"Today, President Obama will host 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. That campaign aims to move American students from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math achievement over the next decade." (Find the announcement and a list of the exhibits that were on display HERE)
So President Obama has held good on his word to help restore science to the White House and America in general. In addition to the science fair held today, he has also named Dr. Subra Suresh as the new director of the National Science Foundation. An expert in nanotechonolgy and the Dean of the School of Engineering at MIT, Dr. Suresh is the first actual research scientist to hold this position in quite some time. Hurrah!
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