{"id":2669,"date":"2010-10-18T13:52:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2010-11-24T09:46:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T14:46:53","slug":"obama-hosts-science-fair-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/10\/obama-hosts-science-fair-at-white-house.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama hosts science fair at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2670\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2670\" href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/10\/obama-hosts-science-fair-at-white-house.html\/obama-by-mark-wilson-at-getty\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2670\" title=\"Obama (by Mark Wilson at Getty)\" src=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Obama-by-Mark-Wilson-at-Getty.jpg\" alt=\"Obama\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Mark Wilson at Getty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hooray science!\u00a0 That&#8217;s the message coming out of the White House today where President Barack Obama kicked off a week-long science fair at noon by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/eop\/ostp\/pressroom\/10182010\" target=\"_blank\">announcing winners<\/a> in a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competitions.\u00a0 Obama said, \u201cIf you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well,  if you&#8217;re a young person and you produce the best experiment or design,  the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that  achievement, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obama also announced steps his administration, in conjunction with leading companies, are taking to  advance STEM education.\u00a0 The focus is on expanding the tools of invention  so that more students can directly be the \u201cmakers of things.\u201d\u00a0 The steps include placing 3D printers in 1000 schools and an initiative by Autodesk to make  new easy-to-use design tools freely available to students.<\/p>\n<p>The President has long been an advocate for science and technology as essential to the country&#8217;s prosperity and success.\u00a0 His science adviser, Dr. John Holdren, even has pictures in his office of the President peering through telescopes, examining solar panels, and honoring scientists and engineers.\u00a0 And last October, the President held <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegovmonitor.com\/world_news\/united_states\/president-obama-to-host-astronomy-night-on-the-white-house-south-lawn-8704.html\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomy Night at the White House<\/a> where more than 20 telescopes were set up on the White House lawn and focused on various objects the invited students could observe.\u00a0 This is a refreshing change from the relatively <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portfolio.com\/views\/columns\/natural-selection\/2008\/01\/09\/The-Anti-Science-President\" target=\"_blank\">science hostile Bush administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly not least, Obama also announced he would be appearing on the December 8, 2010 episode of Discovery Channel\u2019s MythBusters.\u00a0 The show has been instrumental in making science fun and accessible to the general public, despite its incessant warnings to not try this it home.\u00a0 For one night, at least, the President will be the envy of geeks everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray science, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hooray science!\u00a0 That&#8217;s the message coming out of the White House today where President Barack Obama kicked off a week-long<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2010\/10\/obama-hosts-science-fair-at-white-house.html\" title=\"Read Obama hosts science fair at White House\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[26,23,24,25],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-madscience","category-politics","tag-mythbusters","tag-obama","tag-science","tag-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}