Shoot for the Stars- A Regents' Lecture Given by Sally Ride En

5/21/2018 Shoot for the Stars- A Regents' Lecture Given by Sally Ride En

In okay I think it's time we welcome our speaker so I am Francis hellman chair the Physics Department

and I'd like to welcome all view to the region's lecture will

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lecture which is gonna be given today by

professor Sally Ride

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ot this lecture is made possible by the

Regents of the University of California

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and I want to extend my gratitude to the

region's lectureship committee headed by

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Professor John will teach

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as well as Chancellor boers know who's

sitting I here with us today

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other distinguished guests in the

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audience um so we're very

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excited to have such a the a great group

here on

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before I say anything else let me make

sure to remind everybody turn off your

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cell phones

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om and we also were gonna have a process

for asking questions so we'd like to

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limit with not have questions during

that during %uh professor rides talk

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but following other the her her lecture

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and we ask people to come up and get in

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line or whatever to

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to ask questions and I'll definitely

been nice long question and answer

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period at the end

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so um I into the lot a puck public

lectures but I it's very rare that I

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look out into the audience and see so

many young people and usually when I

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mean young people I mean undergraduates

but in this case I truly mean young


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people

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I am particularly young women so to see

so many young women at a a

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at a physics lecture is really very

exciting on it's not surprising we have

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a i

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a foot woman who I regard as a hero in

an icon a

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speaking to us today I'm so professor

ride was a native Los Angeles she went

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to school first and fourth quarter and

then went on to do decreed had to get

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her degrees

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accommodating in a PhD at Stanford

University

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on I doctor right is known to all of us

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as the first American woman asked not to

go into space but i wanna know that

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she's also known to me personally as a

friend and a colleague

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and somebody who's gone way beyond the

call of duty to foster the development

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of interest in the sciences

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on she is a truly remarkable individual

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after her PhD after receiving a PhD she

was selected for astronaut training and

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a space shuttle missions after the

challenger disaster

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on she was chosen to be a member of the

presidential commission investigating

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that disaster and

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obstacle offered the resulting report


she was then assigned to nasa

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headquarters a special assistant to the

administrator

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I was responsible for various reports

became the first director of nasa's

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officer space exploration

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came for

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was spent 10 years at UC San Diego as

the professor during which time she

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created a program

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called kids at in which undergraduate

research students supervised by graduate

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students develop programs to enable

middle school students to take pictures

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from the space shuttle have locations

around the earth

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it's just a fantastic program that is


not that that this

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a my understanding is still going very

strong today an israeli

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on just a role model for this whole

sequence of love involvement all aged

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kids working with all other age kids and

Anna

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a great program up she's been a

memorable whole set above high level

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national committee's has served on the

boards as the congressional office of

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I'm along with the I'm not gonna go into

but Asia

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truly distinguished om national and

international reputation

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she has she's on the border I've app

already in the MITRE Corporation a

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fellow of the American Physical Society

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currently serves on the board of the

Aerospace Corporation the cat and

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and of Caltech she is on up

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thing love this long list them thinking

what also want to mention is this really

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her many accomplishments over under

induction into the Women's Hall of Fame

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at the California Hall of Fame

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as well as the words such as the

jefferson Public Service Award and the

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National Space Flight metal

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on its it's really however her in trust

and focus on

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education that I want that I wanna mom's

friend is the minute introducing


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a her were where she had the things

she's created

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she's written numerous science books for

children and 2001 established a company

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known as a

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called imaginary lines but more commonly

known as Sally Ride science

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this is a company that creates science

programs including National Science

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Festival

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class from finance kids publications for

elementary middle school

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students with components for teachers

kids and parents

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so I think she is our you know she's a

woman who

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I is had just on the remarkable career

everything from


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arts really state-of-the-art a a science

research herself

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to this to the work she focuses on now

Dave in science and math education

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and so is on the topic a science and

math education along with her

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fascinating and inspiring career

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that's always going to speak to us this

evening and it's my great pleasure to

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welcome her

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a scientist a trailblazer and a friend

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thank you for answers

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I'm

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it's great to be here first ball and

it's good to see

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I so many so many faces and so many


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young faces as well when astronaut jim

lovell

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apollo thirteen fame was circling the

moon

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he looked back at earth and called our

planet a grand oasis in the great bass

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thats extremely unusual eloquence for an

astronaut you can hear anymore that

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today what I would like to do though is

that

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at share a little bit my experiences

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in the space program tell you a little

bit more about how I got into the space

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program

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and and then a spend some time talking

about


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science education as as Francis noted

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that's my passion now that's when

spending essentially all of my time on

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now and it's a a a major problem for our

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for our country today as I'm sure most

you in the audience now

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a I was a graduate student at Stanford

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just a couple of months away from

finishing my PHD

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cafeteria

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one Tuesday morning about eight in the

morning

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reading the Stanford student newspaper

the Stanford daily

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and I still remember to this day opening

up the daily

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and seeing in the lower right hand

corner of page three

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the daily and add that nasa had put into

the Stanford student newspaper

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and student newspapers all around the

country saying that they were looking

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for applications for astronaut

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and the moment I saw that ad I knew

that's what I wanted to do I ripped it

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out in the newspaper and I literally

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lot of other people did the same thing

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there are about eight thousand of us who

applied to that

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that opportunity and the reason that

there was such a large

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I'm applicant pool was that this was the

first time

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actually over 10 years that now so was

accepting any astronauts at all

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and it was the first time that they were

admitting women

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into the astronaut corps and in fact

that's the reason that they

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they publicized in university newspapers

because

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they were smart enough to know that in

less they

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reached out and to where qualified women

would see

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the the announcement realize there was

an opportunity

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that they would never even find out

about the chance to apply

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to that apply to the program so eight

thousand Aversa

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applied to that program out ofthe that

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a nasa picked 35 us to be

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the first class a vaster not

specifically selected for

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that a the space shuttle program we were

to join their 20 or so astronauts that

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had been around

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in the astronaut corps for ten or

fifteen years since the

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that Mercury Gemini and Apollo programs

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that group of 35 is actually still

representative

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the astronaut class today and

representative what nasa's looking for

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in astronauts I'm our group of 35

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included not 15 astronauts with test

pilot backgrounds

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and 20 astronauts with science or

engineering backgrounds

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and that's common today today dr. shot

course limit less than 40 percent

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test pilot background astronauts into

and little over sixty percent

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scientists and engineers that group of

35 also included the first six women

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and today the astronaut corps is right

around 25 percent

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and women so at nasa

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and the astronaut corps have all come

come a long way and since that

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that first application since I'm

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speaking at a university I should I

should tell you that this

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at if nothing else illustrates that you

should read your student newspaper

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years never know what you're gonna see

in it

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I'm I should probably also tell this

group that

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without a doubt my father was the

happiest person on the planet when I was

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selected to be an astronaut

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my father didn't have a scientific bone

in his body

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he taught political science at a

community college in southern california

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he was about to have a daughter with a

PhD in astrophysics

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and my father didn't know what

astrophysics what's

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my father was not able to explain to his

friends when his daughter was about to

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do for a living

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and then became an astronaut and my

father's problems were over

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I'm he understood it he could explain it

all his friends he was a very happy man

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from from that point on well as soon as

I finish my PhD at pack my bags

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and move to Houston Texas along with all

the other members have our

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and new astronaut class houston is where

the johnson said

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Space Center is located that's where

astronauts go to live and work and

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and train and I got mine for my turn to

fly in space

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a my turn came first my first flight was

on the 7th fly to the space shuttle

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that was my first chance to strap into a

rocket

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on the launch pad and go from a standing

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to 17,500 miles an hour

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in eight-and-a-half really fast minutes

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and then a was the space shuttle's

engines cut off

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and we were in orbit around Earth it's

my first chance did

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unbuckle float weightless in the the

space shuttle

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weightlessness by the way something that

I recommend to all of you

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its it's just fun there's no other word

for it

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and then of course it was also my first

chance to float over the window

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and take a look down at the really

spectacular view

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love the earth below I'm I got to look

out to


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and see coral reefs off the coast of

Australia

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I can see glaciers and in the Himalayas

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I could CDF deforestation in the Amazon

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I'm like the smog over Los Angeles

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I could see the red roofs and Stanford

I'm which I which I look for I didn't

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look for Berkeley I apologize

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what I do

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and for a few minutes anyway is

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try to share that perspective with you

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I learned a long time ago that whenever

an astronaut goes someplace to

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to speak if they don't bring pictures


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the trap door opens really quick and the

lectures over

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so I did bring some some photos up the

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a above the earth from space to try to

give you a sense

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the the different kinds of things thatyou can see

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from space and that the perspective that

we've got

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I so I put this in just provide been in

space

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if you look out towards the horizon this

is the kind of perspective the GC

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commute the lights

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came new Casey that okay

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about getting the

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has at set that work okay good

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up to if you look off towards the

horizon this is the kind of perspective

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but you've got

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you can see a few hundred kilometers of

in any one direction you can see

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maybe a thousand kilometers off towards

the horizon this of course is Florida

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this is what Florida looks like to nest

on the space shuttle or the astronauts

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the shuttle in the station a fly in just

about the same orbit

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near lot of things that you can see in

this picture I'm

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a bank of clouds of the east coast to

the state

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if you look closely about half way up

the East Coast you'll see Cape Canaveral

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jutting out into the Atlantic Ocean

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you can see the different colors up blue

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the light blue above the water

surrounding the state just along the

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and that that's indicative in the

shallow water right near the coast in

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that water

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at gets to be a deeper blue as the water

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is becomes deeper their lot of other

things that you can see but one of the

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reasons that I put this in as its

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it it to provides a really good example

love one of the most striking sights

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a to an astronaut the first time here

she looks off towards the horizon

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take a look at the horizon

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you can see that right where earth fans

and space begins

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there's a really really thin royal blue

line that goes

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all the way across the horizon it almost

looks like to me somebody took a

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a sharp blue pink crayon

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the

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thin blue line is Earth's atmosphere

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that's all there is a bit that's all

that separates

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everything we know on our planet from

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the vacuum the blackness the emptiness


have

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space you know when you stand on earth

you look up it looks like beer goes on

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forever

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when you see it from this perspective

it's obvious how

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really is

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let me show you just a a few examples

the natural features that you can see

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this is a picture looking through theStraits of Gibraltar

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you're looking at Spain on the left in

North Africa on the right

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and take a look at Spain the southern

part ofthe

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the country a he's kind of a light brown

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in that light color brown changes really


abruptly to

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add to a darker brown that line for

bright color change

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is an earthquake fault it's a fault that

runs

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the width Spain turns out that it's

really really easy to see

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a linear features like a like faults in

seismic structures from

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from space

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okay this is a apart in the world thatin the news a lot

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and this is that pictured Middle East

this is the Mediterranean Sea on the

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left side of the screen so you're

looking at a picture up

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on Israel Jordan Syria a small corner

above

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each chipped a right in the middle of

the picture is that

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small Sea of Galilee and directly below

it

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is the kinda oblong shaped did see he

let your eyes go from the sea of galilee

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down to the Dead Sea you'll notice that

their

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following a linear feature a straight

line that

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line linear feature is the 11-team fault

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Middle East

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it's actually the reason the Sea of

Galilee is where it is the reason the

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Dead Sea is where it is

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and that same a that same fault extends

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over a thousand kilometers further south


and is the one that opens up to form the

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the Red Sea I'm their lot of other

things that you can see in this picture

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to just take a look at the different

colors

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not in the land those are indicated

above different types a rock or

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different ways the land is being used so

you can actually

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learn a lot about land use from from

photographs or perspectives like this

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right corner of the screen you can see

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water drainage patterns

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that gives you an idea of how easy it is

to monitor water resources

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from from space and just as an aside if

you look at the lower left you see

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there's a

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a really sharp line that separates kinda

dark color land from

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from the just this little triangle love

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a kind of sand-colored land that

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line that sharp sharp line is actuallythe border between

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a Israel and and Egypt and you can see

it at the time is voting

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was taken just because the different

types of land-use

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different ways the land was being used

I'm in the two countries

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this what hurricane looks like from

orbit on this was a

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back category-four hurricane that was

active

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during my second spaceflight


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look at that the detail that you can see

in the feeder bands have the

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at the hurricane to I'm really pretty

spectacular in the next the next photo

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is going to be looking right down the I

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and here you're seeing all the way tothe water the Indian Ocean through the

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3i I'm that detail that you can see in

the eye wall

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is a really spectacular exit is a great

picture I wish I'd taken this picture

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ok didn't

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me she just a couple examples a

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a the effective civilization that you

can see from space

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this is a a a picture looking down at a

small corner Portugal


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and what you're seeing on the contrary

als from airplanes going in and outta

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Lisbon's a airport that day and you can

actually tracy's contrails back interest

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out the arrival and departure it's at

the airport

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a the astronauts who took this picturethought they were taking a

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taking a picture above kinda been an

overcast day in brazil

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said this photograph a is looking

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from East at the bottom to west at the

top all the way across the Amazon Basin

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in in Brazil they thought they were

photographing an overcast day

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a with the overcast can cut off by the

Andes Mountains there at the top that

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the top to the picture turns out what

they were photographing was not an


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overcast layer of clouds

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but accumulated smoke and haze that had

built up as result is the fires that

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have been set to burn parts to the

Amazon forest

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and what they thought were I'mindividual puffy clouds are thunder

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clouds

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thunderstorms we're actually plumes of

smoke

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over fires that were burning at the time

this photograph was taken

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the one right in the middle in the

picture is an enormous fire

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actually larger van summer the worst

fires that we get here in California

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Southern California


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on Northern California and this is what

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the Amazon Basin looks like every day

during the dry season

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this with yours looks like at night lot

of people have this image of

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a astronauts a kinda for

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a with their their eyes glued to the

windows in snapping photos during the

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daylight cited the orbit min

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the taxpayers are paying us to do on the

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nights I did the orbit

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nothing could be further from the truth

were actually the windows all the time

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ok and you can see why is absolutely

beautiful

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this is that a picture a Midwest United

States

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and the city's a that you're seeing here

in the lower left is

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Indianapolis and then going diagonally

across

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at the screen and you see Dayton and

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Columbus Cincinnati a little bit to the

south and if you go all the way to the

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upper

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I'm upper right hand corner you seekinda on orange smudge

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I'm dead smudges that the city lights

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from Philadelphia all the way to to New

York City

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absolutely beautiful beautiful sight

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when my favorites a memories are looking

down at the earth when the most


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spectacular

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a sites that I had was to you know there

were several so it's a little hard to

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choose but one of them

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was during my second flight we were

primarily an earth-observing flight

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sue what that meant us was that and I'm

our instruments needed to be pointed to

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the grounds are windows were pointed to

the ground so we had a really good view

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of the earth

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and we are I had one orbit that took us

up

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the east coast to the United States at

night and we could look off in the

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distance

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NC Miami coming about 200 kilometers

away

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and then we were able to literally trace

out

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the entire east coast in the US in

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absolutely continuous lights all the way

from Miami

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up north of Boston I'm absolutely

spectacular

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at a trip that took us about five

minutes by the way

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okay let me a transition now and talk

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a a little bit about science science

education in the importance in science

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education

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I'm at I want you all to first ball

appreciate that vintage nineteen

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seventies photo of Carl Sagan

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I'm the Carl Sagan once said it's

suicidal to create a society that

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depends on science and technology

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in which no one knows anything about

science and tech

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write science and technology as you all

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know where the engines that

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the drive our economy and its really

ironic when you start to think about it

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yet our society that relies so much

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on science and technology and really got

to be a world leader

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through our ability to innovate an

engineer and explore

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has put so little emphasis on science

education


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and so little priority on it a over the

last %uh few decades

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I'm as a result

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a we've got a a real problem

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with science education today and it's

easy did

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to but drown you in statistics on that

but let me just share a few with you

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internationally US students are now 25th

in math and 21st in science

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not even a not only not not first but

not even really very competitive

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with their their colleagues in other

countries

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US now ranks 17 in high school

graduation rate

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and in case you think that we make that

up with college graduation rate you're


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wrong

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were 12 internationally in college

graduation rate

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but you don't need to compare us to

other countries to see that there's a

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problem

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just within the US only a third Ave a

third of eighth graders

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up actually don't graduate from high

school and oh those that do

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less than 43 percent meet college

readiness standards in math

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and it's even worse for science it's

less than 30 percent me college

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readiness

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I'm standards in science and in fact

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a.m. ninety percent a fifth through

eighth graders in physical sciences are

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taught by a teacher without a credential

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in the in the subject so a

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maybe it's not surprising that we've got

a problem

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with a with science education

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science education however has become a a

national imperative

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we all know that science education isimportant and it's important for a lot

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of different reasons some of which you

may not have thought about

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sum up what you undoubtedly have I'm our

global competitiveness

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depends on the next generation

scientists and engineers

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so it's really important that we inspire

the next generation rocket scientists in

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and environmental engineers a

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it's also critical to prepare the core

405

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the future skilled workforce that's

because

406

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percent of the jobs

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in this country and that includes just

basic

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living wage jobs are gonna require somebackground in science math

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or technology so is really becoming an

equity issue

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if the kids in school today don't get a

good education in math and science

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they're not going to be competitive even

for basic living wage jobs

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when they when they graduate a may be

more broadly

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science literacy is increasingly

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important we need to create signed

scientifically literate

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citizens am were surrounded today

416

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science and technology

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just open the paper log on your computer

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you can many many many other issues

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that faces today have their their roots

in science and technology

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so the students you're in school today

in elementary school middle school today

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I'm have to have a background in science

and math just be able to understand the

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issues


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that they're going to be faced with when

they're growing up be able to vote

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responsibly

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on those issues and in fact to be able

to make intelligent choices

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and decisions that affect their own

lives whether it's about to

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medicine whether it's about their

communities

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you know so it's is really very very

important on a lot of levels

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to improve science and math education in

this country

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and make sure that our students get a

good a

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a good education now I'm I said that

we'd been

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neglecting science and science education

on a national level as a national


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priority for

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for decades that is

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changing and it said changing quickly

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signs education is now in focus and

there are a lot of

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examples and that that I can give you is

we a

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as we go on what I'd like to do is

439

00:26:09,819 --> 00:26:14,720focus just a a little bit now on one

aspect of the problem

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that I'm particularly familiar with

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let me tell you what time is the some

other research says

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a you know there's there's some some

good news here and some bad news

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a in fourth grade according to the

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National Center for Education Statistics

students like science

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now they've been doing a surveys

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fourth graders in this country for

several decades in this hasn't changed

447

00:26:40,909 --> 00:26:44,350so don't think that this result is new

this result isn't new

448

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you can check 20-25 years ago and you

get the same

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essentially the same result than infourth grade

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sixty-eight percent of boys like science

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and sixty-six percent of girls will

self-report

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that they like science so they're too

good messages there

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in fourth grade fully two-thirds the


kids still like science

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you know it's a big percentage and the

second message is

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in fourth grade it's as many girls as

boys

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I but then we start to lose those

students from

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science and math they started disengage

they start to drift away

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and it starts happening right about in

fifth grade 6 grade

459

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boys

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and girls but it turns out that a

disproportionate number of girls and

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minority students

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disengage right at that at that time

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and the reasons are not reasons irv


aptitude they're not reasons

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a interest I mean after all in fourth

grade

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they were interested in science and

signs hasn't gotten less interesting

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on when they got to 5th yr fifth or

sixth grade other reasons tend to be

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societal I'm and there are a lot of a

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a lot of ways to think about that a no

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it may not be picture yourself as an

11-year-old

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11-year-old student maybe an 11-year-old

girl

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who says she wants to be an electrical

engineer well you may still get

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a slightly different reaction from your

friends from your peer group

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maybe even from your teachers are your


parents an 11-year-old boy who says

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exactly the same thing

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I'm it may not be cool to be the

smartest person your math class

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in your particular school it may not be

cool to be good

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00:28:31,519 --> 00:28:35,619in math a society also has

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a lotta love ingrained stereotypes about

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what a scientist looks like who does

science

480

00:28:42,409 --> 00:28:45,820

and what it's like to do science and

what science

481

00:28:45,819 --> 00:28:49,889

is and a lot of those stereotypes just

artwork just aren't right

482

00:28:49,890 --> 00:28:53,950

so up that typical stereotypical view

other

483

00:28:53,950 --> 00:28:58,200

the scientist is some you looking guy

that looks like Einstein wears a lab


484

00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,730

coat pocket projector in

485

00:28:59,730 --> 00:29:04,230

hasn't seen the light of day in a week

and doesn't communicate with people

486

00:29:04,230 --> 00:29:08,230

and that's what society thinks when you

say the word

487

00:29:08,230 --> 00:29:11,269

scientist and if you don't believe me

488

00:29:11,269 --> 00:29:15,379

I'm try this try this at home I'm try

this

489

00:29:15,380 --> 00:29:19,830

we do this with their teachers that we

train and we've done this with a lot of

490

00:29:19,829 --> 00:29:21,000

kids

491

00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,359

and ask your a

492

00:29:24,359 --> 00:29:28,759

to ask your teachers ask a group of

adults ask a group of teachers ask a

493

00:29:28,759 --> 00:29:29,269

group

494

00:29:29,269 --> 00:29:33,548


love twelve-year-old students to draw

scientist

495

00:29:33,548 --> 00:29:36,839

and what you get are the images

496

00:29:36,839 --> 00:29:41,668

that look like Einstein it look like you

know some some sort of geeky person

497

00:29:41,669 --> 00:29:46,470

I'm this is not surprising cuz I invite

you all do this

49800:29:46,470 --> 00:29:50,700

goaded go to Google go to Google Images

and type in the word scientist

499

00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:55,750

and see what you get I'm it's really

kinda surprising you get up you get page

500

00:29:55,750 --> 00:30:00,179have pictures that look like that

501

00:30:00,179 --> 00:30:04,269

which were drawn by one fifth-grade girl

and one

502

00:30:04,269 --> 00:30:07,400

actually both fifth-grade girls who drew

a

503

00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:10,809

those those pictures and the problem is

504

00:30:10,808 --> 00:30:14,190

that a if you're a 10-year-old girl


505

00:30:14,190 --> 00:30:18,669

or a 10-year-old boy this is not really

what you aspire to be

506

00:30:18,669 --> 00:30:22,509

when you grow up so it's right about

this time when

507

00:30:22,509 --> 00:30:26,079

when kids start to internalize the

messages that the culture is sending

508

00:30:26,079 --> 00:30:28,939them right around fifth grade 6 grade

seventh grade

509

00:30:28,940 --> 00:30:32,940

that they start to think about what what

society thinks

510

00:30:32,940 --> 00:30:36,409

a scientist isn't what society thinksscientists does

511

00:30:36,409 --> 00:30:40,000

and this is the start the store to the

image that they start to

512

00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,380

internalize and we don't you know not

513

00:30:43,380 --> 00:30:47,309

not all girls run away from science we

all know that there

514

00:30:47,308 --> 00:30:51,450

increasing numbers they're staying in


the pipeline for science and engineering

515

00:30:51,450 --> 00:30:54,490

but we still lose a large number of

students

516

00:30:54,490 --> 00:30:58,480

and a disproportionate number of girls

right in that age group

517

00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:02,150

largely because the societal issues

518

00:31:02,150 --> 00:31:05,409and it's not just the stereotypical view

of the scientist is the steric

519

00:31:05,409 --> 00:31:08,679

stereotypical view of science they don't

view it as

520

00:31:08,679 --> 00:31:12,700

collaborative they don't view it ascreative they think scientists work

521

00:31:12,700 --> 00:31:13,538

alone

522

00:31:13,538 --> 00:31:17,429

rather than in groups they think they

pictured being almost

523

00:31:17,429 --> 00:31:22,120

wrote going from the the first equation

on the page to the last they don't think

524

00:31:22,119 --> 00:31:22,778

I've it is


525

00:31:22,778 --> 00:31:26,880

as creative and most important they

don't think a bit as relevant

526

00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:31,130

to their world so in the abstract

there've been surveys that

527

00:31:31,130 --> 00:31:34,799

that revealed that but students will

tell you that

528

00:31:34,798 --> 00:31:37,908science and engineering are important

science technology engineering are

529

00:31:37,909 --> 00:31:39,000

important

530

00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,548

but they'll say it's important but it's

not important for me

531

00:31:43,548 --> 00:31:47,418

and that's a that's a very common

reaction for students in this

532

00:31:47,419 --> 00:31:50,640

fifth sixth seventh grade I am

533

00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,340

great range so a but you know that

534

00:31:54,339 --> 00:31:58,470

that's a a good part of the problem a

the combination


535

00:31:58,470 --> 00:32:02,069

a the fact that students have the wrong

536

00:32:02,069 --> 00:32:05,450

impression science and scientists

537

00:32:05,450 --> 00:32:09,890

and they've got misperceptions about

their own suitability for the subject it

538

00:32:09,890 --> 00:32:11,340

may be more important

53900:32:11,339 --> 00:32:14,839

a the potential importance and the

subjects for them

540

00:32:14,839 --> 00:32:18,569

in their futures no matter what careers

they choose to

541

00:32:18,569 --> 00:32:22,349to pursue a now the research on

542

00:32:22,349 --> 00:32:26,689

does show that you know they're fairly

easy ways to counter this time you can

543

00:32:26,690 --> 00:32:27,690

imagine what

544

00:32:27,690 --> 00:32:30,970

what a lot of them are it's really

important to start countering the

545

00:32:30,970 --> 00:32:32,269

stereotypes early


546

00:32:32,269 --> 00:32:36,308

and to do it as early as air elementary

school upper elementary school

547

00:32:36,308 --> 00:32:40,298

and middle school by introducing

students to

548

00:32:40,298 --> 00:32:44,168

a wide number a wide variety of

scientists

549

00:32:44,169 --> 00:32:48,590and a wide variety have a things that

scientists do

550

00:32:48,589 --> 00:32:51,639

so we need to see a diverse group of

scientists that

551

00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,409

by the way look to them like normalpeople

552

00:32:55,409 --> 00:32:59,679

that maybe have dogs and cats that used

to be kids

553

00:32:59,679 --> 00:33:02,809

on so that they can start humanizing

554

00:33:02,808 --> 00:33:06,359

these careers they need to see people

that use to look like them

555

00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:09,719

so that they can envision a path for


themselves

556

00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:12,730

into science in science or

557

00:33:12,730 --> 00:33:16,399

for engineering so you need you need be

able to expose

558

00:33:16,398 --> 00:33:19,509

a classroom love students to

559

00:33:19,509 --> 00:33:23,349

scientists have different backgroundsdifferent ethnicities

560

00:33:23,349 --> 00:33:27,148

and who are involved in different

different sorts in science

561

00:33:27,148 --> 00:33:31,048

science is different ages who took

different pathways into science and we

562

00:33:31,048 --> 00:33:31,369

have

563

00:33:31,369 --> 00:33:35,389

a who have a variety of other interests

as well as

564

00:33:35,390 --> 00:33:39,309

a as science I'm it's also important it

565

00:33:39,308 --> 00:33:45,240

to touch on that the divers and relevant

things that scientists to do


566

00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,740

teachers often don't know this and so

therefore this

567

00:33:48,740 --> 00:33:52,230

their students often don't know this

568

00:33:52,230 --> 00:33:57,009

on to give you an idea by the way up how

subtle summer these messages can be

569

00:33:57,009 --> 00:34:02,000

let me a that that start to dissuade

kids let me tell you about something

570

00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:02,690

that damn

571

00:34:02,690 --> 00:34:06,720

that actually happened to me a about

three years ago

57200:34:06,720 --> 00:34:10,849

so not decades ago three years ago

573

00:34:10,849 --> 00:34:13,929

I'm I was on a Cal Tech campus

574

00:34:13,929 --> 00:34:17,159

at 104 we were seller at times runs

575

00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:21,710

on signs festivals for girls we do these

on college campuses

576

00:34:21,710 --> 00:34:27,088

a on a weekend and this particular one


we held at Caltech we had about 1200

577

00:34:27,088 --> 00:34:30,349

Nov 5th through 8th grade girls and

their parents

578

00:34:30,349 --> 00:34:33,879

on the campus for the day week we claim

is that

579

00:34:33,878 --> 00:34:37,648

the highest density of females on the

Cal Tech campus

58000:34:37,648 --> 00:34:41,038

by the way but a at

581

00:34:41,039 --> 00:34:44,129

to a.m. towards the end of the

582

00:34:44,128 --> 00:34:47,199

a up the event out one

583

00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,278

very very very proud mother

584

00:34:50,278 --> 00:34:53,648

brought her 12-year-old daughter up to

me

585

00:34:53,648 --> 00:34:57,028

and this mother was not going to let me

get away

586

00:34:57,028 --> 00:35:01,599

and tell I knew that her daughter was a

brilliant mathematician


587

00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:06,289

she had not only one the school math

competition she had won the regional

588

00:35:06,289 --> 00:35:07,789

math competition

589

00:35:07,789 --> 00:35:12,520

and she was gonna go on to the state

math competition in this mother could

590

00:35:12,519 --> 00:35:14,619

not have been more proud

591

00:35:14,619 --> 00:35:18,789

a and I I congratulated the mother I

congratulated the daughter I wish her

592

00:35:18,789 --> 00:35:20,900

good luck in the state competition

593

00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:24,750and then another one on Tuesday it and I

don't know where she gets it

594

00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:30,079

I was never any good in math and I don't

know any women who are

595

00:35:30,079 --> 00:35:34,798

and it's like what this mother didn't

realize was that the message that she

596

00:35:34,798 --> 00:35:35,179

was

597

00:35:35,179 --> 00:35:38,480


completely unconsciously sending to our

daughter

598

00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:42,798

was you're not normal you're not like

every woman I know

599

00:35:42,798 --> 00:35:46,469

and you know what's the most important

thing when you're twelve on

600

00:35:46,469 --> 00:35:49,750

is to be normal so it may very well be

that that

601

00:35:49,750 --> 00:35:54,010

that young girl you know will will blast

ahead and become

602

00:35:54,010 --> 00:35:58,660

and a mathematician or it may be that in

a couple years

60300:35:58,659 --> 00:36:02,288

she'll start internalizing this these

messages

604

00:36:02,289 --> 00:36:06,690

and think that well she's also and she's

also good in French literature

605

00:36:06,690 --> 00:36:11,190

and that that is something that maybe

her mother thinks is more normal

606

00:36:11,190 --> 00:36:15,150

for I'm girl or or a woman to study

607


00:36:15,150 --> 00:36:19,380

so this gives you a sense up how subtle

some of these messages

608

00:36:19,380 --> 00:36:23,349

a.m. can can be and how difficult it is

to

609

00:36:23,349 --> 00:36:26,500

to get at this this problem

610

00:36:26,500 --> 00:36:31,659

well too add to address this and and

related issues this is kind of the

611

00:36:31,659 --> 00:36:33,078

motivation behind

612

00:36:33,079 --> 00:36:36,809

and my starting at Sally Ride science

net

613

00:36:36,809 --> 00:36:41,349that company we actually focus on this

age group a fourth through eighth grade

614

00:36:41,349 --> 00:36:45,278

and we think that a key part of our

mission is to make a difference in

615

00:36:45,278 --> 00:36:49,750

in girls' lives in that age group and in

society's perceptions

616

00:36:49,750 --> 00:36:53,449

have their roles in science in en masse

in

617


00:36:53,449 --> 00:36:57,868

and engineering one of the things I just

tell you about one of our programs we do

618

00:36:57,869 --> 00:36:58,798

a lot of our

619

00:36:58,798 --> 00:37:01,989

teacher training I'm so we train

620

00:37:01,989 --> 00:37:05,058

elementary school teachers and middle

school teachers

62100:37:05,059 --> 00:37:08,450

partly because these teachers are the

ones on the front lines as the

622

00:37:08,449 --> 00:37:11,969

the students start to internalize the

messages that we're getting

623

00:37:11,969 --> 00:37:15,139a and we try to train these two

624

00:37:15,139 --> 00:37:18,298

not try to we do trainees teachers on

625

00:37:18,298 --> 00:37:21,659

what make them aware of what the

research says I'm

626

00:37:21,659 --> 00:37:26,690

the reasons that that science is

important for all students

627

00:37:26,690 --> 00:37:30,960

I what the research says about when


students disengage

628

00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:35,179

from science and why they disengage from

science

629

00:37:35,179 --> 00:37:38,598

and make them aware of the effect that

subtle messages

630

00:37:38,599 --> 00:37:43,010

can have and then also most important

tell about what the research says about

63100:37:43,010 --> 00:37:44,619

the importance of countering

632

00:37:44,619 --> 00:37:48,539

these messages early and often in the

classroom

633

00:37:48,539 --> 00:37:52,440

and then giving them strategies thatthey can use with the lessons that they

634

00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:52,829

teach

635

00:37:52,829 --> 00:37:57,019

anyway to begin to to do this we give

them the strategies and the resources

636

00:37:57,018 --> 00:37:57,608

and

637

00:37:57,608 --> 00:38:01,288

in classroom materials to do that and I

included


638

00:38:01,289 --> 00:38:05,670

up couple examples a the classroom

resources that we give with we give them

639

00:38:05,670 --> 00:38:06,048

a

640

00:38:06,048 --> 00:38:10,000

some books that we created that are cool

careers and so there's a cool careers in

641

00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,599

engineering cool careers in

642

00:38:11,599 --> 00:38:15,539

physics cool careers in environmental

sciences Corp prism Medical Sciences

643

00:38:15,539 --> 00:38:19,900

and I thought I'd to show you one page

at random here

644

00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:25,880

I'm are completely random example have

an experimental physicist and

645

00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:30,028

there's a picture France's soccer team

down below so the idea is

646

00:38:30,028 --> 00:38:33,778

that tit to get across to kids at

francis's a

647

00:38:33,778 --> 00:38:38,650

a a real person and that she has

interests that are other than


648

00:38:38,650 --> 00:38:42,338

I'm experimental physics and that the

649

00:38:42,338 --> 00:38:45,518

that make it maker someone

650

00:38:45,518 --> 00:38:48,518

that the scientists can can relate to

651

00:38:48,518 --> 00:38:53,268

and in as you don't get away either this

is one from our environmental sciences

652

00:38:53,268 --> 00:38:54,118

book I think

653

00:38:54,119 --> 00:38:59,230

a so we've we featured a in as in

actually a few other people from

654

00:38:59,230 --> 00:39:02,880from Berkeley week we give a really wide

range

655

00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:07,568

have scientists and engineers very

diverse backgrounds mail and

656

00:39:07,568 --> 00:39:11,230

and female so that all the kids in the

class can pick out

657

00:39:11,230 --> 00:39:14,380

one or two or three faces that they can

658

00:39:14,380 --> 00:39:17,910


that they can relate to and it's at a

really

659

00:39:17,909 --> 00:39:21,460

important thing to do so the goal of our

program is to

660

00:39:21,460 --> 00:39:27,500

to get teachers and therefore it and I

let help them guide students to get from

661

00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:31,449

view of scientists on the left to the

view with scientists on the right

662

00:39:31,449 --> 00:39:35,529

something that they can see as a

interest for

663

00:39:35,530 --> 00:39:39,490

for themselves

664

00:39:39,489 --> 00:39:43,299I know I wanted to spend a just a little

bit I'm a.m.

665

00:39:43,300 --> 00:39:47,190

describing a couple have other a other

programs

666

00:39:47,190 --> 00:39:50,920

that are going on a couple it at the

national level

667

00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,940

and one back program here at berkeley

668

00:39:53,940 --> 00:39:57,250


that all get at the the issue

669

00:39:57,250 --> 00:40:00,949

for science education improving science

670

00:40:00,949 --> 00:40:05,789

science education I'm give you just a

couple examples

671

00:40:05,789 --> 00:40:09,070

I'm at that the national level a

672

00:40:09,070 --> 00:40:13,260

the president has has announced aactually a couple years ago

673

00:40:13,260 --> 00:40:16,640

and educate the program called educate

to innovate

674

00:40:16,639 --> 00:40:20,659

that is actually a White House

initiative that you can think Obama's is

675

00:40:20,659 --> 00:40:22,719

an umbrella organization

676

00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,819

on for Anna umbrella initiative that's

putting a very

677

00:40:26,820 --> 00:40:29,849

strong focus on K-twelve

678

00:40:29,849 --> 00:40:33,950

science and math education the intent is

to


679

00:40:33,949 --> 00:40:38,559

raise the visibility love the importance

of science and math education

680

00:40:38,559 --> 00:40:43,179

and to try to change the perspective

change the culture

681

00:40:43,179 --> 00:40:47,259

around science and math education in

this this country

682

00:40:47,260 --> 00:40:50,280

there they've done a lot of differentthings under

683

00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,570

under this program I won't go into that

684

00:40:53,570 --> 00:40:56,789

to some other things that they've

assembled under it but I I will just

685

00:40:56,789 --> 00:40:58,029

give you an example love

686

00:40:58,030 --> 00:41:01,410

one that I had a chance to participate

in and that's

687

00:41:01,409 --> 00:41:04,629

budget that is in the category of

688

00:41:04,630 --> 00:41:07,630

a cool thing that tries to change

689

00:41:07,630 --> 00:41:12,410


the perception science this was

astronomy night at the white house

690

00:41:12,409 --> 00:41:15,819

so picture in October evening bet 8

691

00:41:15,820 --> 00:41:22,140

eight at night after dark I'm telescopes

about 20-25 telescopes set up on the

692

00:41:22,139 --> 00:41:22,389

what

693

00:41:22,380 --> 00:41:26,519the South Lawn of the White House and

the only people there

694

00:41:26,519 --> 00:41:30,059

were a hundred and fifty middle school

students from

695

00:41:30,059 --> 00:41:33,529

I'm schools around Washington DC

696

00:41:33,530 --> 00:41:37,400

the president first lady and I their two

daughters

697

00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:40,460

and about 10 adults who weren't allowed

to say a thing

698

00:41:40,460 --> 00:41:43,659

except look through this and if the

telescope on

699

00:41:43,659 --> 00:41:48,409

and the whole point of this was to get


kids excited and to show kids

700

00:41:48,409 --> 00:41:52,259

that you know the present in the United

States cares

701

00:41:52,260 --> 00:41:55,780

about science education he wants them to

care

702

00:41:55,780 --> 00:41:59,780

about science education and the only

adult who talked that evening was the

70300:41:59,780 --> 00:42:00,519

president

704

00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:04,579

talking to the kids for about 10 minutes

telling them how important science and

705

00:42:04,579 --> 00:42:04,990

math

706

00:42:04,989 --> 00:42:08,319

education are on now

707

00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:12,240

that's just one event but it's the sort

above and

708

00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:15,949

that can start changing a changing that

709

00:42:15,949 --> 00:42:19,139

the culture more tangibly and

710


00:42:19,139 --> 00:42:22,409

the there's been a lot of money that was

put in

711

00:42:22,409 --> 00:42:27,118

a a lot a bit from stimulus money that

was put into science and math

712

00:42:27,119 --> 00:42:31,750

education K-twelve science and math

education probably the most visible was

713

00:42:31,750 --> 00:42:35,389

the race to the top competition among

states

714

00:42:35,389 --> 00:42:38,618

which I won't go into that many of you

know about this on

715

00:42:38,619 --> 00:42:43,230

it was 4.3 billion dollars that stated

to compete for

716

00:42:43,230 --> 00:42:47,300

and many many many

717

00:42:47,300 --> 00:42:50,470

points a huge advantage went to those

states

718

00:42:50,469 --> 00:42:54,429

that put a strong focus on K-twelve

science and math

719

00:42:54,429 --> 00:42:57,529

education in fact the states that have

been that


720

00:42:57,530 --> 00:43:00,930

that won that competition have very

strong components

721

00:43:00,929 --> 00:43:04,879

for science and math on

722

00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:09,010

one of the programs under a

723

00:43:09,010 --> 00:43:13,190

educate to innovate that I know quite a

bit about

724

00:43:13,190 --> 00:43:18,570

was a one that was spawned undereducated

innovate but then spun out

725

00:43:18,570 --> 00:43:21,780

it's a program called change the

equation or an initiative called change

72600:43:21,780 --> 00:43:22,720

the equation

727

00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,139

and it's a corporate initiative that's

led by CEOs

728

00:43:26,139 --> 00:43:31,150

around the country and who are aligning

and leveraging

729

00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:34,269

their efforts near company's efforts

730

00:43:34,269 --> 00:43:38,889


to transform science and math education

in the United States

731

00:43:38,889 --> 00:43:41,900

the board is composed of Craig Barrett

he's the

732

00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:46,099

the former CEO Intel I'm the vice chair

of the board Craig is that

733

00:43:46,099 --> 00:43:49,260

is the chair herschel a burns is the CEO

of

734

00:43:49,260 --> 00:43:52,680

Xerox Antonio per as the CEO of kodak

735

00:43:52,679 --> 00:43:57,368

I'm Glenn Britt CEO love a nap time

warner cable

736

00:43:57,369 --> 00:44:02,329I'm these there now 110 member companies

all signed up by their

737

00:44:02,329 --> 00:44:06,339

their CEOs and they consider this to be

a business imperative

738

00:44:06,338 --> 00:44:10,759

this is in lighten self-interest for

them they know that they need

739

00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,839

a scientists and engineers and

740

00:44:13,838 --> 00:44:18,599


in greater numbers and in enough

higher-quality

741

00:44:18,599 --> 00:44:22,800

van the system is sending their sending

their way

742

00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,890

am there the whole initiative

743

00:44:25,889 --> 00:44:30,670

is dedicated towards preparing students

for STEM related careers for science

74400:44:30,670 --> 00:44:31,700

engineering

745

00:44:31,699 --> 00:44:36,549

technology math related careers and

creating a scientifically literate

746

00:44:36,550 --> 00:44:40,630

an literate workforce on it finally letme tell you

747

00:44:40,630 --> 00:44:44,380

up a all a little bit about a program

that you probably know much more about

748

00:44:44,380 --> 00:44:45,599

than I do

749

00:44:45,599 --> 00:44:49,250

but I know quite a bit about it sister

program

750

00:44:49,250 --> 00:44:52,579

Cal teach which is a


751

00:44:52,579 --> 00:44:55,920

a a great program that

752

00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,559

gives undergraduate physics chemistry

753

00:44:59,559 --> 00:45:04,509

biology math engineering and geology

majors

754

00:45:04,510 --> 00:45:08,390

the opportunity to simultaneously take

education

755

00:45:08,389 --> 00:45:11,819

courses so that I'm

756

00:45:11,820 --> 00:45:16,109

within four years they can graduate with

both a degree in physics

75700:45:16,108 --> 00:45:20,500

and teaching credential essentially so

it really raises the

758

00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:23,889

and increases the number above

759

00:45:23,889 --> 00:45:28,139

highly qualified science and math

teachers

760

00:45:28,139 --> 00:45:31,239

that that the University produces

761

00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:36,588


this program unfamiliar with the out

with the program at UT Austin

762

00:45:36,588 --> 00:45:40,659

up where it before it began several

years ago and at UT Austin

763

00:45:40,659 --> 00:45:46,250

its M a increased by a factor of 20

764

00:45:46,250 --> 00:45:51,440

the number love undergraduate physical

sciences biological sciences engineering

76500:45:51,440 --> 00:45:52,750

math majors

766

00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:56,068

who go on to ge

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