Sunday, March 21, 2010
Science Fair Memories
This past Friday and Saturday I participated in the Central New Mexico Regional Middle and High School Science Fair. Boy did that THAT bring back memories. Unfortunately, science fair projects haven't improved since Allie first made an LED light up with a battery made from a lemon. This time though I talked to the student-exhibitors about jobs and let them look up different jobs and see how many there were, how the job market differed in different states, and how much different jobs paid. The point I was subtly trying to make was that there are a lot of great paying jobs in the computer industry, compared to things student sort of think they might like to do. My big part though, was as the keynote speaker at the awards ceremony where about 800 parents got to hear how great the technology job market is for students with 4 year degrees, and what they can/should do to help their kids prepare for those kinds of jobs. I had lots of great comments of appreciation afterwards from both parents and educators.
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you bet your sweet heine my kids (if they want) are gonna have some kick butt science projects- some that may or may not copy ones I did as a kid.
Even when we move out, we're sending our kids to you and Jane for a week to get their award winning science projects done.
Key-note speaker at a Science Fair? Awesome brother!
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