Best quotes by Megan Smith on Science

Checkout quotes by Megan Smith on Science

• ‟ The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.

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• ‟ We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.

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• ‟ I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

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• ‟ Science class is traditionally taught as science history class - you learn all these facts that someone else discovered, which you need to know, but that's not really an inspiring way to learn science.

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• ‟ The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

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• ‟ There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.

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• ‟ I was lucky that science fair was mandatory at my high school in inner-city Buffalo.

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