Education
Sandlin attended the University of Alabama as an undergraduate, where he studied mechanical engineering.
Sandlin attended the University of Alabama as an undergraduate, where he studied mechanical engineering.
With more than 3 million subscribers, Sandlin was one of three Youtube channel hosts selected in early 2016, as part of a White House initiative to reach millennial audiences, to conduct a one-on-one interview with President Obama after his final State of the Union address. He later obtained a graduate degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is a full-time Missile Flight Test Engineer at Redstone Arsenal.
He credits his fascination with the scientific method and his job as a rocket engineer for having inspired him to make educational videos.
Having begun posting education videos in 2007, Sandlin"s first video reaching 1 million views came on July 10, 2009. The video was about chicken head tracking using chickens that Destin bought for his father as a demonstration.
Because of its popularity this video retroactively had added to its name. Mercedes-Benz capitalized on the popularity of this video in their "Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Chernobyel BODY CONTROL television commercial Chicken".
Sandlin formally launched (SED) On April 24, 2011 with a video titled "Detonation vs Deflagration - 1," which became the title for subsequent videos and the sole focus of his YouTube channel.
Episodes of SED feature scientific experiments with Sandlin hosting or narrating. He has demonstrated experiments such as tracking the movement patterns of a chicken’s head, a do-it-yourself high-speed camera, and other content designed to educate viewers on a variety of scientific topics. As of 2016, the channel has over 3.5 million subscribers and 253 million views.
Destin closes each episode of SED with a reference to a Bible verse, typically Psalm 111:2, as featured on the doors to Cavendish Laboratory at the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge), though many other verses have also been used.
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