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President to call Space Station 5PM tonight, Joined by STEM Students |
This evening at 5:15 EST, President Obama will be joined by Congressional leaders and middle school students in the Roosevelt Room of the White House to congratulate the astronaut crews of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavour on their successful ongoing mission.
Media attendance will be limited to a White House pool spray but other media and the public will be able to watch a live videostream of the event at www.whitehouse.gov/live or embed the livestream on their own sites using the embed code available on www.whitehouse.gov/live by clicking “Share” listed next to the event.
The President will be joined by twelve middle school students from Michigan, Florida, North Carolina and Nebraska. These students are in Washington D.C. this week as leaders of four of the 39 teams participating in the “Future City” engineering competition hosted by National Engineers Week. The schools represented are Birney Middle School (Detroit, MI), Elkhorn Middle School (Omaha, NE), St. Thomas the Apostle (Miami, FL), and Davidson IB Middle School (Davidson, NC).
Building on the President's "Educate to Innovate" campaign and his emphasis on inspiring young adults to pursue excellence in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), the students are all leaders of teams that are finalists in the engineering competition, which included 34,000 7th and 8th graders from across the nation and called for innovative ideas and designs for a city of tomorrow. The North Carolina team was the overall winner of the national competition.
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