U.S. News & World Report

There is still much work needed to fill the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs gap in the United States, more than 20 years after the Foundation for Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) was launched, according to testimony founder Dean Kamen gave Thursday before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's Subcommittee on Research and Technology. "I always believed that I would run out of the mentors and corporate sponsors long before we satisfied the needs in all the schools," Kamen said. "But what we ran out of was the ability for the schools, especially the ones that need us most, to be able to participate in this, even though corporate America is doing all the heavy lifting." To read further, please visit http://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2014/01/09/stem-entrepreneur-government-and-corporations-should-work-together-to-help-schools.