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please give a warm welcome

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for

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all right all right all right how you

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doing more than 250 students joined with

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astronaut leland melvin and

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administrator charles bolden at the jet

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propulsion laboratory

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to help kick off nasa's summer of

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innovation what we want to do this

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summer through the summer of innovation

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is take young men and women like malik

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and we want to help them understand yes

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science and math may be difficult but

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you can learn it the education

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initiative will use the excitement and

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inspiration of nasa missions to engage

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thousands of middle school students and

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teachers nationwide in stimulating math

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and science-based programs during the

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summer months a time when learning

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skills often decline

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so in the summer time we really have to

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think about how are we being active with

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our brains

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and our bodies we have to keep moving

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and keep learning these youngsters many

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of them from minority and low-income

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households rubbed elbows with other

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astronauts engineers and scientists but

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we did study hard we stayed in school

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and i encourage you to find something

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that you love and to pursue it with all

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of your heart they also participated in

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interactive and educational activities

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including a visit with the next mars

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rover curiosity scheduled to launch in

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2011. how many girls here think robotics

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is cool

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lots of you how many of you girls think

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that you could do robotics just as well

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as any of the boys in this room

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oh that's what i like to see getting

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that robot down off that lander

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i did that

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i told that robot how to get up there

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and i told it how to get back now oh yes

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thank you very much the summer of

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innovation includes summer learning

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programs managed by each of nasa's 10

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centers the incorporation of nasa

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materials into existing non-nasa summer

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school curricula

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and partnering with other federal

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agencies to promote education in science

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technology engineering and math

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and you don't have to be an astronaut to

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do cool things for nasa if you're good