Steve Crabtree gets an unusual start to his career: watching paint dry.
Steve Crabtree left school aged 15 in 1985 and started work as a painter & decorator in Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Limited in Barrow in Furness, where he painted nuclear submarines. Steve left the shipyard in 1992, went to Art College and after leaving college – and teaching music technology for a short time - started at the BBC in January 1999 as a junior researcher on ‘Tomorrow’s World’. Steve has produced and directed much of the BBC’s Science, Arts and Business programming, and made programs across all four BBC television channels. He is now the Editor of flagship BBC Science Strand ‘Horizon’ - now in its 52nd Year.
This story originally aired on May 20, 2016 in an episode titled “Painting A Nuclear Submarine.”
Joshua Adams-Miller has never seen college in his future, until he receives encouragement from an unexpected source.
After Kenny Kinds begins lying to his parents about his grades, he has to question why he is in engineering school in the first place.
Engineering PhD student Jeannie Purchase sets out to help a couple in rural South Carolina who have endured dirty tap water for a decade.
After finding out her uterus never developed, scientist Chivonne Battle searches for an alternative way to become a mother.
Ali Mustafa finds that the scars of war stay with him even at his new job in the lab.
Ted Olds fears he’ll fail to graduate after his parents sacrificed to send him to engineering school.
Keoni Mahelona leaves his home in Hawaii in pursuit of science.
Environmental engineer Siddhartha Roy is baffled when the state of Michigan insists the water in Flint is safe to drink despite his scientific evidence.
Worried she won't ever be able to commit to one field of study, Dale Markowitz decides to go all in on a neuroscience project.
Engineering student Selam Gano returns to her father’s home country of Ethiopia with the hopes of providing clean water to the village where he grew up.