Tapping America's PotentialOur Goal: Double the number of science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduates with bachelor's degrees by 2015.

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Editorial and Op-ed Support June 2008

June 26, 2008 – Washington Post – “Don’t Build a Wall Against Talent”
Fifty years ago, Jack Kilby, who grew up in Great Bend, Kan., took the electrical engineering knowledge he acquired as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois and as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin to Dallas, to Texas Instruments, where he helped invent the modern world as we routinely experience and manipulate it. Working with improvised equipment, he created the first electronic circuit in which all the components fit on a single piece of semiconductor material half the size of a paper clip.

June 2, 2008 - Washington Times – “A needed stimulus: improving technology infrastructure
Rhett Dawson, president of the Information Technology Industry Council, authored an op-ed calling for crucial improvements in the technological infrastructure of the U.S. for economic growth and competitiveness.

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