[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9176-9177]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  2014 SCIENCE FAIR AND STEM EDUCATION

  (Mrs. DAVIS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. DAVIS of California. Mr. Speaker, this week, the White House 
hosted high school students from across the country for its 2014 
Science Fair.
  San Diego high school student Eric Chen was among the attendees and 
was praised by President Obama for his award-winning research into 
combating influenza. I rise to congratulate

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Eric and celebrate all students across the country who eagerly pursue 
scientific research.
  We must continue to provide students with opportunities to 
demonstrate their excitement and their mastery in science, technology, 
engineering, and math. Soon we will depend on these same students to 
tackle our biggest challenges; and at times, they will inherit problems 
that seem daunting: climate change, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, 
drought, food scarcity, the list goes on.
  We are at a critical crossroads in so many areas and cannot afford to 
lose our technological edge. We must provide students with the tools 
necessary for success by further investing in STEM education. It begins 
by heavily recruiting teachers who go beyond the traditional role of 
educators, teachers that become mentors and explorers and visionaries 
with their students; and we need teachers who inspire our best and 
brightest young minds to do more than the generation before them ever 
could imagine.
  STEM education is an issue that we can all rally around, and I urge 
my colleagues to do so when supporting this important initiative.

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