this is texas middle school students that turned programming into an app to help a visually impaired classmate. it s called hello avi. it s not only won the app challenge, but the all girl group, yes, all girl group, won a trip to the white house science fair. it satisfies me that, you know, i m not just doing stuff for myself, but i can do stuff for other people. what you can do with regular kids, you give them time, you make them believe they can and they can. if they can do this, if they can problem solve in this manner for this school project, they have the road ahead of them paved in gold. the app is going to be available this month in google play at no charge. congratulations to them. all girl team. and middle schoolers. impressive. they are so far ahead of me.
it s meow mix mealtime. with wholesome ingredients and irresistible taste, no wonder it s the only one cats ask for by name. we ve got to have better research, better data, better safety equipment, better protocols. we ve got to have every parent and coach and teacher recognize the signs of concussions, and we need more athletes to understand how important it is to do what we can to prevent injuries and to admit them when they do happen. president obama at the white house earlier this week for the concussion summit. it is something that we talk a lot about on this show, safety in sports. this week it got a double dose of publicity from the president. athletes and their families went to d.c. to raise awareness about brain health. earlier, the president welcomed kids from around the country for the annual white house science fair. all of this happened on the same day. one invention that caught his eye was the concussion cushion, a new type of football helmet
a fair shake. another lawmaker warned that teaching global warming as fact would wreck the economy in a state that produces nearly 40% of the nation s coal. 11 states have adopted the next generation standards, but they face strong opposition from lawmakers in red states like oklahoma, where a house committee rejected the standards, with representative mark mccullough wondering whether the hyperbole relative to climate change could be potentially utilized to implicate into some pretty young impressionable minds. some of those minds were in washington today for the white house science fair which shows just how much kids can do when you let them use science a inspiration instead of denying them access to the accumulated knowledge of earlier generations. so as you see here, this is what it looks like when it s all curled up. but then when you add water, it straightens out and expands like this. so you want to try? yeah, i do. i actually have one of these. oh, you do? they re very
we do not accept the vast developments that have been made in science and technology and make sure that we re teaching that to our students, they re not going to be competitive, and the rest of the world, asian countries in particular, are moving ahead of us now in terms of where they stand in science and technology. mary, you were at the white house today. lord knows i love a good science fair. i really do actually. when i heard about white house science fair, i had an image of him next to a baking soda volcano, i thought would be awesome if he was participating. it was like that. classic science fair, someone stayed up glue sticking bar charts onto poster board. you made this movie about some kids who discovered science in an unexpected way. what s the story? underwater dreams is about four undocumented boys actually
it s a completely different world. and if we do not accept that, if we do not accept the vast developments that have been made in science and technology and make sure that we re teaching that to our students, they re not going to be competitive in the rest of the world. the asian countries in particular are actually moving ahead of us now in terms of where they stand in science and technology. mary, you were at the white house today. i love lord knows i love a good science fair. i really do. who doesn t, right? actually, when i heard about the white house science fair, i had an image of barack obama standing next to a baking soda volcano. i thought that would be really awesome if he was participating. it was pretty much like that, by the way. that s classic science fair. someone stayed up late at night glue-sticking bar charts on to poster board. you have made this movie about some kids who kind of discovered science in this really unexpected way. what is the story? so u