Trump to Hold Annual Science Fair

The president has announced that he will continue the Obama-era tradition of showcasing school children’s science projects at the White House.

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President Barack Obama talks with Evan Jackson, 10, Alec Jackson, 8, and Caleb Robinson, 8, from McDonough, Georgia, while looking at exhibits at the White House Science Fair in the State Dining Room, April 22, 2013.WIKIMEDIA, WHITE HOUSE/CHUCK KENNEDY

As demonstrators were preparing to descend upon Washington, DC, and other cities around the country and world for last weekend’s March for Science, a White House official told CBS News that President Donald Trump would be following in the footsteps of his predecessor, Barack Obama, by holding a science fair at the White House sometime in the near future.

President Obama hosted the first White House science fair in 2010, and children from all over the country traveled to the nation’s capital to show off their projects annually for the subsequent six years. Some of the highlights, conceived by science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students, included a cushion designed to lessen the risk of concussions in student athletes, a diagnostic test for Ebola, and ...

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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