Obama Calls for Annual Science Fair: Achievement Should be Recognized like NCAA Championship Win

“The president said that for far too long the United States has lagged behind the rest of the world in developing young minds apt to math and science – and noted that during his trip last week to Asia he was struck by the difference.”
Liberals have systematically demolished the school system and now want to pretend it’s someone else’s fault. What a joke!
How about praising all the companies that already do this instead of showboating and pretending only the government cares about the future of our kids?
Many companies such as Intel already do this – and have done it for decades.
“Founded in 1989, the Intel Foundation is a philanthropic organization focused on programs that advance education and improve communities worldwide. By providing funding for national and localized grants, the foundation helps fuel innovation in classrooms, empower women and underserved youth, and enables Intel employees to serve the needs of their communities. The goals of the Intel Foundation are to increase interest in math and science education, and to help develop a future workforce that represents the diversity around the world.” -Intel dot com

I’d rather the government focus its financial efforts on keeping colleges and university education affordable for students with an aptitude for math and/or science.
Currently, the University of California system is having to raise tuition fees 32% to make up for budget gaps. UC schools are among the finest science schools in the country, and the fact that they are public- affordable- universities that cater to local students is a bonus to the state as well as the country.
Students will study where there are opportunities to excel. They don’t need bells and whistles.

B-b-b-but Bush invited Intel Science Talent Search participants to the White House, too.
The Intel Talent Search is self described as “America’s oldest and most prestigious pre-college science competition — often considered the ‘junior Nobel Prize.’
“The competition encourages and rewards young scientists for the completion of an original research project and inspires them to pursue science in their secondary education and careers.
“An American institution, each year it heralds promise for our nation’s future.”
Finalists were invited to the reception for winners of the National Medal of Science.
According to one attendee:
They entered the White House through the front door (most visitors come in through a different entrance).
They had their picture taken with President Bush, and he spoke with them. He encouraged them to pursue their interest in science, congratulated them, and then shook hands with
everyone.
Afterwards, they saw the National Medals of Science and Technology awarded to their recipients, and President Bush recognized the students again during the ceremony.
Then, they were invited to the reception for the National Medal winners, and were allowed to eat in their choice of rooms such as the Green Room and Blue Room!
It was very cool!
Why does Obama always think he re-invented the wheel?

Shining a light on science, and particularly science achievements of the young is a good idea.
“Today’s announcement came hand-in-hand with the “Educate to Innovate” campaign launched by the White House to increase the importance of math and science education in the classroom: with an initial commitment by the private sector of more than $260 million.”
Even better when its coupled with some resources. Nice to see the private sector involved.

“B-b-b-but Bush invited Intel Science Talent Search participants to the White House, too.”
Kind of sad that you have to rely on a 2005 participant’s blog to find out about Bush recognizing these fine young people.
I also found a single photo of Bush congratulating the 2005 group as well as the 2006 group on the White House blog.

“Kind of sad that you have to rely on a 2005 participant’s blog to find out about Bush recognizing these fine young people.”
CNN reported on the visits but the press in general didn’t go wild over much of the beneficial programs the Bush administration promoted while in office.
Talk to the people in Africa. They loved Bush’s policies. Do you remember the CNN anchor getting schooled on Obama’s Ghana reception? He was gushing that it was unprecedented. The reporter in Ghana corrected him and said it was not “unprecedented”. Bush was given the same reception but that fact didn’t fit the left’s or CNN’s meme. (Some would say they are one in the same.)

Kind of sad that you have to rely on a 2005 participant’s blog to find out about Bush recognizing these fine young people.
I also found a single photo of Bush congratulating the 2005 group as well as the 2006 group on the White House blog.
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The difference would be that Obama has pushed the improvement of science and math all during the election and into the first part of his presidency.
He’s emphasized it repeatedly and made it a priority.

This should inspire more students to innovate and forego personal gain in the national interest , just like Nazis .

The Dept of Ed is the single most useless dept in the federal gov’t.
Liberals will spend millions to get one feel good story and ignore the thousands of students who failed in the programs.
Posted by: Mike_C | Nov 23, 2009 4:18:38 PM
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Republicans have been in power as often as Democrats – what are you saying, you’re completely incompetent in government – or you just didn’t care enough to do anything about education?
Whiny and wimpy at the same time.

This should inspire more students to innovate and forego personal gain in the national interest , just like Nazis .
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“Nazis”. Excellent, more right wing fear mongering. No wonder support for the Republican right is disappearing into nothing .. .

Yeah, but that “cool science” involves learning math, science terminology, concepts, formulas and other “boring” stuff that The One and others of the socially-conscious elitist class seemed to have passed on themselves.
But, it looks great on the tin!

“The value of an A in a class was turned upside down when we decided that we would give A’s to special ed kids who did less than 1/2 of the work of normal students.”
Wow just wow.

This is great. It’s about time we started recognizing scientific achievement in this country. The anti-science, anti-intellectual groups seem to get stronger and louder every year. We need to turn that around if we want any progress to happen at all.

This is great. It’s about time we started recognizing scientific achievement in this country. The anti-science, anti-intellectual groups seem to get stronger and louder every year. We need to turn that around if we want any progress to happen at all.
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I agree completely. The anti-science groups is demonstrated clearly by the ‘global warming is a hoax’ crowd funded by the oil industry.

Obama is correct. I have been saying this for years. Unfortunately engineers and scientists are not compensated enough to facilitate the desire to enter these very difficult fields.

Ryan_C,
WOw, just WOw tells me you have ZERO insight into the way education is really applied at the classroom level in this country now.
Time to wake up son and stop looking at the world thru your liberal glasses.
It is way past time to throw out ALL this BS that liberals have poisoned our education system with.
If your best is a ‘C’ in a class, so be it. We do not need EIPs and other make em feel good strategies to make a 12 yr old who is a ‘C’ stundent somehow think they got an ‘A’ by only doing 1/2 the work of the rest of the class.
Ryan, you may not like that approach, but when its carried all the way through HS and these graduate and hit the very, very competitve job market, this BS has done them NO good!

Do we know when the White House will host the annual science fair? How does a student winner secure an invitation?