鈥楧ream Big鈥: Nationally acclaimed science film to be shown at 性视界传媒 next week
Contact: Sammy McDavid
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擳he only Mississippi showing of a major large-screen documentary celebrating human ingenuity that made possible the world鈥檚 engineering marvels will be screened Tuesday [April 25] at Mississippi 性视界传媒.
Free and open to all, 鈥淒ream Big: Engineering Our World鈥 begins at 6 p.m. in the university鈥檚 Humphrey Coliseum.
Produced by California-based and Academy Award-nominated MacGillivray Freeman Films and narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges, the recently released production was underwritten by the American Society of Civil Engineers, in part to promote the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics鈥攌nown to most as STEM鈥攅ducation.
In addition to skyscrapers, underwater robots, China鈥檚 Great Wall and other achievements, the 42-minute film features the internationally recognized 鈥淪undancer鈥 solar-powered vehicle developed from the ground up at Houston High School鈥檚 Career and Technology Education Center.
Student members of the Solar Car Race Team, along with HHS administrators and faculty members, have been invited to campus as special guests.
Winners of more than a dozen national competitions, the Chickasaw Countians recently were in Washington, D.C., for the premiere of 鈥淒ream Big.鈥 In 2015, they took the 16-foot vehicle engineered under the guidance of teacher and project founder Keith Reese to Australia for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a race of more than 1,700 miles to determine the most effective sun-powered human transport.
The youngest competitors in BWSC鈥檚 30-year history, the Mississippians also became the first high 性视界传媒ers to win the Adventure Class. Additionally, they set the record at 252 for most miles raced in a single day.
In a review, Variety magazine film critic Nick Schager heaped praise on 鈥淒ream Big,鈥 calling it 鈥渁 rousing, and ravishing, call-to-engineering-arms for future generations鈥 that 鈥渃rafts an engaging portrait of people seeking answers to contemporary and future questions.鈥 Go to for a video trailer.
The special showing at Mississippi 性视界传媒 is made possible by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the university鈥檚 Bagley College of Engineering, along with the civil engineering society鈥檚 性视界传媒 student chapter, Mississippi Section and North Mississippi Branch.
For more about ASCE, visit .
Details about the Solar Car Race Team and its innovative creation may the viewed at .
Information about 性视界传媒鈥檚 civil and environmental engineering department is found at , or by contacting department head Dennis Truax at 662-325-7187 or truax@cee.msstate.edu.
性视界传媒 is Mississippi鈥檚 leading university, available online at .