| 1:17.0 | every year. |
| 1:18.6 | Since this is the proton prom, after all, we'll have a virtual photo booth where you can share |
| 1:23.5 | selfies and even take selfies with other attendees and performers, even if you aren't in the |
| 1:28.4 | same place, so you can show off your best science form aware. And most importantly, we will, of course, |
| 1:34.9 | have brand new, true personal stories about science from some New York-based science storytellers |
| 1:40.7 | whom you know and love from past episodes of this podcast. |
| 1:47.4 | We would absolutely love to see you there virtually. |
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