Inspire The Next Generation Of Problem Solvers

SPAM is not educational!

math and science will do it! LOL!

you are so right Jan, one of the biggest mistakes this nation made was divorcing the arts from the sciences, and hopefully we are beginning to realize that mistake and reunite these very different, but very delightfully connected ways of seeing the world.

Do not forget English as well! or iz dis how ya want our youth to right? :) I completely agree about the arts they are much needed in our school systems. Its needed for the sake of knowledge and mental health, it teaches expression,diversity, emotional intelligence, and hand eye coordination

Absolutely. Science is art, music is math. It is all interrelated.

oh bullshit, you don't know what you are talking about, and that is exactly the kind of advice that will defeat the next generation before they even get started. You need to get off the video games for a while and join the real world again.

STEM initiatives in this nation have been a real challenge, and mostly, I blame parents who are too busy doing whatever to invest time and guidance into their child's education, but for the poor, that whatever is keeping food on the table. We have all been more concerned with making sure our kids have the latest techno gadgets than we are about encouraging the grasp our child might have on what makes those techno gadgets work, which is something called chaos theory if you are playing video games. Don't kid yourself though, our children may be falling behind in STEM fields, but this is still the place to be if you have even a drop of entrepreneurial blood in you, which is why the brightest Indians and Chinese are still coming here to get a STEM education, and very few of them return home once they do.

If the spam that has been flooding this site from China should demonstrate anything to us, it should be crystal clear that China is trying very hard to be the US, which is a pity that demonstrates a certain cultural ignorance on the part of China, and they are playing catch up there, because meanwhile the US, hopefully, is waking up from their Rip Van Winkle sleep, and beginning to understand that progress is a double-edged sword, and there are many things much more valuable than the production and consumption of consumer goods. The Connect a Million Minds initiative is part of that waking up process, and it WILL succeed.

that is all you see because your vision is clouded. Open some windows and let the pot smoke out. (I know, I sound like ayipis)

and yes, I'll still love you in the morning ;-0