{"id":1181,"date":"2010-03-25T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2010-03-25T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:03:35","slug":"possibilities-seem-endless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Possibilities seem endless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our very own Florida Citizens for Science treasurer, Kathy Savage, was featured in an article<\/a> about a new program her high school is engaged in that promotes advanced science! Way to go, Kathy!<\/p>\n

This cutting edge program [Bioscience Technology Program of Emphasis], which will be implemented in the 2010-2011 school year, will provide students the opportunity to select from three new strands of study: bioscience, biotechnology or biomathematics.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Savage said, according to a recently published paper by the Florida Council of 100, Florida is behind the curve nationally.<\/p>\n

“Our state is pretty much near the bottom; I think we are second to last in science out of the 50 states,” she said. “We really have a lot of work to do, and our students are going to miss out if we don’t get them ready for these positions.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“They are really marketing this as a medical city, this whole I-4 corridor as being cutting edge, with biotechnology, science, simulations, computer and optics, all types of things in our area that people don’t know about,” Savage said. “We feel our kids in this area need to take advantage of that, or else it will be filled by people outside our state.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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