At the White House Science Fair, President Obama intently pedals a bicycle connected to a water filtration system designed by two teenage girls, as they explain the science to him. [Video here.] President Obama said to participants at the event:
"We celebrate our great football players … and we celebrate outstanding musicians, and that's all appropriate. But we've got to make sure that we're also celebrating, every single day in our schools, in our classrooms and in our country, the outstanding contributions that scientists and engineers and mathematicians and engineers are providing to us every single day."I continue to love every single personal interaction this President has with kids.
"We want you to know that you've got a whole country behind you as you pursue your dreams," he said. "And your success is going to be our success, as well. So, way to go."
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