SIA Applauds White House Science Fair
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Washington, D.C. – October 18, 2010
– The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) today applauded President Obama for hosting the White House Science Fair celebrating the winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions.
The White House Science Fair fulfills a commitment the President made at the launch of his Educate to Innovate campaign in November 2009 to move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade. The White House Science Fair kicks off a week that culminates with the USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall and in 50 satellite locations, poised to engage more than a million people nationwide.
”The science students of today are the inventors of tomorrow,” said Brian Toohey, President of the SIA. “Recognizing students who excel in the sciences with a White House ceremony underscores the importance of nurturing the talent that will continue the advancement of technology for years to come.”
The Administration and leading companies are taking further steps to advance STEM education, which include expanding the tools of invention so that more students can directly be the “makers of things.” This includes efforts by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), an agency that has supported key technological breakthroughs, to place 3D printers in 1000 schools and an initiative by Autodesk to make new easy-to-use design tools freely available to students, and a viral video competition by leading Fortune 500 companies to show the rewarding jobs students can get if they achieve in math and science.
About SIA
The SIA is the voice of the U.S. semiconductor industry, America’s number-one export industry over the past five years. SIA seeks to continue U.S. leadership in this critical sector that employs 185,000 people in the U.S. and provides the enabling technology for America’s $1.1 trillion high-tech industries with a U.S. workforce of nearly 6 million people. More information about the SIA can be found atwww.sia-online.org. From 2006-2009, the combined spending by SIA member companies on K-12 programs was over $319 million. More than 300,000 teachers and over 14 million students have been reached by the initiatives our companies support.
The White House Science Fair fulfills a commitment the President made at the launch of his Educate to Innovate campaign in November 2009 to move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade. The White House Science Fair kicks off a week that culminates with the USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall and in 50 satellite locations, poised to engage more than a million people nationwide.
”The science students of today are the inventors of tomorrow,” said Brian Toohey, President of the SIA. “Recognizing students who excel in the sciences with a White House ceremony underscores the importance of nurturing the talent that will continue the advancement of technology for years to come.”
The Administration and leading companies are taking further steps to advance STEM education, which include expanding the tools of invention so that more students can directly be the “makers of things.” This includes efforts by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), an agency that has supported key technological breakthroughs, to place 3D printers in 1000 schools and an initiative by Autodesk to make new easy-to-use design tools freely available to students, and a viral video competition by leading Fortune 500 companies to show the rewarding jobs students can get if they achieve in math and science.
About SIA
The SIA is the voice of the U.S. semiconductor industry, America’s number-one export industry over the past five years. SIA seeks to continue U.S. leadership in this critical sector that employs 185,000 people in the U.S. and provides the enabling technology for America’s $1.1 trillion high-tech industries with a U.S. workforce of nearly 6 million people. More information about the SIA can be found atwww.sia-online.org. From 2006-2009, the combined spending by SIA member companies on K-12 programs was over $319 million. More than 300,000 teachers and over 14 million students have been reached by the initiatives our companies support.
The White House Science Fair fulfills a commitment the President made at the launch of his Educate to Innovate campaign in November 2009 to move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade. The White House Science Fair kicks off a week that culminates with the USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall and in 50 satellite locations, poised to engage more than a million people nationwide.
”The science students of today are the inventors of tomorrow,” said Brian Toohey, President of the SIA. “Recognizing students who excel in the sciences with a White House ceremony underscores the importance of nurturing the talent that will continue the advancement of technology for years to come.”
The Administration and leading companies are taking further steps to advance STEM education, which include expanding the tools of invention so that more students can directly be the “makers of things.” This includes efforts by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), an agency that has supported key technological breakthroughs, to place 3D printers in 1000 schools and an initiative by Autodesk to make new easy-to-use design tools freely available to students, and a viral video competition by leading Fortune 500 companies to show the rewarding jobs students can get if they achieve in math and science.
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