There's nothing wrong with nerds. I am one. There aren't enough of us anymore.

We have believed for a long, long time that the preparation for science engineering, math technology education is something that every student needs to be really deeply immersed in. We can no longer depend in our society on the self-selected people to do this. There are just not enough people that are self-selecting to do this out of the meager exposures we've given them.

The ones that have been self-selecting are the people we call nerds in our society. They're the ones that keep us from freezing to death in the dark. But we need more. We need every young person who is interested even moderately in technical things to be engaged.

He was very stern with us.

This is the US version of Echelon.

It couldn't be better than this. It gives us the edge to go back to St Louis, but you still have to win two games.