Innovation comes out of great human ingenuity and very personal passions.

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.

The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

Human ingenuity – creation and destruction.

People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.