events of the year, science fair. the white house science fair today. the president got to meet geeky superstars like these teenagers who built a catapult to help you practice your basketball shooting technique. also, this florida 12-year-old who invented a type of sandless sandbag. it s made with polymers that expand when wet, which makes way more sense than a sandbag than sand does. polymers. why didn t we do that before? as you see here, this is what a polymer looks like when it s all curled up. but then when you add water, it straightens out with hydrogen bonding and ecke spands lixpand. you want to try? i do. i actually have one of these. sometimes i just stare at them in space. i know. sometimes in the oval office, i were just look at one of these. this was the fourth time the white house has hosted its own science fair, honoring about 100 students from across the country today. but there was one field of science not represented at the
to be the co-host. you may have willie or you used to. we got luke. okay. speaking of awkward moments we had one today with the president. not we personally but he got frustrated during the white house science fair. you know how stressful those events can be. when a reporter tried to ask president obama about some breaking news on syria. watch. i m sorry. we re at a science fair. come on. come on. thank you. a little snippy. why is he so snippy? perhaps she s being too bossy. she was the pool reporter. she was assigned to be there. the science fair was wrapping up. the president was exiting. we knew he was going to make remarks about afghanistan. she said what about syria? and he did not like her trying to do that. didn t like it a bit.
to be the co-host. you may have willie or you used to. we got luke. okay. speaking of awkward moments we had one today with the president. not we personally but he got frustrated during the white house science fair. you know how stressful those events can be. when a reporter tried to ask president obama about some breaking news on syria. watch. i m sorry. we re at a science fair. come on. come on. thank you. a little snippy. why is he so snippy? perhaps she s being too bossy. she was the pool reporter. she was assigned to be there. the science fair was wrapping up. the president was exiting. we knew he was going to make remarks about afghanistan. she said what about syria? and he did not like her trying to do that. didn t like it a bit.
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, 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
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