{"id":1115,"date":"2009-09-09T08:13:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T12:13:28","slug":"find-innovative-ways-to-inspire-and-educate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Find innovative ways to inspire and educate"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. has a good article in the Orlando Sentinel today <\/a>stressing the importance of education to our country’s future.<\/p>\n

President Obama has made an excellent start at refilling this crucial educational pipeline. He has tripled the number of National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships. He has ensured that a substantial portion of Recovery Act funding goes toward developing technologies that can jump-start a clean-jobs economy.<\/p>\n

And he has called for science, technology, engineering and mathematics education to be a priority in his “Race to the Top” initiative, which will provide billions of federal dollars to improve primary education.<\/p>\n

NASA will work with the Department of Education on this initiative, providing resources, content and expertise. NASA will continue its investments in providing research and flight opportunities to America’s students \u00e2\u20ac\u201d helping to develop and train our future workforce.<\/p>\n

We can continue to inspire the next generation of NASA scientists and engineers by holding more competitions to help high-school and college students turn their creative talents to exploring our planet, solar system and galaxy; ensuring more government scientists and engineers are mentoring and tutoring in classrooms; offering more incentives for private-sector innovators to add value to NASA’s special resources; and continuing to use our growing familiarity with space to understand and protect our home planet.<\/p>\n

It is crucial that America remains the world leader in science and technology. We must find innovative ways to inspire and educate the next generation of scientists and engineers or watch other nations assume our leadership role. The choice is ours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA administrator Charles F. Bolden Jr. has a good article in the Orlando Sentinel today stressing the importance of education to our country’s future. President Obama has made an excellent start at refilling this crucial educational pipeline. He has tripled … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-hZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":328,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=328","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":0},"title":"Space Week","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"November 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Science is a hands-on field of study. Kids need to do it to learn it. That's where Space Week comes in. Becoming the next generation of NASA astronauts was a goal on the minds of many of the 700 Brevard County sixth-graders who came out for the first day of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the Classroom"","block_context":{"text":"In the Classroom","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":620,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=620","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":1},"title":"A Good Week for Science","author":"Jonathan Smith","date":"June 25, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A third of a loaf is better than nothing. That's the feeling among the U.S. research community after the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday\u00c2\u00a0to boost the current budgets of four key science agencies by $337 million.\u00c2\u00a0 Arden Bement, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), applauding what he called\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 1 comment","block_context":{"text":"With 1 comment","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=620#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":856,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=856","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":2},"title":"Science quickies","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just some miscellaneous science news: > Mississippi is number two out of the gate in 2009 for antievolution nonsense. (Oklahoma was number one.) An act to require the state board of education to include certain language explaining that evolution is a theory in the inside front cover of certain pubilc\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=856#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1177,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1177","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":3},"title":"Way to go, Anthony!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Anthony Bass, a senior at Seminole Ridge Community High School, kicked some serious science essay butt when he won NASA's interplanetary Cassini Scientist for a Day essay competition ... for the second time! His sponsoring teacher, Erich Landstrom, sent me a letter that U.S. Congressman Thomas J. Rooney had written\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 2 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 2 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1177#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1357,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1357","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":4},"title":"Lots of science happening in Florida!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"-- Florida teacher wins 2011 Outstanding Biology Teacher Award from The National Association of Biology Teachers [Stephen M.] Anand teaches Advanced Biology and Honors Biology at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. ... He also coordinates a yearly Marine Research Development Trip to Key Largo for his students and has\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":278,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=278","url_meta":{"origin":1115,"position":5},"title":"Do candles burn in space?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Space shuttle Endeavour astronauts hung out with some kids in Orlando recently to talk about their experiences in space. They had a lot of good, educational things to say, and they, hopefully, motivated some kids to pay attention to their school work. Cmdr. Scott Kelly, a two-time space traveler with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "In the Classroom"","block_context":{"text":"In the Classroom","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?cat=2"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}