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Lucrative careers aren’t always tied to a college degree. “Inspire Youth Inspire Dreams” expo by Modesto City Schools wants to show this to students.

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What do you think about that? >> for me its actually the opposite because i feel like because i cant see that i want to make that happen. so not being able to see that many girls i want to be that one to spark the growth of technology in the girls world. >> labor department says by 2020 just about after you guys graduate there will be an estimate 1.2 million job openings for computer specialists and scientists. what do you want to do with this huge skill that you have now? >> i was just really l...

And yet fewer and fewer women have graduating with stem degrees. women now graduate with the majority of college degrees, we are losing ground in fields like engineering and computer science degrees. so that means that were losing ground in those fields and the mid 1980s, about 36% of computer science jobs were held by women. and in 2006, it was about 20% and last year it was less than 15%. and we know that if were really going to kind of own our own future, we cant leave a gender behind. we all...

Down the street from you. i think, well, thats the internet. free access thats down the street from you isnt your local college anymore. it is internet classes. >> which is an interesting point, because as the cost of learning is becoming cheaper, ironically the cost of education keeps going up and up and up. so why might that be? >> interesting. >> one of the problems -- this is what i like to call the "u.s. news & world report" industrial complex. >> oh, i know this one. >> people rank schools...

before this man allegedly tried to kill president obama, he sent a tape to oprah winfrey. youll hear what he had to say. also, you remember the story of the baseball player kidnapped in ve vein zela, hes safe and back with his team. lets start right now with the break being story out of libya. where saif gadhafi has been captured apparently trying to flee. he was caught mere the algerian libya poureder. he is wanted by the criminal court. what do know? >> reporter: t.j., were joined ...

Anyway. now people are saying it. lets talk about this. there is an app for everything out there. there is now a degree for apps. i thought when i first read this there is an app for getting a degree. computer software engineers are among the fastest growing careers. christine, is this good marketing or is this a good degree? >> well, look, this degree is going to change. its a four-year degree. everything is going to change in four years. you should be taking computer science classes and comput...