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[left margin] Alice: Mother -> Detroit Lakes, Carleton <- (Dis-Owned) [/left margin] Lorell: Grand Oasis, Great Vastness [Sci Ed, Girls!, my path, Q+A] MN ED. [right margin] 1 3 [/right margin] Sagan: It's suicidal to create soc. that depends on sci/tech, in which no one knows anything.... [left margin] engines & econ [/left margin] • sci & tech are engines that drive econ → ironic that our soc,. that relies so much on sci/tech → & got to be a world leader thru ability to innov.., eng., & expl.- puts so little value on emphasis on sci education. → your schools are developing workforce that will [[?]] fuel MN's econ in future → it's critical to provide that future workforce [students] w/ the sci/math/tech knowledge & skills they'll need to know MN to compete globally. TX congratulations for emphasis [left margin] [[strikethrough]] 310.665.5700 [[/strikethrough]] [/left margin] Other countries now put far more emphasis on sci/tech than US does nat'ly → & it's starting to show. Over last several years, lost our competitive adv → China and India •Have people who are just as smart •now educating & TNG[[training?]] them just as well [& sometimes better in early stages] •Doing so in large #'s Time for us to wake up & respond to challenge, like we did 50 years ago after launch of sputnik [[strikethrough]] → again [[/strikethrough]] value & emphasize sci + math ed. [left margin] why is sci ed important? reasons for sci ed [left margin] Point to emphasize → critical to provide good [quality] ed in sci/math for all our kids...