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Re: White House announces major STEM initiative

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Originally Posted by Vince View Post
The White House also posted a Q/A session with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Dr. John P. Holdren on the project: Sec of Ed and Science & Tech Director Comments About FIRST

See the section that begins at 7:06 to hear what they think of FIRST.
Thanks Vince for posting this.

We just heard the Secretary of Education echo Dean's question "Why can't we have a robotics team in every high school?"

It sure looks like we have our work cut out for us early this year!
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