The Amazing Chemistry Show is a 32-foot stage production filled with fire, explosions and foam, all set to music. With audience involvement, laughter and fun, the message of Jesus Christ is clearly communicated using powerful illustrations.The message of the Amazing Chemistry Show can easily come along side the specific needs of your event. Are you looking for a church event that will clearly communicate the Good News of Jesus Christ in a captivating, memorable and winsome way?As the director of a large children' ministry at a local church, Josh knows the value of a quality production for communicating Biblical truth. Josh has participated in AWANA Celebrations, VBS closing programs, and Upward Sports Banquets. Josh has been active in inner city outreaches where language and cultural barriers are masterfully broken down through a very visual presentation of the message of salvation
Are you looking for an event that will engage and inspire the entire family? The Family Experience is a highly interactive event, allowing families to explore over 150 individual hands-on science experiences at their own pace. Families freely investigate a diverse cross-section of activities across multiple scientific disciplines. This self-directed "Traveling Science Center" allows enriching, inquiry-based interactions to evoke wonder within a powerful context - the family.
A typical Family Experience is a 2-3 hour event, located in a large meeting space like a gym or cafeteria, lined with 20, eight-foot tables, each packed with "science stuff" to touch, see and explore. Everyone participates! Everyone is involved! This stimulating series of hands-on science experiences takes science learning to the next level.
The culmination of the Family Experience brings everyone together for a captivating 1 hour presentation of "Amazing Chemistry Show" stage production. Fire, explosions, foam and fun - for all ages!
"We are launching in...3...2...1..." Who wouldn't like to create their own custom rocket and launch it over 200 feet in the air? Chose from over 15 unique rocket designs. Rockets are crafted from printed color-card stock paper, complete with rocket fins and colorfully printed "flames" shooting from the base.
Outside, students launch their handmade and personally decorated rockets 200 feet in the sky! The unique launching apparatus is completely safe, staying away from explosions, flame or heat. Students chose the direction and pitch of launch using a telescoping arm for maximizing height or distance...their choice!
Students learn about pressure, air, rocket balance, gravity, trajectory, plus so much more. The "Ready, Set, Rocket" experience also includes stomp rockets, rocket balloons and so much more! Similar to every "Amazing Chemistry Show" Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner adds to the excitement during building and launching!
Be amazed as you explore the world around us in a brand new way - magnified over 200 times! Using a hand-held digital microscope, easily view normally unseen details on a large screen television or projector - live and in real time!
Explore an insects eyes, legs and body parts like you have never seen before. Examine the delicate details of the parts of a flower. Examine your fingerprints, hair follicles and even the details of your shirt. Other interesting items include a computer chip, seeds, leaves, and so much more...!
Students learn about magnification, microscopes, and magnifying glasses, while exploring everyday items in highly memorable ways. This jaw-dropping experience mesmerizes participants of all ages and gives a new found appreciation of the...Micro World around us!
Similar to every Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner adds to the excitement and professionalism of exploration.
"This is a totally ELECTRIC experience!"
Students learn about electrons, conductivity, open and closed circuits, electrical safety, plus so much more. The "Extreme Electricity" experience includes 3 plasma globes, a hand-crank generator, a Van De Graff generator (creating over 400,000 Volts of static electricity) and much more! This hands-on experience will leave your hair stand on end!
Let's learn about circuits...in a totally memorable way! Students participate in a "human" electric circuit, where open and closed circuits are as simple as holding and letting go of hands!
Totally safe, totally exciting and totally electrifying, this hands-on experience is sure to bring a spark to student learning!
Similar to every "Amazing Chemistry Show" Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner (shown to the left) adds to the excitement during exploration and electrical investigation!
Ready...Aim...Fire...! Build your own working catapult with your very own hands! This Hands-On Experience is high on history, high on interaction and high on impact...literally!
Students learn the historical details of medieval warfare from an ancient engineering perspective. Explore concepts like speed, acceleration, angular momentum, projectiles and applied sciences. Three historically accurate and intriguing wooden models show how medieval kingdoms utilized technology to launch attack from great distances.
Each student will build a working catapult, make a graphically rich castle from card-stock paper and determine the best distance, force required and technique to land a projectile inside the castle walls.
This two part learning cycle involves two separate yet equally fun activities. First, students will create a working catapult from a standard design. In the second part of the learning cycle, teams of students will attempt to design and create a launching apparatus and a projectile from a bag of seemingly random items. Design, form, function and teamwork allow for an exciting and memorable open-ended experience!
"Science is SO attractive!" Yes... this is Magnet Mania... the most "attractive" of the Amazing Chemistry Show Hand-On Experiences!
Students learn about electrons, attractive forces, repulsive forces, poles, charge, plus much more. The "Magnet Mania" experience includes ferro-fluid magnetically attractive liquids, red/blue polar spheres, iron magnetic field location, and so much more!
"World's Strongest Magnets" - Neodymium magnets - are sure to drop students' jaws! Wow...those magnets are strong! Students will learn about the amazing phenomenon of "Eddy Currents", using a 1-meter, thick walled copper tube!
Similar to every "Amazing Chemistry Show" Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner adds to the excitement exploration and magnetic discovery!
This hands-on experience captivates students of all ages...ages 3 to 83 years! They say, "Opposites Attract - Likes Repel"; this magnetic experience is sure to "pull" students right in to fun and learning!
Imagine a 5 foot tall plexi glass tube, 12-inches in diameter. Under the large tube is a high powered fan. Kids build their own unique contraption from a set of random items: pipe cleaners, toothpicks, coffee filters, foam blocks, popsicle sticks, straws, and more. Kids place their creations in the Vortex Wind Tunnel and and they test their new creation. If it flies up and out you are a winner! If their contraption gets stuck, we retrieve it and they go back to the drawing board. This is one epic station!
Students pick from 7 custom paper airplane designs. These graphically rich designs have the folding instructions to create an amazing and unique paper airplane. This is one popular stations at the Family Experience as adults and kids put their folding to the test! While this is the easiest station to set up, it is an absolute hit with families!
This station has 20+ hand crafted puzzles that will put your brain to the test. These custom wooden creations will keep kids and adults of all ages deeply engaged through math puzzles, spatial reasoning puzzles, bridge construction and more. This station is one of the most popular stations at the family experience. These one-of-a-kind puzzles will stimulate fun, teamwork and engagement for all.
"Hands-On Science" is a series of Science-Center-type activities with many, many self-directed stations to touch, explore and experience. With nearly 30 activities, students and families set their own pace for exploration and investigation! Each activity station features an explanation of how to explore and some science clues as to what causes the effect.
This exploratory event is perfect for larger groups and allows for family interaction around science themes. Watch out! Learners of all ages be transformed into kids-at-heart! These engaging activities capture mom's and dad's and turn them into inquisitive explorers as well!
Prepare to get you hands involved and your minds engaged! This hands-on experience is sure to bring about an excitement for science and exploration!
The "Day of Science" is a series of highly engaging science experiences for schools, where hands-on, inquiry-based scientific exploration captures the hearts and minds of our students without leaving the building.
Teachers rave about this all day experience. "It was better than any field trip we have ever taken... It was like the field trip came... to us! All the materials were provided to us and we (the teachers) just facilitated the process. The kids loved it"
Strategically placing "The Day of Science" can turn a typically challenging day on the school calendar, into the most memorable day of your year! Schools often use this powerful and fun-filled day of science engagement on "one of those days of the year" when student engagement wains.
Josh has facilitated the "Day of Science" with schools over 1,000 students, with 40 individual classrooms simultaneously rotating through a well-defined and seamless day of engagement. Regardless of the school size, the "Day of Science" will prove to be a powerfully memorable experience.
"We are launching in...3...2...1..." Who wouldn't like to create their own custom rocket and launch it over 200 feet in the air? Chose from over 15 unique rocket designs. Rockets are crafted from printed color-card stock paper, complete with rocket fins and colorfully printed "flames" shooting from the base.
Outside, students launch their handmade and personally decorated rockets 200 feet in the sky! The unique launching apparatus is completely safe, staying away from explosions, flame or heat. Students chose the direction and pitch of launch using a telescoping arm for maximizing height or distance...their choice!
Students learn about pressure, air, rocket balance, gravity, trajectory, plus so much more. The "Ready, Set, Rocket" experience also includes stomp rockets, rocket balloons and so much more! Similar to every "Amazing Chemistry Show" Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner adds to the excitement during building and launching!
Be amazed as you explore the world around us in a brand new way - magnified over 200 times! Using a hand-held digital microscope, easily view normally unseen details on a large screen television or projector - live and in real time!
Explore an insects eyes, legs and body parts like you have never seen before. Examine the delicate details of the parts of a flower. Examine your fingerprints, hair follicles and even the details of your shirt. Other interesting items include a computer chip, seeds, leaves, and so much more...!
Students learn about magnification, microscopes, and magnifying glasses, while exploring everyday items in highly memorable ways. This jaw-dropping experience mesmerizes participants of all ages and gives a new found appreciation of the...Micro World around us!
Similar to every Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner adds to the excitement and professionalism of exploration.
"This is a totally ELECTRIC experience!"
Students learn about electrons, conductivity, open and closed circuits, electrical safety, plus so much more. The "Extreme Electricity" experience includes 3 plasma globes, a hand-crank generator, a Van De Graff generator (creating over 400,000 Volts of static electricity) and much more! This hands-on experience will leave your hair stand on end!
Let's learn about circuits...in a totally memorable way! Students participate in a "human" electric circuit, where open and closed circuits are as simple as holding and letting go of hands!
Totally safe, totally exciting and totally electrifying, this hands-on experience is sure to bring a spark to student learning!
Similar to every "Amazing Chemistry Show" Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner (shown to the left) adds to the excitement during exploration and electrical investigation!
Ready...Aim...Fire...! Build your own working catapult with your very own hands! This Hands-On Experience is high on history, high on interaction and high on impact...literally!
Students learn the historical details of medieval warfare from an ancient engineering perspective. Explore concepts like speed, acceleration, angular momentum, projectiles and applied sciences. Three historically accurate and intriguing wooden models show how medieval kingdoms utilized technology to launch attack from great distances.
Each student will build a working catapult, make a graphically rich castle from card-stock paper and determine the best distance, force required and technique to land a projectile inside the castle walls.
This two part learning cycle involves two separate yet equally fun activities. First, students will create a working catapult from a standard design. In the second part of the learning cycle, teams of students will attempt to design and create a launching apparatus and a projectile from a bag of seemingly random items. Design, form, function and teamwork allow for an exciting and memorable open-ended experience!
"Oooh... Gross... This is Awesome!" Students try their hands as Chemists as they measure, pour, mix and test their own unique mixture of "Super Slime".
Make Slime... YUCK!
Make Gloop... GROSS!
Make Glow-in-the-Dark Atomic Worms... DISGUSTINGLY COOL!
Students are witness to a vivid slime demonstration with a polymer that “pours uphill”. Black-Lights help bring these oozing "Non-Newtonian Solids" to life in the dark.
Students learn about concepts such as measurement, scientific testing, gravity, viscosity, elasticity, polymers, plastics and long-chain carbon-based structures...with their hands! Basic chemical safety is introduced using simple and non-toxic chemicals.
Similar to every "Amazing Chemistry Show" Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner (shown to the left) adds to the excitement during Polymer Making and Testing!
"This is just like being a real Scientist!"
First, students carefully make observations prior to the reaction...anticipations builds! Next, as instructions are given, the plastic vial holding the red liquid is squeezed onto one side of the plastic zip-lock bag...woah...a vivid color change...double woah...this side is HOT! Then, as further instructions are given, the remaining red liquid is introduced to the other side of our reaction vessel...yikes...another vivid color change...double yikes...this side is FRIGID COLD! Finally, all ingredients are squished together...but the results of the rest of the reaction will remain a surprise...and an exciting surprise, indeed!
This classic reaction is such a wonderful experience for young learners to make scientific observations, view evidences of chemical changes and record their findings on age appropriate worksheets!
This safe, non-toxic and easily disposable hands-on experience maximizes excitement and minimizes any hazards. Although the substances involved are common and safe, rest assured, the contents of the reaction never leave the zip-lock bag!
Similar to every "Amazing Chemistry Show" Hands-On Experience, a seven foot tall brightly colored pull-up tension banner adds to the excitement during exploration and observation!
"If you are looking for something that kids and families will go nuts over, you need to bring Josh Denhart and his Amazing Chemistry Show to your church or organization. I have watched this show numerous times and literally sit on the edge of my seat every time! Josh is a genius at teaching Biblical truth in a fun and memorable way. I can’t recommend Josh and this program enough. You will love it!"
Yancy
Singer / Songwriter / Worship Leader
"It’s amazing how God can take his love for science and experience as a teacher mixed with his pastor’s heart to help kids know Jesus.”
"I have had the opportunity to work with Josh at a couple different events. My first hand experience is that he brings something very unique and fresh to his presentation of the gospel. His use of science and experiments to make the truth of the Bible come alive in young hearts in unparalleled. It’s amazing how God can take his love for science and experience as a teacher mixed with his pastor’s heart to help kids know Jesus.”
Larry Fowler
Executive Director of Global Networking, AWANA International
"Josh Denhart's Amazing Chemistry Show is not only very entertaining, but more importantly, his illustrations of Bible truths are rock-solid.”
"Josh Denhart's Amazing Chemistry Show is not only very entertaining, but more importantly, his illustrations of Bible truths are rock-solid. He certainly creates chemistry with his audience, and he also leaves them impressed with the spiritual principle being illustrated. I've seen others whose "show" overwhelms the truth; Josh is different; his spiritual applications come through clearly, and demonstrates a well-thought out Biblical foundation and application. He makes truth explode (sometimes, literally) with meaning!"
Brian Dollar
Full-time Children’s Pastor, Creator of High Voltage Kids Ministry
“The Amazing Chemistry Show” is perhaps the best show we have ever hosted at our church! I can’t imagine NOT having Josh back again!”
“The Amazing Chemistry Show” is perhaps the best show we have ever hosted at our church! Every child AND adult had an absolute blast with all of the foam, fire, and fun! Josh was hilarious, and the audience participation took it over the top! My senior pastor turned to me multiple times and declared, “This is a HOME RUN!” From the stage set to the comedy to the powerful Gospel presentation, Josh had everyone dialed in from the start! As someone who hosts a TON of Kids Ministry performers, I was thoroughly impressed with the ease of hosting this show. Josh made is super-easy by sending me emails WAY ahead of the show to help with planning the details. The load-in was super-easy, and the load-out was even easier. I can’t imagine NOT having Josh back again! I think my entire church would DEMAND that I bring him back! I encourage every church to consider an event with “The Amazing Chemistry Show.” It will not disappoint!!”
David Laflin
Nationally Recognized Christian Illusionist/Performer and Full-time Children’s Pastor
“Josh presented the gospel in a crystal clear way. Our experience with Josh and The Amazing Chemistry show was absolutely fantastic and exceeded our expectations. We cannot wait to have him back!"
“We had an absolutely incredible time hosting The Amazing Chemistry Show Family Experience. Josh was very clear and organized with his setup needs, which made this simple for us to host. Our volunteers knew what to do, and they all had a blast! We actually gained several new volunteers in our children’s ministry through their experience serving at The Amazing Chemistry Show. This was a super fun and engaging event that is truly an experience the entire family enjoyed together! One of my favorite things about this event was seeing the number of Dad’s who were actively participating with their kids during the time of hands-on experiments. Our families really had a blast! When it came time for the show, Josh presented a show that was very engaging for the audience. There were numerous moments in which we could hear the audience audibly ooh and ahh together. Josh presented the gospel in a crystal clear way. Our experience with Josh and The Amazing Chemistry show was absolutely fantastic and exceeded our expectations. We cannot wait to have him back! I have known Josh for 10 years, and I LOVE the enthusiasm and firm biblical foundation he brings to all he does! The way he blends his knowledge and gift of science with ministry is incredible and captivating!”
Keith Ferrin
Speaker, Biblical Storyteller, and author of “How to Enjoy Reading Your Bible”
Josh has a gift for amazing his audience (young and old) with science, teaching biblical truth, keeping us laughing the whole time, and weaving it all together to point us to the Creator. Book him. Your entire church will love it!