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Announcement: The American Innovation Proclamation
TAP2015 03/13/07
On March 13, Tapping America's Potential (TAP) and more than 270 prominent business and higher education leaders unveiled The American Innovation Proclamation, which calls upon Congress to:

• Renew America's commitment to discovery.
• Improve student achievement in math and science.
• Welcome highly educated foreign professionals.
• Make permanent a strengthened R&D Tax Credit.

http://www.tap2015.org/resource/proclamation/index.html

Article: Initiative will pay students to pass AP tests
Wall Street Journal 03/09/07 PDF attached
...A new initiative, aimed at encouraging careers in math and science, plans to replicate these AP bonuses across the country.
Teachers get them, too - at times, $5,000 annually or more - for helping their kids pass AP classes in math, science and
English. The money is provided by a network of private donors...

The National Math and Science Initiative, expected to be announced today, is a nonprofit project whose leaders include former high-ranking U.S. Department of Education official Tom Luce, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Charles Vest, and College Board head Gaston Caperton. It aims to build on both the Texas AP-incentive effort and a University of Texas program that that encourages college students to become math and science teachers?

To launch the initiative, Exxon Mobil Corp. is contributing $125 million, the biggest single gift in the oil giant's history. The leaders of the initiative are hoping to raise a total of $900 million, including the Exxon gift, donations from other foundations and matching government funds. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is considering joining the effort.

Article: 'Making the case' to the state
Berkshire Eagle 03/08/07
Article about MCLA President Mary Grant which references both the Goddard Council, the STEM Pipeline Fund and the Berkshire region's science and engineering fairs. http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_5382144

Article: WPI-backed high schoolers win regional FIRST challenge -- again
Mass High Tech 03/08/07
A Worcester Polytechnic Institute-sponsored high school student team has received the top honor for the second year in a row during a regional competition of the FIRST Robotics Challenge. http://masshightech.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2007/03/05/daily47.html?jst=b_ln_hl

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