Obama Plugs Science, Math Education at Ceremony
Source: abcNEWS
Associated Press
President Barack Obama said Thursday that 19 scientists, researchers and innovators who received the country's highest honor for their life-changing work embody the spirit of the nation and its "sense that we push against limits and that we're not afraid to ask questions."
"When that spirit, that sense of possibility, is truly unleashed, then you get the remarkable men and women that you see here today," Obama said at a White House ceremony recognizing the newest recipients of the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
The recipients include researchers working on everything from DNA replication to personalized medicine.
Another honoree invented the tiny data storage device known as a thumb drive.
Obama used the event to plug math and science education, particularly for minority students. He announced that groups that have been trying to further his goal of getting 100,000 more math, science, engineering and technology teachers in schools are putting an additional $28 million toward the effort.
"We have to remind ourselves constantly that so much of what has set us apart economically, culturally, is our commitment to science," Obama said. "We have to continue to broaden opportunities for young scientists, especially girls and minority students, to enter into the field and we have to remind them of how exciting it is to be able to shape the world, unlock its secrets, make new stuff."
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Welp, this is SURE to irritate the RW'ers & Tea Partiers...
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But they're in their fifties and sixties and thus, too old and too expensive due to their experience.
My hubby used to be a project estimator and design glycol dehydrators. Too old and too expensive with a master's degree.
He got canned at the first workday of 1993. Why? Because Bill Clinton was coming into office, and as all conservative engineers know, the economy craters during Democratic administrations. 
