Congressional "App Challenge" Deadline for Submissions is 4/30/14

Congressman Bob Goodlatte and Congress Member Anna Eshoo are co-chairs of the 2014 Congressional App Challenge, which is modeled after the Congressional Art Challenge.  Designed to promote interest in STEM and coding, the competition allows high school students in districts where the member of Congress has opted in to submit an app that they create by no later than 30 April 2014.  For further information and to register for the competition, visit 2014 Congressional App Challenge .

STEM Focus Continued in 2012 State of the Union Address

President Obama has once again advanced the STEM agenda in the State of the Union address delivered on 24 January.  Building upon the "100K in 10" (100,000 new highly-qualified STEM teachers trained over the next 10 years - http://100kin10.org/) theme from the 2011 State of the Union, the President asked Congress to pass legislation which would re-train 2 million unemployed American workers to obtain STEM skills.   http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/stem-education/2012/01/25/obama-pushes-stem-in-state-of-the-union  In a follow-up story, during a town-hall social media conference held on 30 January, the President requested the resume of one long-unemployed semiconductor engineer whose wife participated, offering to circulate it to employers. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-offers-circulate-resume-unemployeed-engineer-google-hangout-article-1.1014377?localLinksEnabled=false ]. 

To see the full text of the address, visit http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2012/01/25/2012-state-union-address-enhanced-version#transcript.