[6] He traveled to the Large Hadron Collider at CERN where he taught a live, first-person physics lesson from inside the particle accelerator.

[10] Vanden Heuvel is known for his work with educational technology, particularly his use of Google Glass to teach science[11] and his YouTube Channel STEMbite.

[3] This discovery was made on September 5, 2003 and the asteroid was later named in honor of Roger Griffioen, a long-time dean and department chair at Calvin University.

[13] While in graduate school at the University of Florida, Vanden Heuvel was part of the research team that discovered exoplanet, HD 102195b.

[5] As a physics teacher at The Prairie School in Racine, WI, Vanden Heuvel discovered four more asteroids while working on a class project with his students:[14] 210425 Imogene,[4] 212925,[15] 504423,[16] and 597965.