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Saturday, June 29, 2013
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This morning, 50 Kansas City middle and high school students met the First Lady of the United States — via a Google Fiber connection at the Fiber Space. All week, Mrs. Obama has been traveling on a White House Tour through Africa, talking to and hearing from young people about the importance of education. Today, she heard from students right here in KC.
At 8:30 a.m. Central Time, the First Lady hosted a Google+ Hangout On Air from Johannesburg, South Africa connecting to students in L.A., Houston, New York, and Kansas City. The students and Mrs. Obama got the chance to talk with one another directly, sharing ideas about education in their countries face-to-face-to-face; a bit like a 21st-Century pen pal program.
The group of KC students that "met" the First Lady are spending their summer breaks building motors, programming robots and developing web and mobile apps; they’re students who are attending several KC STEM Alliance camps to learn about science, technology, engineering and math.
You can see the whole video from the event
here
. Many thanks to the
KC STEM Alliance
, the
Office of the First Lady
and all of our STEM campers for letting us be a part of this transatlantic discussion.
Posted by Rachel Hack, Google Fiber Community Manager
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author.name: Rachel Hack
author.title: Community Manager
category: community_impact
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