first regional robot competition. first, stands for for inspiration and recognition of science and technology. students are using a standard kit and organizing recyclable material. the winner gets a shot at a national competition and will be eligible for $20 million in scholarship money. wow. good for them. and the world s largest particle accelerator is back in action after a two-year shut down for upgrades. scientists at the european organization for nuclear research used the clier to discover a subatomic particle in 2013. now they hope to explore all sorts of new physics clus including a first ever glimpse at dark matter. it s going to take up to two months to get the accelerator working full speed again. i don t understand anything you just said. fascinating pictures, i ll
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build robots, and they want to win. they want to really win. what we wanted to do was look at their sort of different socioeconomic status and different students but also through the eyes of this robotics competition which is called first, see, is where you come from and the kind of education you get going to make it possible for you to succeed in a competition like this and really examine overall opportunities in education for american students. what we ve discovered is that some of the statistics that we know are just dire. for example, america ranks 17th in science. 25th in math when you compare it to all industrialized nations. that s terrible. but if you poll people, you know what they say? we rank one or two. so not only are we low on the totem pole, we re also way off in where we think we are. that s a huge problem. that is a huge problem. and just going back to these three students, they come from very different backgrounds and very different, you know, socioeconomic backgrou
and we need to train them to be strong in s.t.e.m., science, technology, education and math. and it is difficult for the kids to buy into them, because the kids find them difficult or not sexy frankly, sometimes. well, that is where the robot competition comes into play, because people find it exciting just like football competition, which is exciting, so you do everything that you need to win, and train and prepare and make sure you are in good shape and all of the things that go to the competition. kids who win a robot competition, and these are exciting because 50,000 people cheering in the stands is amazing thing these kids if they want to win, they have to build the best robot, and nay have to understand calculus, and physics and be good students of this, so that the theory is to make it cool and interest, and these kids certainly who are involved in this first competition have absolutely bought into that. at the end of the day, all of the kids the same? you kind of highligh
the killing of osama bin laden, new details. we have correspondents covering all angles. they ll join us at the top of the hour. but first politics. ron paul wants president obama s job. he announced his intentions earlier today and plans a news conference at the top of the hour. the republican congressman joins newt gingrich in the gop race for the white house. a long time political observer, broadcaster and businessman has a new book, fail up, lessons from building successes from failure. tavis, welcome. good to be on. i want to talk about your book in a little bit, but first politics. ron paul just announced p about should president obama be concerned? i m sure the white house is concerned about any potential candidate. ron paul of course has run before. has a loyal following and what s been fascinate for me is how much he has a loyal following amongst young people and the money that he can raise. so he s a threat obviously on a certain level. but at the same time,