{"id":928019,"date":"2026-08-18T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/my-60-million-science-experiment-mark-rober\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:18:19","slug":"my-60-million-science-experiment-mark-rober","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/my-60-million-science-experiment-mark-rober\/","title":{"rendered":"My $60 million science experiment | Mark Rober"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>2,941,151<\/p>\n<p> plays<span><\/span>|<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Mark Rober<\/span><\/p>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> TED2026 <\/p>\n<p> \u2022 April 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\">Mark Rober spent years trying to land a rover on Mars. Now, the former NASA engineer turned science YouTuber with millions of subscribers is launching a new mission: to teach the next generation of big problem solvers. That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s spending 60 million dollars to build a STEM curriculum kids actually want. With squirrel obstacle courses, giant lasers and elephant toothpaste explosions, who wouldn&#8217;t want to learn from YouTube&#8217;s top engineer?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span dir=\"ltr\">TED is supported by ads and partners<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ted.com\/markrober\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2,941,151 plays| Mark Rober | TED2026 \u2022 April 2026 Mark Rober spent years trying to land a rover on Mars. Now, the former NASA engineer turned science YouTuber with millions of subscribers is launching a new mission: to teach the next generation of big problem solvers. That&#8217;s why he&#8217;s spending 60 million dollars to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":928020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,3421,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-million","category-science","category-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}