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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
We are now getting to the point where the whole community in many cases

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provides this incentive which will provide a great deal of impetus

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to have scientists for the future.

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{SPEAKER name="Elizabeth Drews"}
And I think not only are we getting where a community could do this

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but we're getting where a community should do this.

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Reading an article like Russia's on the next 10,000 years

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and realizing that all of a sudden, man is so much in control of his environment

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and he is really the one who is taking over evolution,

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and i think providing the model or the image that the child can pattern after,

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if it isn't being done in the home, will have to be taken up by the community or the teachers

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so that we'll have an appropriate climate,

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we're trying something along that line and we hope we can continue.

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We, uh, one of our clubs, Civitan, which is a mens group

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similar to Rotary or something like this,

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has taken this group of bright children

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and have tried to find adults who are achieving

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in areas in which these students are interested.

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Practicing engineers, scientists, other people,

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and have given them opportunities to visit these men at their work,

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to go to their state meetings and also to visit some of the people on the campus

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so that perhaps we can artificially provide a model or two for some of them.

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{SPEAKER name="Watson Davis"}
Well that kind of a pattern is being taking place throughout the country

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because we have over 150 science fair groups

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who have community organizations with a very large amount of participation,

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industrials, industrialists, these service club groups,

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the schools, and the colleges, the museums,

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the newspapers are all joining together to do this

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and they're doing exactly that throughout the country

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and I think that's one of the most hopeful things that's happening in this country of ours today

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is that these fairs, science fairs, which culminate in the spring

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are actually giving these youngsters a chance to have their questions answered

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and have the sudden motivation to allow them to go on

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and develop these very high talents that they do have.