State of the Union to highlight science education

By Josh Fruhlinger, ITworld | Government, education, science Add a new comment

January 25, 2011, 5:25 PM —

President Obama delivers the State of the Union Address

President Obama delivers last year's State of the Union address.
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President Obama will be highlighting outstanding science students at today's State of the Union address, no doubt as part of his push for further investment in education. Not to take anything away from the young people he'll be featuring (I was most certainly not developing new cancer drugs when I was in junior high) but it's a bit disappointing to not see any IT-mad kids featured: no programmers, no electrical engineers. Perhaps enough kids dream of being the next Mark Zuckerberg that we don't need to promote these fields?

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