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8 Americans Wrote to the White House About Their Lives. We Want You to Hear Their Stories:
Posted by on January 20, 2015 at 11:03 AM ESTThis year, Jason Gibson, a wounded warrior, and some of the other incredible Americans who have written us letters to the White House will join the First Lady in watching the President deliver his State of the Union address at the Capitol.
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Meet the First Lady's Guests at This Year's State of the Union:
Posted by on January 19, 2015 at 7:15 AM ESTFind out who First Lady Michelle Obama invited to join her at the 2015 State of the Union address.
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Meet William Elder, Jr., a Guest of the First Lady at the State of the Union
Posted by on January 19, 2015 at 7:15 AM ESTThanks to precision medicine, Bill Elder, a Cystic Fibrosis patient, plans to live a very full life as a family physician.
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Meet Staff Sergeant Jason Gibson, a Guest of the First Lady at the State of the Union
Posted by on January 17, 2015 at 8:00 AM ESTStaff Sergeant Jason Gibson is joining the First Lady as a guest at the 2015 State of the Union Address on January 20.
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What They're Saying About the President's Free Community College Proposal
Posted by on January 9, 2015 at 6:42 PM ESTThe President's "America's College Promise" proposal has received an overwhelmingly positive response. Here's what people are saying about the proposal.
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STEM for Students on the Silver Screen
Posted by on December 12, 2014 at 9:48 AM ESTOn Wednesday evening, the White House welcomed dozens of eager middle-school, high-school and college students to a special Computer Science Heroes Film Festival that recognized outstanding women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The film festival was part of this week’s White House celebration of Computer Science Education Week.
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Talk With Me Baby! Increasing Early Learning Opportunities for Every Child in Georgia
Posted by on December 12, 2014 at 9:36 AM ESTThis week, President Obama hosted the White House Summit on Early Childhood Education. OSTP's Maya Shankar recently sat down with Arianne Weldon, Director of the Get Georgia Reading Campaign and member of the team guiding the Georgia’s Talk With Me Baby initiative, an effort to “bridge the word gap” that develops between poor children and their more affluent peers during the first years of life. Arianne told Maya a little bit about her team’s work, new developments, and future plans.
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Making Makers in Cleveland
Posted by on December 11, 2014 at 12:16 PM ESTRecently, OSTP's Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation Tom Kalil spoke with Ian Charnas, manager of Case Western Reserve University’s think[box]-- a makerspace and innovation center designed to provide students, staff, faculty and members of the public with the tools they need to create, build and invent.
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Pay for Success: Spreading What Works and Sharing What We Know Across the U.S.
Posted by on December 4, 2014 at 4:36 PM ESTIn 2012, President Obama prioritized Pay for Success (PFS) as one of the key strategies in his second-term social innovation agenda. PFS is a rapidly expanding approach to funding social services that is making great progress around the country.
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America’s Next Top Turkey: Vote for the 2014 National Thanksgiving Turkey
Posted by on November 26, 2014 at 9:30 AM ESTOn Wednesday, November 26th, President Obama will announce the National Thanksgiving Turkey and, once again, we’re inviting the American people to decide which bird takes the title.
