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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Can schools make science cool?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Super Bowl of science fairs is in town. For the first time Atlanta is hosting the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair.
About 45 of the nearly 1,500 students competing are from Georgia. The people who brought the competition to Atlanta hope more of the state’s students will participate in the future.
“We want to raise awareness of the fact it can be cool to be into science when you’re in school,” said Bill Dodd, chairman of the state host committee. “We want to get kids excited about science and engineering so they will pursue it as careers.”
Dodd is one of many people and groups talking about the need for more students to get into science.
Many schools have tried to make science more interesting. Kids can build robots. Some teachers let kids clone DNA and show them how to work with industry-grade equipment.
Still, interest in science isn’t where leaders want it to be. What are they missing? What more can be done to get kids into science?
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