[ebarker]

It looks like the 5 years gains, just some sample data points

2009 2014
Michigan 132 350 teams
Minnesota 81 179
California 145 234
Georgia 28 61
New York 122 139
Texas 91 109

I remember in 2009 Michigan was almost desperate to get economic development done, and there was an aggressive push on all fronts..

I'm interested in seeing how this works out in a few years with economic development in that state.

It would be nice to start building charts for each state with plot lines for the following
____teams / million population
____STEM undergraduate degree production
____gross state economic output

There should be some interesting time delays between team startup and degree production. There should be some interesting way to normalize the economic data to make some sense.

I'm working on building models for correlating FIRST with degree production and economic output. This data is key for creating policy support for FIRST.

I need to go dig deeply in Michigan data on STEM degree production rates and technologist production rates. That could be golden information.


Ed