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  • President Obama Announces New Plan to Create STEM Master Teaching Corps

    The Obama Administration announces the President’s plan to create a national Science, Math, Technology, and Engineering (STEM) Master Teacher Corps. Over the next four years the Corps will expand to include 10,000 of the best STEM teachers in the nation.


  • Open Data for College Affordability and Better Student Outcomes

    The Obama Administration recently launched the Education Data Initiative to help students and their families benefit from innovation enabled by open data from the US government and other sources.


  • Open Data for a Clean, Secure Energy Future

    The Obama Administration recently launched a series of Open Data Initiatives—in health, public safety, education, and energy. The Energy Data Initiative (EDI) aims to help Americans benefit from entrepreneurial innovation enabled by open energy data from the US government and other sources. By making energy data available to entrepreneurs, new products and services will continue to emerge to help American families and business save energy and money, protect the environment, and ensure a reliable energy future.


  • From the Archives: President Obama Hosts a Twitter Town Hall

    One year ago today, the White House held our first-ever Tweet-up, hosted by the President.


  • @TechGirls: Brilliant, Fearless and Passionate

    A group of young women from the Middle East and North Africa interested in careers in science and technology – also known as TechGirls – visited the White House for an interactive discussion about the ways women can utilize innovation and technology to make a difference in the world


  • Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden Honor Nation’s Top Science and Math Teachers

    A group of nearly 100 junior high and high school teachers from across the country received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) this week. Today, the Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden, a longtime educator, met with these teachers at the White House to thank them for their commitment to our Nation’s students.


  • A Big Step Forward For Actors’ Rights Around the World

    Today in Beijing, China, the United States and the other member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) finalized an important new treaty to strengthen the economic rights of film actors and other performers.


  • Help Us Shape Our Strategy for Intellectual Property Enforcement

    Submit your ideas to shape the future of intellectual property enforcement.


  • The Growing Open Government Movement

    The recently launched Open Government Platform aims to promote government transparency and citizen engagement on a global scale.


  • Talking to Explorers Underwater

    Yesterday I placed a call to the explorers currently undertaking a 12-day mission beneath the waves of the Florida Keys to help us test and prove concepts for outer space missions. The 16th crew of NASA's Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) is focusing their activities on helping us understand what a mission to an asteroid will be like.


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