Transcripts For CSPAN Private Sector STEM Programs 20140120

How to get it assigned to me. I was the longestserving junior justice in history almost. I could get it assigned to me. Here is how. It breaks down forfour. How do i get it to me, which i certainly did not want. I said, i am not sure. They have to assign it to me. That will determine the outcome. I better be more certain than that. Nonetheless, he has to try to get the court, do it by the numbers, and that he has some discretion. Then we sit down, we write, i get my law clerk to write a long draft or memo, and then i will go read it. I will sit down and then write my draft. I often say, i know you think yours was better. In give mell go another draft, and i will probably do another draft. I was a law professor. I am picky. Then we go back and forth and get a draft and circulate it. I hope i pick up before you are more votes. If i do that, it is the opinion of the court. I am always willing to change, even when i have the majority. When i have the majority signed up, i am a little less willing. Nonetheless, somebody may write a dissent or concurrence. Eventually everyone either joined or writes his own. And the opinion comes out. It is mechanical. That plays a role. My name is alexis from juniata college. My question is in regards to your view on education. Last week, we discussed how approximately only two percent of the National Budget is spent on education. How do you feel about the amount of money that goes to Public Education and what you feel we could do to improve the Public Education system if we were allotted more money to do so . I declare my bias this is my fathers watch. Irving breyer, legal advisor, San Francisco unified 19331973. Rict, i grew up with the Public Schools. Obviously, i cannot think of anything more important. There are a lot of very good schools, and a lot that are not so good. Those that are not, i am really startled. Of course, i do not have the answer. When i listen to experts in the field, they say nobody really has the answer. The person who is the principal or the headmaster makes a difference. Experiment. See what works. That is what frank and roosevelt said. Try something. If it does not work, try something else. But of course we should. Places they many are. I cannot think of anything more important i would like to spend more money on. We know money alone does not do it but it does help. I tend to agree with where you are coming from. Good evening, my name is jeffrey from miamidade college. You mentioned the process in which you make decisions. Sometimes they are very challenging. Which kays have you decided on that was the most difficult . Another rule, nobody speaks twice until everybody speaks once. Another unwritten rule is tomorrow is another day. Court, youoth on the and i would have been the best allies on case one, but that has nothing to do with how we may be total enemies in case two. The fact that it is onto the next one means i do not go back and again on those two often. Occasion, but i have had some terrible times on difficult cases, but i tend to drive them out of my memory. There is one where i had to. Ecide something about kansas there was some kind of rule about Mental Illness in prisons and what they could do. I ended up thinking it was a. Iolation of the clause here is how the psychology works, and it will work the same way with you. You have a difficult decision to make. Not concern yourself. Who knows once our own ego gets into it. Not concerning yourself. I have asked businesspeople to make this decision. My goodness this is difficult. Then you go back and forth and decide. You decide. The next day, you thought it was difficult. Ityou think the next day, was so difficult, i should have decided differently . That was very difficult, but i am glad i decided the way i did. Two weeks after that, i am glad i decided the way i did. Two months after that, how right i was. That is how the human mind works. That is why it is tough for me to find one case. This willry to say have to be the last question. I am from quinnipiac university. Comesupreme Court Justice aware you have to make difficult decisions, what is it about the judicial system, where many people may see it as flawed or broken, that you love so much . It is a good job being a lawyer. Everybody has views on something. Being a lawyer or a judge, you have to bring your mind to work as well as your heart, both. You are helping individuals or you are helping communities, you are trying to be helpful, but in a particular way which requires thought. It is that combination of head and heart that i think makes law a great interest to people. As far as the courts are the primaryrobably characteristic is what i have said before, a rule of law. I get this question so often. We had a group of african judges faso, a group from , and a woman from ghana, who is the president of the Supreme Court asked the same question. Why do people do what you say . It is very hard to answer. You have to look at history, they do not always. Think of the history we have been through. , where youttle rock had a governor, in my lifetime, standing in the schoolhouse doors, saying those children will not come into this white school and integrate. And then you had a president called the 101st airborne out. They were the heroes of world children wereose taken into the school. And that was not the end of it. A year later they closed the school. But it began a series of things like the freedom marchers, Martin Luther king, and all sorts of things. What i say to people is do not talk to the lawyers. Do not confine your discussion of the rule of law to lawyers. Belief, to popular there are 310 million americans who are not lawyers. It is the fact that they support this rule of law that is the tremendous asset to our country. Go out to villages. Convince people why it is a desirable thing to have a group of judges who are human and can make mistakes decide things that will make a difference to your life and could be very unpopular. That is hard to do. But we have this asset in our country. Not perfect, but it is there. We participate in a system that can transmit that from generation to generation, and allow so many people to live together without killing each other. That is a wonderful thing. Which is probably that see as you can see, i feel this. It is probably that that i see as the major virtue of these courts, and it is the rule of law. Thank you all for your questions. Justice breyer, thank you very much. [applause] if you could, maybe indulge us a colleague of mr. Williams recommended that, justice, you might enjoy the opportunity in this situation to ask mr. Williams a question. [laughter] is usewhen you can do your influence. Can you keep the professional journalists at work in the Supreme Court . I certainly hope so. As one, i would like to continue doing it. The news media is changing rapidly. Where people get their information is changing so fast. I learned the other day, we have a website, nbcnews. Com. Most people find stories on that website not by going to it, but i what is passed along to them by their friends in social media , or what they find in a blog. What we find more and more is our audience is not coming to us , we have to go to our audience. Room, youou in this probably do not watch television or read a newspaper as much as Justice Breyer and i did when we were growing up. The news media are changing because of that. What we cover, government, the Supreme Court, is till tremendously important, still an enormous amount of interest. One last anecdote. When the Supreme Court decided blogcase, the website scotus got over a million hits that day. There is enormous interest in the court. It is a Great Institution to cover and i love every day that i am there. Tank you. Thank you. [applause] on behalf of the Washington Center, Edward Kennedy institute for the senate, students and faculty here, thank you for a wonderful evening. Appreciation,our a fashionable Washington Center back, guaranteed to hold many pounds of legal brief. [applause] thank you so much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] 4] we are looking live at the king memorial in washington, d. C. The park is open to the public 24 hours a day. Itself got started when the u. S. Congress passed a joint resolution in 1996 allowing out of five off of paternity to honor dr. King with the monument. We will continue to watch the scene for a few moments. As visitors continue to browse, we have recorded several events today focused on the holiday. President obama and the first family to work in a Service Project in the d c area. We will have that for you later on the cspan networks. The National Action network held its annual mlk day breakfast. Among the speakers, joe biden and al sharpton. Coverage coming up at five 40 5 p. M. Eastern. Later tonight, lawyer and philanthropist steve phillips, who helped to create the first super pack will be speaking at the city club of cleveland about changing demographics, race, politics, and the legacy of Martin Luther king. Here is a look. I want to get peoples attention. One way to do that is to be blessed about issues of race and at the city. Ist of why it gets attention because addressing race touches on deepseated fears and insecurities of how the country is changing. Fears about how a cherished way of life is pretty perceived to be disappearing. In fact, you cannot truly understand politics in America Today without appreciating the interplay between the demographic revolution and the efforts by too many demagogues in congress who whip up fear and stoke insecurity in an attempt to foment opposition to anything that is proposed by our African American commanderinchief. Let me close with the good news that you have nothing to fear. You know that people of color like good food. You know we make good music and culture. Turns out many of us are sociable and smart and share the same values. In fact, those of us who come from communities that have faced discrimination and oppression are actually often the most hopeful and idealistic of all. Speech, hes famous said even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, i still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the american dream. So if you are worried, put aside your fears and lets Work Together to build a better america. If you are a progressive white, your time has finally come. As my friend van jones said about blacks to not vote, greens do not win. Watch the entire Program Starting at 8 00 eastern right here on cspan. Because i know, truthfully, that every single problem in better if moree people could read, write, and comprehend. We would be able to compete with the rest of the world. We would not have these children ,ho are committing crimes because their families do not have jobs, they do not have jobs because they cannot read. They cannot write. They do not understand. Every thinking american is coming to that conclusion. We have got to educate our children, and we have to educate their parents. , it is a just a whim necessity, if we are going to compete in this world. First lady barbara bush, tonight at 9 00 eastern on c span and cspan three, and c span radio and www. Cspan. Org. Next, a house subcommittee hearing looking at Stem Education initiatives conducted by the private sector and universities. Stem education includes the academic fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They first heard from directors the firstorg, organization to hold robotics competitions. They also heard from a panel of High School Students who took part in the program. This is about two hours 45 minutes. Subcommittee on research and technology will come to order. Good morning, everyone, welcome to todays hearing titled private sector programs that engage students in stem, which we all know is an important subject. In front of your packets containing the written testimony, biography, and disclosures for todays witnesses. I now recognize myself for five minutes for an opening statement. I am happy to call to order the First Research and subcommittee Technology Hearing of the new year. Today we learn about private sector initiatives in science, technology, engineering, and Mathematics Education and how these companies, businesses, and organizations engage students in these important yields. A report released by the National Science board in 2012 indicates the science and engineering workforce historically grows faster than the total workforce. Although the cited in sharing growth rate has maintained a higher rate than the total workforce in the last decade has seen much lower growth. In one of the most essential atects to keeping america the forefront of Stem Education advancement and development is engaging students at a young age and keeping them interested in pursuing stem degrees and careers. As a cardiothoracic surgeon and father of four children, i understand such programs and activities are necessary to enhance americas Economic Growth and competitiveness. With a federal Government Spending nearly 3 billion across 13 federal agencies on Stem Education programs each year, we must ensure government is leveraging rather than duplicating private sector Stem Education initiatives. Our hearing today will provide a unique opportunity for our first Panel Witnesses to discuss the innovative projects and programs their privatet sector businesses and educational institutions, and for the second panel of witnesses, to discuss their personal experiences with these types of initiatives. I look forward to hearing from all of our witnesses and i want to thank them for their participation and offering their time and insight in private sector success in Stem Education. At this point, i recognize the Ranking Member, the dutchman from illinois, for five minutes. Thank you. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. One of the reasons i have joined this committee, my first in congress, was because i have a strong interest in working to improve math and Science Education in this country. I am one of only a dozen engineers in the house and was a mathmy wife major in college. Unlike me, her stem training let her directly into a career actuary. For my own Family Experience and what i have seen and heard from others, i am aware of how important it is we do a good job engaging and educating students at all levels in stem fields. But with the release last month of the latest results, we were reminded of the troubling statistics on the state of u. S. Math and Science Education. Rank in theudents middle of the pack in International Comparisons of math and science aptitude. We see the problems at all job levels. I am constantly hearing from Manufacturing Companies in my district that they have a hard time finding employees who have even basic math and science skills. In higher education, we have far too few students are suing degrees in certain stem fields to meet the needs of domestic industry. For example, less than 2. 4 of College Students redolent with a degree in commuter science, despite tremendous demand for these skills. That number has dropped over the last decade. Our trouble start from the earliest grades and are part of a negative feedback cycle that we have to break. Students who are not learned the necessary skills by the time they graduate high school are much less likely to pursue and succeed in stem fields in college. When they lose an undergraduate student from a stem field, we lose a scientist or engineer who can potentially pursue a career teaching the next generation. We know these to become sex problems. There is no easy or onesize fitsall solution. That is why partnerships during the private sector, federal and state government, colleges, universities, local school district, national labs, science museums, zoos and aquariums, and all types of nonprofits, are more important today than ever. The u. S. Still has some of the best k12 schools, colleges, universities in the world. Our top students at all levels compete easily with the top students from around the world. That is why i am glad we are Witnesses Today who can speak to the types of partnerships needed to engage young minds at an early age and keep them engaged in stem fields. Northwestern, universitys office of Stem Education partnerships and x k 12 teachers and students to worldclass resources of Northwestern University. To corporations across the state such as hewlettpackard, ibm, and more. Especially proud as a graduate of northwestern with my degree in Mechanical Engineering. Ontodays hearing, we focus private sector and University Stem engagement programs. I look forward to hearing from these a compass individuals who have dedicated their careers to improving stem engagement and learning in their communities across the district. Across the nation. I also look forward to hearing from students who participated in the first robotics competition. I also want to say a few words about the federal role in this partnership. Investsral government 3 billion in Stem Education across 14 agencies. While that is a large dollar figure, it is important to put that number in perspective. Less than half of that is focused at the k 12 level. Federal investment in k12 education overall account for only 10 of total u. S. Funding education, and the total for stem funding this year is likely to be less than 10 . So the federal role is limited but it is also unique and necessary. The National Science foundation is a single most important research, development, and testing of Innovative New foror Stem Education Stem Education. The federal government also has an unrivaled ability to convene stakeholders to live rich private Sector Investment in education. Entrepreneurs did not have to start from scratch. They are smart businessman investing in, perfecting in, and expanding programs. While the federal government cannot begin to solve our Stem Education challenges alone, we would be remiss to note the Important Role the government does play. I hope that we can ensure we get the most out of our relatively small but critical federal Stem Education programs. I want to thank the chairman for calling this hearing and the witnesses as well for taking time today to offer their insights and experiences. With that, i yield back. Thank you. I now recognize the chairman of the full committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. Smith. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Let me comment on the atmosphere i ran into when i enter the room before the hearing officially began and the gavel came down. Atmosphere unlike almost any other hearing i have walked into. The atmosphere was almost festive. People were excited because they were interested in the subject. We are excited also about what we will hear from our Witnesses Today. In the case of both panels. But this is a subject that fascinates us, i think, and we all realize it is absolutely key to the future prosperity of this country. It was fun to walk into that kind of environment. Achieverman, to innovations of tomorrow, we must better educate American Students today. The federal government spends nearly 3 billion each year on science, technology, engineering, and math education activities. These programs are found primarily at the National Science foundation and the department of education. Today we will hear from leaders and experts from private sector organizations that focus on engaging students and Stem Education. Two were established for this express purpose. We need to learn what is taking place outside of the federal government so that we can be sure we are not spending taxpayer dollars on duplicate it programs. And we need to make sure we more effectively use taxpayer dollars to gain the most benefit for our students and country. It is critical to understand what is working and how we can build on that success. The leaders of these organizations and the student participants here today are in a good position to provide useful information. Theml educated and trained workforce will promote our future Economic Prosperity but we must persuade our nations youth to study science and engineering so they will want to pursue these careers. Great strides are being made in Stem Education by the organizations represented here and byfirst, encode. Org, institutions like Northwestern University. Unfortunately, american student still lag students of other nations when it comes to Stem Education. Merrick and students, according to one poll, ranked 26th in math, 21st in science. This is not the record of a country that expects to remain a world leader. We need to ensure that young adults have a scientific and mathematic skills to strive and thrive in a technologybased economy. You cannot have innovation without advances in technology. Stand students of today will lead us to the cutting Edge Technologies of tomorrow. The students participating in our second panel are proof that a Stem Education can prepare our next generation of scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and the leaders. Thank you and i look forward to hearing from the Witnesses Today. I now recognize the Ranking Member, the gentlelady from texas, ms. Johnson, for her opening statement. Thank you, mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing. I want to start by asking all the students present to stand. I want to congratulate you. , that byy impressed your leadership and your accomplishments, that you should be very proud. You will be our leaders of tomorrow. Thank you for standing. Unfortunately, too many students across the country do not have the opportunities to participate inan expiry stan inspiring stem activities, or receive a quality education. We are settling for the middle of the pack in the latest test of science and math proficiency. I had a long as it are visit last night with the minister from japan. We can no longer depend on our top few percent to maintain a community brant economy. Ber Competitive Edge will lost if we do not vastly improve education for all students. We know this is a complex challenge that no entity can solve alone. There is no silver bullet, and there is a role for all of the key stakeholders, today we hear from two entrepreneurs and to education leaders from Stem Education. Time tothem for taking provide their insight to this committee today. I want to emphasize the of improving Stem Education. Many federal stem programs, including those supported by the National Science foundation and the department of education are making a difference in education in university, colleges, and k12 route the donation throughout the nation. There are also many valuable rug is being funded through other federal science agency, such as nasa, noaa, and the department of energy. Work withcies thousands of scientists and engineers who can make a difference in their own communities for students across the country. Professionals, the reallife work that the use dual using stem is inspiring. Federal is more than that, the National Foundation Science Foundation is a premier Research Organization in the country, but again its has been a leader in inspiring programs in and out of the classroom. They are looking for proven programs with proven outcomes. Foundation, science more than any other organization is responsible for building that evidence base. Wille this committee continue to exercise this responsibility to conduct edgy t in other agencies and stem programs. Today i look forward from hearing from the expert on the panel about this program, and how about how we imagine the impact. Measure the i also look forward to hearing from the students about what initially sparked their interest instead of and what role teachers, parents, and other mentors have played in helping them to reach their goals. I think all of you for being here today to share this experience. I want to see the United States moved from 26 to one. When i came here 20 years ago, we were number 18, we are going backwards. We have to meet the challenge. Thank you. Thank you. Sh there are members that wi to submit additional statements, your statements will be added to the record at this point. I will introduce our panel of witnesses. I first witness is mr. Dean , the founder for inspiration and recognition of science and technology, otherwise known as first. The founder and president of Research Deck a corporation. Our second witness is mr. Per pervoti, he was on the founding teams of dropbox. He is a graduate of harvard. Is dr. Jonah. Ess is a professor of learning sciences and greater size at Northwestern University. Dr. Jonah holds a phd from northwestern, and a bs in Computer Science from wisconsin madison. Is dr. Philipness korbel, Vice President for Academic Affairs and it professor of Mechanical Engineering at the roseville institute of technology in terre haute. He received his and made in three from friends and his ma and phd from princeton. Recognize mr. Kamen for five minutes to present his testimony. This is the super bowl. The super bowl look smart. N, is kids having fu competing, working together to dream up and design robots. Im using power tools. Theyre having the greatest love they will ever have, and they are becoming our next generation of engineers and innovators. For inspiration and recognition inside the technology, this is some of the greatest influences on my life. They got me to understand that i can do anything i put my mind to. First mentors are changing kids lives everyday. Professional engineers, teachers, parents, aiming up with young people not just to build robots, but to build confidence and self respect. Im around people i can get along with, talk computer lingo with. Dean saw that they would look sportssports stars heroes and sports stars. The same way Shaquille Oneal inspired thousands to spend weeks bouncing a ball. Stand sidebyside with athletes and entertainers as role models, and hear the white house we are going to lead by example. We are going to show young people how cool science can be. Kids aged six to 18 compete at all different levels. Challenge. Ech at the high school level, the robotics competition. The only difference between this sport and all the others is every kid out our team can turn pro. There is a job out here for everyone of these kids. Firstdent to take part in are 50 more likely to go to college, and twice as likely to major in science or injured you. I definitely want to do engineering. Once they taste the power of knowledge for that it can be fun and rewarding, they wont go back. Theres no doubt, first works. 10 or 20 years from today, some kid in those stands will have cured alzheimers, aids, cancer, or build an engine that doesnt pollute. Look at these kids, they are the future. I can go and do anything i want to do because of this program. Time tone took the guide and inspire me, it changed my life. Take some time. You have to do it, the voice of god tells you. [laughter] thank you. Thank you Ranking Member lipinski of and thank you Ranking Member johnson. Each one of you has made comments that make this seem like it will be really easy. I think everybody understands the problem, everybody understands the importance of reinvigorating the entire generation of American Kids to be leaders in the world in science and tech. You, ihis is unusual for do not know much about washington, but everybody comes here asking for something. I am not asking you for anything for me and my company, and as the founder first, im not asking for anything for first. 3500 corporate sponsors now. First has 160 universities that are desperate to help these kids get in the system. We will have more this year. Them,ot asking you for but there are a few tens of millions of kids in this country that do not have access to first. They are not capable of leveraging what these 3500 corporate sponsors, that are donating 120,000 worldclass scientists and engineers, you people, they do it because they care, because they are serious adults come and professionals, and parents. They know that we have to endure great kids to do Something Like this. Invigorate kids to do Something Like this. Im here to ask you to figure out how to first available in all of these schools. And by doing that, you will be able to leverage what first has put together over the last 25 years. I think it will be a winner for everybody. My little red light is on, so i guess i have to shut up. [laughter] thank you. I now recognize mr. Partovi for his testimony. Thank you very much. To Program Early when i was young, and i studied Computer Science at harvard. I setup up my career with an early job at microsoft. Sorry. I will start again. I learned to program gone young, and i set up my career with an early job of microsoft. It was an early investor in some of those early startups. Starting successful, im now living the american dream, and it is because of my foundation incubator science. This fuels the american dream. Im not here to testify on behalf of the organization i theded, but in support of field, and support of Computer Science. 90 of our schools do not teach Computer Science. Toent to play a short video show why this is important. A software and computers, used to be that that was a separate area of the world, but now touches everything you use. There is more phones and tablets and laptops and website and everybody is on social media. It is all of these different things, and every thing is moving faster. In a position to kind of understand that language that is going to be there in the future. I think it is a good thing to do. And is absolutely crucial to understand how technology is built, even if you do not choose how to to make a living or vacate. Make a living or be a full time developer. Ed influences everything from how you do your purchases, to how you eat, to how you do anything, so it is important know how it works so you are not a victim of other peoples is choices. It is important for these kids, starting at eight years old when to be a citizen on this lannett. Whatever country youre from, to read and write code. If you wait until youre an adult, you will never do it. It would be like not learning how to read. The future would be closed. When i think about what we are going to be teaching in schools 10 years from now, i science,t greater basic programming is going to be n ability to do a basic writing. People wonder why took so long. My Organization Must goal is goal is toizations get Computer Science into every school. What i would to school, were all taught how to dissect a frog. In the 21st century is equally important to learn how to dissect an app, or how the internet works. This is not only fundamental to millions of careers in technology, but even for students who do not want to pursue a career in technology allow for people who want to become doctors, lawyers, or counted, or elected officials. It is important to understand how the world around us works. The bureau of labor statistics for that 1. 4 million jobs will be created in this field. That adds up to a million gaps in the jobs of the students, which adds up to 500 billion in salaries. These jobs there in every state and every industry. This is not about google or microsoft having trouble hiring workers, they are in banking, retail, etc. Youchart on the left shows the amount of time High School Students spend in all of step, and the small sliver that is Computer Science. The chart on the right shows all the jobs in stem, and a giant segment that is Computer Science. Their mismatch because 90 of our schools do not even the teach this field. Study tiny sliver that do the bitter side but only seven percent are girls. It is a huge problem for our country. In 3350 states, Computer Science does not even count or high school requirements. Mentionedey you stem,stemmed spent on it is only a fraction of it. People often asked us these questions. In partnership with 100 companies, google, microsoft, apple, the college board, and many others, we had 20 Million Students participate with 70 million in the United States. One out of every four students in the u. S. Schools learned our of code and half of them were girls. It is an amazing acknowledgment. Andpublished as it is ago the smith an amazing accomplishment,. It goes to show that our kids can learn this. We have proven that america wants this, our students with this, and our parents and this, not just code, Computer Science. The question for use, how do you answer the parent who asks why is this foundational field being taught in my childrens schools, and how can the u. S. Government remove the barriers that get in the way right now . I have a very short video to girls that came back after learning one hour of code. What is it . Its cool. I love it. Fun . Coding super yes. Do you want to learn . Every kid in america can learn Computer Science, 90 of our schools do not teach it, we can fix this. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning members of the committee, i would like to thank Ranking Members lapinski and johnson and chairman bucshon and smith. Is tossion of my Office Connect teachers and students to the resources of Northwestern University and beyond. We work with over 200 chicago area school, over 600 teachers who reached thousands of students, and Chicago Public goals is launching the Computer Science tricked him for all the high schools. My testimony focuses on three models that we have found successful in engaging in history partners in stem initiatives. Represent theples important of building both scalability and sustainability. We are fortunate to work with many industry partners, including boeing, hewlett packard, ibm, motorola, and siemens. Likeirst example i would to share today is our work with a Global Health care Company Located outside of chicago. Their generous support has created a Biotechnology Center of excellence at the math academy, which is a grade seven third 12 Public School okayed it on the southwest side of chicago that it serves a prior dominantly minority and low income student population. The center of excellence invites teacher with emotional development, lab equipment, and other resources focused on the foreign field of biotechnology. These are provided not only to the teachers, but to teachers across the district. In the last few years we have trained one hundred 68 teachers from 150 different schools for reaching over 20,000 students. Of excellence model is building a selfsustaining capacity in the Chicago Public theols to it improved teaching across the district. An innovative set of files you labs we developed in our medical school. These labs are based on her research. The center of excellence model does raise the power partnerships between the private sector, and Public Schools. The federal nih dollars dividends, asay hundreds of teachers and thousands of students each year an event to the ongoing support provided by baxter. The second example i would like to share with you today is called the illinois pathways. This is a state of illinois led Stem Education aged the that has created new public privet are to shift known as Stem Learning exchanges. Each of the nonexchanges chordates resources and planning in sectors like information technology, manufacturing, Technology Research and develop it. This effort was launched with 2. 39 in federal raise money for which was then leveraged to 8. 5 million and public and private matching donors. This is been a key driver of this initiative in the state. Northwestern is a proud member of the research and development a learning exchange. One of our signature projects is a mentor matching initiative. This Online Initiative pairs students with private mentors to conduct research in the stem fields. It is like a match. Com for student researchers. I connecting mentors and students online, this website helps to level the Playing Field by facilitating access to mentors for students all across the state but especially in our rural and urban areas. Beentem exchanges have instrument led organizing previously uncoordinated ravin or university and School Participation in stem, and they serve as a white dissertation platforms for Stem Education resources. The third and final example i would like to share is our out of School Program called fuse. It is a project ended by the Macarthur Foundation and the National Science foundation as well as committees can including motorola, siemens, and ibm. The goal is to engage you, especially those from underrepresented groups, in topics, while fostering the velvet of important 21stcentury skills, like rate of problem solving, percent, ingrid like een of problem solving likes creative problemsolving, persistence, and grit. I now have a short video i would like to show you. Has many areas in design. Andses all of the design three pretty printing skills you would need for advanced manufacturing. Platform thatr can be scaled up to engage large rivers of youth in stem or steam fields. Our industry partners, the modular challenge or might you see here, and out of school time learning is often more appealing than in school griffith curriculum involvement. New challenges are offered to you in our growing network of 17 site around the chicago metro area. Messageup, my teams today is what has been missing is a recognition of the importance of creating robust dissemination methods. Theods that can support scalability of the stated mission of the scalability and sustainability of our mission. Introduce students to the highquality education, we need to have the support of all of the adderall and state the federal and state platform. Ofate the similar types distribution platforms that i have highlighted today. Thank you. Thank you. I recognize dr. Cornel for his testimony. Chairman smith, Ranking Member lapinski and johnson, thank you for inviting me today. I am the Vice President for Academic Affairs, and every and a will and june Mechanical Engineering professor. Basically, engineering programs at schools that do not offer a phd. We have about 2200 students, which makes this a skull school but i did size college of engineering makes this a small school, but a mid size college of engineering rated r average starting salary is about 67,000, and the mission of rose coleman is to provide our students with the best environment of individual attention and support. We hire faculty members who have a passion for the technical field, but also a passion for students and undergraduate education. Our goal is to graduate technically grounded, outstanding professionals. We do have a number of outreach activities i wanted to share with you. One of our most successful is called operation catapult. That is a threeweek summer program. They come to campus and live on campus, and one of the important cavies they do is work on ethical roger that has the faculty as the mentor is work on a technical project has a faculty member as a mentor. It is a great way of solidifying their interest in stem. Called have a Program Homework hotline, which has been around since 1991. Basically what that is is a math and science tutoring program. Through in grades six 12, the basic idea is that the students have problem with math and science Program Homework. They can call our students where tutors,e available as and help them understand the material. Hulmanolding rose ventures have student interns that work under the supervision of a professional project manager, with Client Companies on projects that are important to the company. , itould be a coding project could be developing a prototype of a could be developing a product. It is something that is important to the client, and they pay time and materials. Copies range from small startups twoarge cover these Large Companies like alcoa. We need more stem professionals in the United States. We need to increase the pipeline, the number of students interested in stem, but we also need to graduate more of those students from college. As far as the pipelines about programs like first robotics, they do a fantastic job of energizing students, helping students see engineering, Computer Science as a possible career option. It that is absolutely critical, but i also think it is equally important to strengthen our math, science, and Computer Science programs in high school, so when they are in college, they are prepared to be successful in the rigorous curriculum required for those majors. Far as retention and graduation rates, if we look at the student that currently Enter College with an engineering interest, less than 50 graduate. 80 . School, it is if we could increase that number by just 10 , if i did my calculations correct, that means within six years we could graduate 100,000 additional engineers. How do we do that . Theres a lot of research on the topic. Some things that i think are important is the early election up to vince to the discipline. Connection of students to the discipline. It is frustrating to have a really smart to drop out of engineering, and it is because they do not like it, but they have not had any real engineering. Faculty need to have their first as teachingriority the students to be successful. Undergraduate research and interjects our important for retention and graduation rates. Continue to support undergraduate research, that is critical. Incentivize companies to offer early internships. For of his offer interjects juniors and possibly sophomores, because they consider that a medical part of their recruitment. It is most harder for students get a meaningful interest freshman. That study stem, loanerhaps give them lower rates. These didnt want a good industry, graduate school, these students want to go to industry, graduate school, professional school. I applaud this committee at taking the leadership role in promoting Stem Research as well in Stem Education. Thank you for letting me testify. I would like to thank all the witnesses for their testimony. I want your remind members of limit questions to five minutes. I recognize myself for five minutes. As cosponsor of the computer Science Education act of i share many of the concerns you do. Im quite least that my home state is one that allows a rigorous Computer Science course to satisfy high school credit. Open computing60 size jobs in indiana right now. According to your analytics, to understood the 4000 indiana students did the hour of code in december of 2013. The nextou see as steps for those students can if they want to pursue studying Computer Science . Thank you. Find 70astonished to Million Students in this country during the hour of code. We were prepared to offer more than one hour in terms of instruction. The one hour was enough to demystify the field for care that teachers, as something that anybody could learn. Had a following chimeric curriculum that could be taught. Over 10,000 classrooms are teaching a full Computer Science class to almost 100,000 students. But this into context, and that in october, in one month we have doubled in terms of the students study the that studying it in terms of students studying at but because of the one hour of code. It is in extremely popular topic with students and teachers. ,he field of Computer Science to remove the federal government our ears barriers that prevented from study to other Public Schools. What to differentiate your program of other stem initiatives. You have been very successful, and why do you think it has been successful . What principles and techniques used in your programs would you suggest to apply to the federal Stem Education programs . Primary reason we have been successful is that premise right up front that 25 years ago the world of arabs and politicians and government that we had an education crisis. We have a lot of great teachers, i am an inventor. I look at problems, and see them differently. My mom is probably request you always is, we do not have an education crisis, we have a culture crisis. We get the best of what we celebrate in the country. Surgeons that are willing to commit themselves to public service, america is built on people willing to get together and solve a problem. Our problem is that we have such a passion and art coach or because we have become rich, that we can spend time on leisure, and we have made superheroes in two. Hollywood, and sports. Women and minorities are sucked into spending their time until they are 18 or 19 developing skill sets that are not likely to lead to great jobs. I said lets get those industries that need these people, get these worldclass Tech Companies together. Lets let them create , lets let the private sector solve the cultural problem. You get the best of what you celebrate. Lets start celebrate science and technology. Chairman smith said it was the best of a festive asked his dear a festive atmosphere in here. And i High School Gym in manchester we had 23 teams they came to the one event and it was over. With 55 compound annual growth, now we have 25 20,000 schools around the world, and our march madness starts the first weekend in march. We have more than 60 cities around the United States holding spectacularly large events throughout march. Theres one year that every one of you has a school in your district that is involved with first. Does we get the best of what we celebrate by would not be hard finals. E you to the you need to go to these events in your state and support these kids. It is a lot of fun, bring your own kids and grandkids. You will see what happens when kids develop selfconfidence and become aware that they can do the kinds of things that will lead to great careers. I will also invite you to our championship on april 25 and 26 under the arch of st. Louis. We will fill and 76,000 seat arena. We succeeded because we have industry behind us. They want these kids to become worldclass scientists and engineers, and inventors. Theucceeded because it is or. I was told 25 years ago that you will never. Because youre going to run out of giant companies that can support all of the schools. I thought that was my biggest problem. Delivering,ies keep they are mentors, scientists, engineers. The staggering thing to me is that the school just needs to the same math teacher stipend as you give the football coach. They have a 100 year history of figuring out how to fund those programs. To make sure that under Advantage Schools can take advantage of first, that is what we need to do. Fore recognize mr. Lapinski five minutes. Thank you. Exciting to hear a lot of these inventor going on. I know that more needs to be done. Jonah a to ask dr. Little bit about what you have , what yourthwestern have in your written testimony. Face, especially with this issue, we are people come in and talk about the great things that they are doing, and how do we expand this and replicat it . With what you have done in the northwestern area. What challenges have you faced in growing the office of Stem Education partnership, and what lessons can be taken by other institutions who want to establish something similar . Thank you. The work that we do with our faculty, and would be similarly done in other institutions is largely funded by tax requirements. While this is an incredibly helpful requirement and stream of funding, there really is never enough of those funds to go around. We are living on the margins, if you will. Like to see i would is an ih, and other stem Mission Agencies adopting similar requirements and funding streams to broaden out that will. Includes atestimony number of recommendations for strengthening and expanding and nsfss and sfs partnership. Are there any other things we can do about northwestern is in a unique position as part of a large urban area. Other things of the federal government could do to help, or suggestions you have for other schools that may not be in the position northwestern is in . I feel very strongly that the federal government could play an Important Role in providing seed funding for offices like mine, especially at smaller institutions or rural institutions, to help them get jobs guarded and off the ground. Another Important Role would be to support a National Network of so weofficers offices, could begin to support each other, and share best practices that we have developed over time with the smaller and newer offices. This network could then serve as a National Distribution network for facilitating the broader dissemination of federally funded stem resources that are developed at any of our institution. Other questions that i can to mr. I wanted to go partovi, about the things youre done with the hour of code. You put up there a very stark comparison of how many jobs there would be and how few students will be coming out of college for those jobs very it is a for those jobs. Maybe because i was an engineer, we are always looking at where the jobs were supposed to be. Maybe directing and giving us a sense of where to go. Why is that not happening volcke . Is adjusted in saying it is not the thing i can do, or im not interested in . To is there this response job demand that will continue to be out there . Thank you. People having got trouble realizing is that we have a crisis of not having enough stem professionals in the country. Most them filled stem fields have too many graduates. There are more graduate didnt engineering jobs. There are way more Computer Science jobs in Computer Science graduates. If you look at students decisions, by the time they get to college, they have decided their passion. If they are in one of the 90 of schools that do not teach Computer Science, they do not have any background to think that i can do this. The way to solve the problem is not just building awareness, they know that if they could be the next Mark Zuckerberg, that would be amazing. That is the new american dream, the problem is they do not think they can do because high school it. Ot expose them to thank you. We have gotten a lot of good advice today that we ought to take to heart. Dr. Cornwell mentioned the component that should strengthen our curriculum. Dr. Jonah talked about supporting our stem students outside the classroom. Discussed the various that we have with regulation, and i want to go back to that, that the students do not learn Computer Science, and what is taught and what is needed in the jobs. Has talked about encouraging students the robotics. You have my first question. You mentioned at the end of your testimony, part of this came from your mother who was a teacher. It we need to change our culture and celebrate some of the subject. Expound a little but on that on how we might do that in a practical way. As i said, one of the things that makes america great, we all brag about it, it is a land of opportunity. If you are not searching for the right opportunity, youre not going to find it. We have celebrated almost two of session almost two of obsession, other things, so the they do not come in aware of greater science. Computer science. Become good go and at things that we know realistically that there are no jobs. We are going to convince kids are celebrating science and technology, all caps will realize they can do this. As a said before, we have succeeded eerie and courage you all to go to one of our bed and celebrate with these kids area we have 89. 6 of the kids that come through art [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] our fields go on to new jobs. The systems lack the resources. , you mentioned a few bit ago about the regulatory burdens. I think i know the problem. In the definition of core academic subjects, theres is no mention of Computer Science. That definition of Court Economic subjects is out of date core academic subjects is out of date. There is a recordation on the books to change the definition. That bill that has been , iponsored by our chairman will be adding to my name. If members of the Committee Want to know what the guy about know what they can do about it to bring greater attention to Computer Science, one answer is to support that particular these of legislation. Thank you for calling that to our attention. Let me ask all of the catalyst panelists, we all know what we need to teach, what should we be doing about how we teach . With dr. Cornwell. For me, one of the keys to teaching engineering and Computer Science is engagement in the material. 30 seconds . Exciting, is flipped classroom. If there is a path of portion of if there is a passive portion of the class, but that online, make the class much more projectbased. Engaging students in the material is really critical even though you need that lecture majuro. Even though you still need that lecture material, engage them. I would take a little bit of issue with mr. Kamens assertion that stem is too difficult. The problem is that it is too risky for people to do in school. If you took his program and tried to put it in schools, kids would be failing all of the time because the only way to succeed is to try and learn from your mistakes. That is not an environment in school where an assessment is so predominant. Theirre so worried about gpa than to take a risk. Making it more fun. Tutorial, that features anger berg angry birds. They do not know that they are learning, they are playing. I entirely agree, you have to make it fun, you have to make it rewarding, your to show them superstars that they can aspire to be like. That is what drives kids to put passion two things in this country. Have to get kids about passion about science and technology. It is fun, available, rewarding, and a great career. Yesterday this from a ceo of a deck tech company. There are those that are worried that it is too difficult. Toically allowing students progress at their own pace. If they are not keeping up with the class, they are not discouraged from keeping up taking the subjects. I recognize mr. Kilmer for five minutes. Thank you for being here. This is a very important conversation. Caree 24,002 reasons to about this. 24,000 open computing jobs right now, and two little girls. Sophies newest passion is the code will hopscotch apps on the ipad, which teach coding concepts. She totally geeks out on it. On the 24,000, i would start with mr. Partovi and invite others to chime in. Be more direct it to us. Of mentioned the potential having the government promote distribution platforms, are there other things that congress ought to do to step up . Not to just fill the 24,000 jobs in our stay, but to ensure we have a workforce of the next generation . Absolutely. The core issue in Computer Science that is driving these jobs is the high school pipeline. The reason this bill is a no brainer, and only removes barriers, does not increase funding. That, iant to go beyond would not say to increase theing, but look at existing 3 billion in stem funding, or the existing 1. 5 12llion in k through funding. Funding, it means biology, chemistry, physics, environmental sciences, and calculus. They do not even think of Computer Science as a stem topic. We all think of stem as robotics, engineering, Computer Science, coding, that is not what our schools think. The stem funding you are dividing, billions of it is not going where the jobs are. Other suggestions for congress . I will give you suggestions. I know that the two sides of congress seem to be polarized on lots of issues. I can tell you from my day job, i have 500 engineers, wheeler on projects for big movies we work on lots of projects for a companies. Big we have 30 openings, we cannot find tech people, like the rest of these people. I have people here on visas, it cost me a lot of time to acquire these people. We are happy to pay the money, because they are so valuable. I would rather give the jobs to homegrown people. We have a bill going through seose going to increase the people to Tech Companies. It would be easier to swallow to to knowwallow it that that money is going to be used to solve the problem. Money, what some of it aside to solve the problem, so we do not have the keep doing it this way. I would suggest that if you take some of that money and make it available to these schools, and they can internally leverage all of the things you have just time about, the amount of and money it would take to internally build a Robotics Program to bring in worldclass scientists and engineers, you cannot do it, you do not need to do it. Theyre there, they are free. Let the schools leverage these programs by just giving them the stipend for the coach. Figure out how to focus that money on the schools that even most. Ed it the ofn way more supportive these fees if it would solve the problem. You mentioned, the failure to see adequate representation of women and minorities in the stem fields. How do you think the federal government is doing in terms of some of its programs to broaden diversity in the stem fields . Can you give direction, whether it be through nsf programs, or others to raise our game . Not aboutshowed was stem, was just about Computer Science, because that is my focus. Interests are slightly different. Females in our culture think it is not for them. Africannute american, it is the availability the schools do not teach it. That is the bigger problem for you guys to work on. The fact that we had 10 Million Girls learning in our code last month, that is going to start of a trickle of that, and were good to do not year after year. Thank you. Mr. Kamen, the idea of taking and using it to solve our problems makes way too much common sense for our washington folks. I was always frustrated that the science fairs wanted i hypothesis, and it was just one in ration iteration of the process. I like that you teach baylor, that it is ok, and youre going to fail multiple times in an failure, and that is ok. It teaches that failure is ok, and motivates those classroom topics like trigonometry. Why would you care about it, unless you would see where you can use it . I want to ask about something you would know and are passionate about. I would think the equivalent of. Grammy would be a patent i bet they would love to get a patent because you are trying to push a string uphill. Trying to encourage these parents and kids to get excited about a degree or an education in stem. Unless there is a big pulling the street, at that should be that professional achievement. I is it not a little counterproductive for congress thatvance this narrative if you invent something and a big company dick york idea, and you try to live the american dream, that you might be a big hairy troll . Aboutuld be talking patent hobbits instead of patent trolls. I want to hear your views on congresss recent decision to change the patent system. Topic,y, that is a big and it is hard in a few seconds. You could have the rest of my time. I would violently agree with you that as an incentive, as a prize, it has to stay there. It has been of value, it is what has led the United States the past couple of years. It is not inquisitive that the Wright Brothers were edited or the google boards are here. It is the lifeblood of america, innovation, and the freedom to do it. Patents,that do have middle School Students that have applied for patents, we work with the patent office. We have had the director is a key person in our organization. People beingion of called trolls, they are relating to the general public the bad actors with the incredible importance of the patent system. I think mostly because of the misguided understanding, and most people in congress understand certain other intellectual properties. The dollar bill is an intellectual property. You cannot put it in your car, you cannot eat it. We know that there is a lot of credit card fraud in our country, but congress has not said lets stop using credit card. There are bad actors, and we butld put them in jail, nobody says we should close the mint and the treasury. Small levels of outrage outrage and inconvenience to people, Small Companies need to raise money. All sorts of Chinese Companies parade their little segue copies around. Im not sure what we can do about it because the United States used to be the pillar of we do not make compulsory licensing. It was the country that believed you could own private ideas and private property, and suddenly debate about how we are undermining it is emboldening the rest of the world to do what they are doing. Countrys Major Economic future depends on innovation. This is the wrong time to be before we touch the patent system i would love to have you come back. Would you be willing to testify on that subject . It is important. Otherwise, we are pushing a string uphill. I have 500 people. We do not make or sell a project. We give better solutions. This is a euphemism. I now recognize her for the questions. Thank you. Thank all of you for joining us here today. I went to the competitions well before being in congress. I would commend to my colleagues. It is exciting. It gets your juices flowing about what is possible. For those that have not done that, bring an astronaut to your school. I did in december. I took them in a Pilot Program in one of the middle schools in and under School Community were happy kids were girls. It was incredible. They were treated like rock stars. They told stories. This is the sort of thing we can do. I want to drill down a little bit of what more we can do about the specifics for the underrepresented. If you look at a state like connecticut, i had a caller from newtown is looking for five programmers and cannot find them. Goinge students that are to graduate with huge amounts of debt and they will do not have jobs and they will be baristas. We need to think how far back we need to go. We need to do it in high schools. We be looking further back . Should we be looking at Elementary Schools . I have bills out there to try to support teaching in Elementary Schools. Often starthat idea in classrooms. I have to say minority student and girls were led to believe they were not good at these. I want you to think about the ,ole that competition plays interactive actions. Where you fail you try a game. You keep doing it. It is like angry words and not like a test. The competition and what constructively the federal government can be in that. There are not 17 million high country. Ds in that we showed them that you do not need to be even be 13 or 14. Eight and nineyearold are doing the code. In terms of diversity, we had ine girls try coding december than all kids in the history of the United States. We have very much clipped the idea that i cannot do it completely on its head. If we continue to do that, as long as we make it fun, we can show kids they can do it. Is not the issue cultural one. The Biggest Issue is the access. Especially among the underrepresented minorities. The schools but to teach at our suburban schools. They are not urban schools. The underprivileged kids to not even have access. We are in agreement that you have to get their attitudes adjusted at a much earlier age otherwise they cannot get a train that is moving too fast when they get to high school. We need to have the equivalent of little league. Because there is college and high school and junior varsity, there were years such demands among the parents. What am i going to do for the younger brothers and sisters. League. Ed a lego whathairman flew over so were doing and said i will give you your little league. We now have tens of thousands of teams. Junior legonly have league for the kindergarten on up. It is a continuum. The superstar by mentality. One more comment about nasa. You talked about bringing astronaut. Boeing with have hundreds of teams and every pharmaceutical giant and semi or in history, but the largest Single Source of team is nasa. All the facilities around the andtry supply mentors grants to underserved schools. Their administrator came and was a guest speaker at our championship. Kids love nasa and space and technology. They love it all if you do not make it intimidating. Nasa has been a great partner. If you could find a way to have technologies, that was be great. Thank you. What forgive the buzzers. It is one of the news that goes on around here. Forgive me. Was it mr. Partovi . You do not believe it is cultural. Was. Ther said it i want to see the two of you debate each other. [laughter]. Orry some of us have perverse sense of the entertainment. I would like us to back up to a aimed at both the right and left have sort of touched on in the back to waive him. Is this something cultural . Most of us in this room, particularly those with gray hair, thing that will me took calculus and trig. It hurt. It was painful. When i couldnt do the homework, i do not want to go to school the next day because theres always the freakiest market that made fun of us. [laughter] m. I. T. With a bunch of patents. I am told the only thing we scored top in the world and in the United States is [indiscernible] have we done something perverse or nextgeneration culturally saying it is not always warm and fuzzy and teddy bears and pop uppies . It is hard work youre at it will be painful. You can get there. G for a consistency in thought were someone says it is cultural. It is booked into our expectation of each other and avoidance of pain. What is it . I like to clarify what i said. I completely agree with you. The country has a cultural impediment. He will do nothing we should work hard. Shouldle do not think we work hard. It is geeky to be a straight a student. With Computer Science, there has been an additional whole natural impediment of just it is all ones and zeros and i will ever never be able to touch that. People place in their mind Computer Science and programming as this thing that is harder than trigonometry and calculus, way out there. What we can easily prove when you see in a euro can do it millions of eightyearolds can do it, that is when it becomes more grounded. We need a culture that celebrates success and treats engineers and scientists as rock stars and teaches american that you have to make as to be cool. Right, gentleman to your white you are working with a lot of these young oh. That vision of cynicism our avoidance of what is our constant concerns about people selfesteem is an impediment to the understand of this is reality . I am in violent agreement with you including the guy next you. Kill me avoid the word t. Olent their i am in substantial agreement with you. [laughter] it is the hardest fun youll ever have. We tell these kids you are going to fail. We have given you a job you cannot do with the limited resources and time we have given you. To fail. Oing that is a microcosm of the real world. People who eventually succeed. We then go on to tell them all the stuff, why do you learn trigonometry . Things . Ll these youre going to quickly find yourself trying to do something that without understanding a arithmetic and calculus, youll not have the tools to do well. We make it relevant that we make it fun. Learn. W them to fail, to we say in sports you go out and you start than in tball ball. The ball does not move. You have a path. Then we say if you do not get it, you do not get a grade. You get a coach that nurtures you. Were going to put you in teams where youre going to be failing and failing and learning and learning. To i know we are up against time. These are the disincentives in our society. It was unacceptable to have a if i do certain things i can hire all. Likes should do you respect that should we reflect that and say i could lower Student Interest rates if i pursue this . We seem to have the various incentives up and down the food chain of education. I know were out of time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to the witnesses. I enjoyed the video as well as the sports analogy. Somebody grew up with a good outside jumpshot. It became evident that i was not going to be will chamberlain. To, iblic schools i went have teachers that believed in me and pushed me. They went on to medical school. Allowed to meet me where i was. I spent a lot of time looking at what we were doing. And is memorization regurgitation. This expense. It solves problem and teaches our kids and early age to clean. It is not have to cost a lot of money. This is very testing base. You have to do this in a very different way. The project put on paper and make it happen. I am glad that he is here. Last month i visited toby johnson and my hometown. We watch these seventh and eighth graders are doing an hour of code using your curcumin. Not a lot of money. Desire and a recognition that this was important. My question to any of you on the panel is how do we start changing the curriculum that allows the imagination curriculum to take place . We have got to do this in Elementary Schools. Wouldve seen a number of questions around this year it if these look like robotics, we will not have to have this conversation. We would see how much fun kids have. If you look at both math and science classrooms, it is a very assessment driven risk aversion environment for kids. That is not an environment where engineering thing can really happening thinking can really happen. You have to try. You have to fail. When kids come home to school, failure is a bad thing. Failure is something you avoid at all costs. Once it hits your gpa, it is all over. Then your College Career is over. It is a systemic issue that has to do with the culture of assessment. It turns a lot of kids off to harder subject because they are afraid to fail. It is critical to have teachers who are content experts. In differentass go directions. If the teacher does not feel comfortable, they will be very rigid. It is not allow for differential pay. Why would they go into teaching . Xed teachers who are content words that can get excited. Teachers can have an incredible heact. I am not sure yet changed the whole curriculum. That is our point. Kids are not going to bounce a ball for three hours a day because you put in the curriculum and tell them to do it. Out after school and do because they are inspired to do it good we do not claim nba is part of the curriculum. He could do it after school and felt a lot and get two of the shots in. You do not have a quiz. Is a perfect environment to teach people to fail. Kids do not want to learn trigonometry. It has no value. Leave it alone. The schools will do a great job. The gem teacher will do a great job against the basics. They will become experts because of their passion. You still need the analytic skills. You need arithmetic and geometry. If you havened well some motivation to use them. After school you really develop the skills. The curriculum do what it is supposed to do. Not by memory. Give them the basic tools. That is analysis. Is doing that and doing things with it. Fun. Ng basketball is you do one because of the other. Kids in underserved communities do not have a why am i doing this answer . Have this around their culture, they will need to learn to cope. To havel need to learn algebra. Schools ought to have a curriculum that is analysis ace. Give them an opportunity to use synthesis. All of that stuff should the working hand in hand one or the other. Thank you very much. I never can as mr. Collins. I am intrigued with a couple of thoughts. Im going to direct these. Theseobvious to me that are existing without federal funding. As a new member of congress, i came here with a core philosophy that Big Government generally does not have the answers. In congress, all too often when you look at the debate, there are those who think government can solve all the problems. There here and some of questions have been directed to you. What can we do . Ist of my philosophy nothing. Education starts with parents. Especially talk about feeding the pipeline. Parent care about their kids future. Theparents job to make sure local school board is hiring the teachers and setting a curriculum that works. The school board answers to the taxpayers and ultimately you go to the state. This is not have any federal involvement. The answer is the parents motivating the school board. My parents went to a high school of the that have this. They do not teach to the test. By not teaching the task, they could exceed everything that Public High School was doing. When it came time to graduate, student, engineering he won the physics competition. Second in the pumpkins during competition. It was all about fun. Did not come from the federal government. I do not think it can. A thing it comes from parents pushing the school board. I would love to hear a few comments from mr. Partovi and mr. Kamen. I do not think it is our job. I would agree with you in terms of the philosophy. Constitutionally, the federal government does not have that many strings they can pull. I have a slight disagreement with my colleagues. Computer science is currently not even in the curriculum. What if we do not have a courtroom . Curriculum . That would be one way. If the federal government does specify that this is a curriculum in a way that excludes Computer Science. You might get to a certain place. To allow it takes this. We have had one million parents petition via us. The school board says we have the funding. Way, we need to remove what i consider federal respondingbarriers to the pressure. Is the least we can do. I do not think we are in disagreement. I believe schools need to have to computeress technology in general. Kids need to get an earlier taste of it at a much lower age. I think we are in agreement there. Treating systems is high inertia. It is big. It takes a long time to change. For things that you want to be big and stable, government is ok. Nothing is changing faster than the world of tech. Nothing is changing faster than code. If they should get out of the way of trying to mandate at the micro level. For sure. I need your sons resume because we are desperate for megatron ics guys. Another place where government should come him is to make sure there is a fair Playing Field. I think that is what governments are really about. You cannot expect a kid to compete in a fair way. It is pretty clear your son was not at risk of not developing those skills. There are plenty of communities that do not have the resources or awareness of good judgment to make a demand. Not run this program. We do not want you to run this program. Schools that have that teacher or principal that is ready to say we have to leverage this, make sure they have the resources. You do brag about your kids. My son is going to do his junior year internship in tel aviv working for the Israeli Space program. You i willill tell be over in tel aviv on march 2 or we are having a massive event. They have a higher percentage of the schools in israel than we have in the United States years thank you very much. I now recognize mrs. Kelly. Thank you. Our questions have changed over and over listen to all my colleagues. I fall right into that stereotype. It was scary to me. You hit the now on the head in terms of access. I represent the chicagoland area. Most of my district is suburban and rural. They are shaky. To bring updated computers to the high schools and Elementary Schools so they can have something to work on. Is were i see government mean the safety net. If we do not do something about that, it will never be fair and equitable. I came in april in the s. T. E. M. Council and academy. In differenteople people with Community Colleges to see what we could do as far as changing the curriculum and what jobs are out there. Then i go to different areas in i have been meet different people. We service 750,000 people. If i go to one school and then another school you coming back next saturday . We are trying to get our businesses involved so they have some steadiness or some constant in their life to keep them interested. Is even though i have a doctorate, many of my Manufacturing Companies and advanced Manufacturing Companies say part of the issue is we go to school and we major in psychology and then we cannot find a job. Withfeel kids to graduate the tools they need and get it to your certification. Once you know how you thought about that . Not Everyone Needs a college education. The same thing in indiana. A great to get technical education, there are wonderful jobs for them. I do not think Everyone Needs to do this. There looking at me. You said you ran away from it. You did run away from education. It is not a disagreement. This put in front of them people they can relate to from the world of sports and entertainment. The reason i think we can agree is i think weve got to get to them very young and have them be skillnate as developing sets whether they are at a college or an outside job. Than passionate, you have to deliver the tools they need. Not putting pens into products anymore. Once we can turn them on to say i can do this stuff, the tools you have to get them have to be 21stcentury tools to do the right stuff. Or. S not an either the school has to have curriculum. They have to have all the things that you have to have them. I wanted this to be you can lead a horse to water. You can leave a kid to knowledge they cannot make them think. It would not matter if you have the best schools in the world. There is a 50 job out rate. The kids would rather do something else. Lets let the companies of america gives them the right kind of inspiration. This is the only one that has unlimited potential. The kids that need to know that most closely are the kids you are talking about. You should find ways to get the schools you have been visiting to get some teacher to be a coach, to get on 18. We have companies that will connect them. Thank you all for being here. This has been a very helpful hearing. There is a lot of other things going on here. It represents the activities. I think it is so important. We talk to members of congress. Our Top Priorities has to be s. T. E. M. Education. We have to be a nation committed to s. T. E. M. Education. Had to make that happen . What is our role . To motivatebest way our students specifically in s. T. E. M. Education so we can have a bright future. We need our help. Thee looking forward to panel of young people. I have some wonderful visitors physicists. They get so exciting to talk to other people. What is our role as government as government . Our goal is to get young people excited and make the most of these opportunities. That is what we have to do. And finding every possible way to get rid of Unfunded Mandates to excite our kids that are taking away opportunities for them to pursue their real passions. You all had done a great job working with my staff. A great job in illinois. I want to give a thanks and a and mr. T to mr. Partovi kamen. Last month i with my 12 year old in nine year old to do an hour of voting in elgin. Ofid the angry bird hour code and was successful. I was able to maneuver and code my way through an hour. I loved it. I was really encouraged. If i can learn how to do this, anybody can learn how to do this. And serving on this committee but do not have the pedigree that some of my colleagues have in this area. I really did see an excitement. My nineyearolds and my 12 yearold but tired of doing this. A mentor in this process was 13 year old whos is on the Robotics Team in elgin. They went to st. Louis last year. A great team. The whole team is phenomenal. I am so proud of them. My nine and 12 are old also got to meet with the robot team to see their latest robots. Brothers andtheir sisters guanxi were doing the legal robots. My nine and 12 or old were intimidated by the rob bougots. They could say now i could see how this works together. I want to commend you for what youre doing. We want to be helped. There are some challenges in this. One of the things i recognize as we see a lot of people who are going to college to pursue this and then art topping out and then are dropping out because they did not see it as what they thought it was going to be. What can we be doing to encourage people who should be staying in this to stay in the . Are there more internships, can beships that we encouraging that can help people who are our best and brightest thing in this . Code. Org is doing a great job at this. What else can we be doing. There is this conversation about kids do not like trigonometry. They do not like calculus. They do not like test. Kids like making apps. Like making cool stuff. Without the federal government help, we have managed to get this to tens of thousands of schools. In one month our curriculum that you saw, a 20 hour long course, is almost in 10,000 schools with no cost. Important, however you want to do it is to remove the barriers. The goal is to put the t. Insto s. T. E. M. Youryou think of s. T. E. M. Mind goats to us. When you go to the school, what they think about is Life Sciences and math and maybe physics. The Technology Part is not even there. Jobsthan 50 of s. T. E. M. Are in Computer Science. Visas are for Computer Sciences. That should be something the federal government can play a role in. Currently it does provide barriers. My time is up. Theres so much more i would love to talk to you about. We would love to have you come back and have some more focused testimony on this. Computersponsor of the science act. Theres so much more we can be doing there. Important parents and tutors are. That is a lender. This is a great opportunity for your kids to have a great future in maybe change the future. These are incredibly dedicated to the kids education. It pays off richard dividends. My own kids were inspired by this as well. Inc. You all. I wish we had a lot more time. I look or to hearing from students. I yield back. The chair objection recognizes ms. Edwards for five minutes. I really appreciate your allowing me to sit in on this committee. His is not my subcommittee. This is not my subcommittee. I come to this from a couple of different places. , when you visit in son school when he was in a great, for him and all of the students it was very inspiring. It was not that they were necessarily going into were setting the field you gave them a different avenue and approach to the work they were doing. Student and i had a great aptitude for science and math. I would not say i was discouraged from going into the fields but i was not actively encouraged. As a result, i did not. It was not until after high , and a after college different direction that i happened upon lockheed engineering. I got a job there. I ended up doing analysis and writing and Software Testing and then development. I discover that i did have a very practical aptitude. It where reese need that it worries me sometimes that we are not in the need morethat we encouragement for students who may not think of that as their first choice. They may not have the parents at home understand that. A lot of Companies Wanted a relationship with the school system. It was so incredibly difficult. Could they only been here for an hour or two a day . Still working out some of the kinks in terms of the relationships with the private sector that gives it a much more tactical Vantage Point of how to do work in and with our school system. Every year i do a college fair. This last year we had about 165 or so colleges and universities. We bring employers to do demonstration projects. It helps for students to say where is this that i am going . Where am i proceeding . Nationalve a association of black engineers. These African American students could see engineers look like them who were doing projects with them so that they could see the direction they were going on. Think it is one thing or another thing. Sometimes the federal government has to set a floor but it cannot be the e all and end all. We will hear from two students from counties in a state where we said we cannot just have one science or technology school. We have to have that kind of learning taking place in all of our schools. It is a real transformation from the time i was at lockheed to where we are now. I applaud you for what you shared with us. The private sector is going to have to step up and work with our schools and our institutions of Higher Learning so that we are getting a better match of people who are coming out with degrees in the kind of work done in the workplace. We have such a mismatch. It is the reason you have two struggle with the visas. God love the people coming into our companies. It is because we have a terrific mismatch between the students who are reducing the skills they have and the workforce needs. We have to marry those up. I close my comments because i came here for the second panel but i applaud what you do. I hope in congress we can see across the aisle to begin to get this right from a policy perspective. I thank you for being here. Quite thank you. Without objection, the chair recognizes mr. Kennedy for five minutes. I will be quick. Thank you for indulging yet another member that is not on the slip admits he and has great interest in this topic. Thank you for being here. I am very interested in actively engaged in a number of s. T. E. M. Initiatives. One of the challenges i have demand from the private sector to provide more talented engineers and Computer Sciences. As we try to structure what that actually is and looks like, a reluctance of some to look at initiatives as a long Term Investment in their own business model. Rather than a shortterm philanthropy initiative. This is more than a strategic overall development. Any recommendation to me or this committee as to how to get the private sector more involved. A lot of of the problem is to start doing things that are. The idea that a scientist with a phd in engineering cannot go into a school because they are not qualified to teach. That is fine. We do not want to treat an issue there. Let the students get credit for being on the programs. Let them get college credit. Hodges are desperate for our graduates and alumni. Macys are for the teachers to get credit. How to bring coding into the school. Theres so much structure. And that sure is a difficult thing to overcome. You cannot underestimate that it kill discourages you. I think you were actively discouraged because of so much else in our culture that was sending you to different places for different reasons. All that willt of get past the age really can del valle up where they can develop these. Government can help getting rid of some this nonsense. They can invest in r d. They think youre talking about tax weather you can be credits or other types of incentives. It can be anything from a simple as providing summer teacher internships so they can keep current with engineering coding practices. A lot of the small Startup Companies are way too small to post these internships like Larger Companies do. I think there are some creative opportunities to incentivize business participation. Is a partially self interested Workforce Development issue. I agree that many the efforts may be trying to hide the next engineer our hire a high school immigrant or do a laptop giveaway to take a photo opportunity. We have a strong coalition. It is paying back the country dividends. We may be one of the only nonprofit second claim google, microsoft, apple, juniper, all participating not in small levels but google changed their logo for the hour of code. Apple put into every single store. Bill gates and Mark Zuckerberg delivered video lectures for us. These are very longTerm Investments in changing the system. These Companies Want to form a Public Private partnership to bring Computer Science to all american schools. Thank you. I yield back my negative time. [laughter] you do not have any time left. I would like to thank all of the witnesses. We do not talk about much today, but i do think the retention issue of students that do initially go into s. T. E. M. Is a big deal. I and a big gladwell fan. In his most recent book, he talks about the fact that the mismatch between the student and the school am a which school important. , is if a student chooses a school that does not match them challenge was or otherwise, they have a tendency to drop out. And to feel like they cannot compete. School mitch match is a big problem. School mismatch is a big row problem. The witnesses are excused from this part of our hearing. Were going to take a very short rate. If everyone can stay seated, please do. We will try to transition as quickly as possible to the next hearing. Thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] we will have more from this hearing on s. T. E. M. Programs in a couple of minutes we hear from some of the students in the program. King is the Martin Luther junior holiday as we look live at the monument of the civil rights leader, dedicated just two years ago. We watch. A quick reminder that we will have live coverage of some of the them ok holiday event here. Joe biden and how sharpton are speakers of the birth is hosted by the National Action network. Coverage of that coming up at why 40 p. M. Eastern today. Tad 5 40 p. M. Eastern today. They took the day to honor the legacy of service by helping prepare meals at a local soup mission. Cording to the associated press, they joined in as a workers at helping central kitchen to make burritos. It prepares thousands of nodes each day for local shelters and was marking its 25th anniversary today. Here is a look. We are noting the 25th anniversary of this outstanding institution. Be a part ofud to it. We want to thank everybody whos here for all the great work they do. Burritos. Of or tortillas. Here we go. This technique is outstanding, by the way. I am very proud of her. It looks like we have lamb here. Beef. I can tell. The beef with the sauce. The cheese. Science technology, engineering and mathematics for grants. Action marks from students is taking part. Thisll be a fascinating part of the hearing. We would hear from those who is most education important. Thank you for being here. It may not have been easy to get permission from your parents and teachers to come. I think when he told them you testify in front of congress, maybe they give you a little latitude. Getsow not every Program Every student excited. We are interested in lending from your perspective whether it is code. Org, project lead the way or something else. Witness ie elena. She is in 12th grade. Our second witness is bryan morr is. He is in 12th grade at chantilly academy in virginia. Our third with nest is mr. Daniel nettie. At george1th grade Mason High School in falls church, virginia. Our final witness is mr. Vishnu. He is in the 12 grade at Eleanor Roosevelt high school in greenville, maryland. Spoken testimony is limited to five minutes. After which members of the committee will have five minutes to ask your questions. The testimony will be included in record. I network unites our first witness. I now recognize our first witness. Likes thank you. Thank you members of the committee. I am a little different than most of the other kids for two reasons. , noteing im legally blind fully blind and not fully cited. Cut in the middle. I am not actually going into a s. T. E. M. Career. It has definitely changed a lot and encouraged a lot of things for me. Just being a part of first. I cannot see one of two ways sports. You are an immediate target for dodgeball. I was always the first one out when i tried. Games were hard. Lots of other activities were difficult. I first heard about first through a friend of mine who was on the team enters sister was as well. They have been doing it for a wild. The way she talked about it it seem like such a great atmosphere and a good opportunity. I apply for the next year and got into it on the business side. Once i was in, after a while i got adjusted. In see all kinds of things progress. It is very interesting to see. Robots are cool. There is a place for everybody, really. I did not have to worry about being judged for anything. I did not have to worry about whether or not i could do it. I could work on the robot directly or anything because i cannot see well enough to do that. You can certainly be involved. When you watch it happen, it is really very cool. That is all i have to say. Quite thank you very much. That is a fascinating perspective that you do not have to be interested in the s. T. E. M. Field to get benefits from s. T. E. M. Education. I now recognize our next witness. Mr. Morris. Good morning. With veteran first member my involvement spending seven years in several programs offered by first including fll and frc. This is been integral to my developed as a person and engineer. It has trained me in ways normal classroom schooling never has. Because of first i feel more prepared to face the challenges and obstacles of the road world than i ever imagined i would. My involvement dates back to seventh grade. Five of my friends decided to give robotics a try. I resigned thought of the first programs only as games to play for entertainment. I soon realized they were so much more. It is not just about the competition. It is also about the life and learning experiences i being on a team, working with technology, solving problems, inspiring others to do the same. This got me hooked. I cannot say what my favorite part is. Theres really so much i have enjoyed. Ive had a chance to work on longterm projects, seemed to go from the drawing board to the physical finished projects just my favorite part. I learned how to manage and lead large groups. It is overwhelmingly helpful and supportive. The outpouring of passion and ishusiasm at first event refreshing, and watching enthusiasm of so many young people in science and Technology Gives me hope. It helped me discover my passion for engineering, and because of first, i cant say i cant i want to pursue Electrical Engineering as a career. I have applied to several schools in virginia and the nation, and i hope my stint with first will give me an edge up in admissions. Im sure the skills i