[EAS]High Tech? Well, like, no.

[pjk]

Subject:   High Tech? Well, like, no.

(from NewsScan Daily, 13 March 2002)
<http://www.newsscan.com/>

DO VALLEY TEENS WANT HIGH TECH CAREERS? WELL, LIKE, NO.
A study of Silicon Valley 8th- and 11th-grade school children,
virtually  all of whom had access to computers, found that only a
third of them are  interested in pursuing the kind of high-tech
careers for which the Valley  is world-famous. Many of them regarded
technology careers as boring or intimidating, and one young girl
whose mother worked at a high-tech company  said, "Every time I go
visit her there, I see these guys. They're losing their hair; they're
really stressed out." The report was prepared for Joint  Venture:
Silicon Valley Network, and the chairman of that organization said:
"By eighth grade, people don't know what they want to do, but they do 
know what they don't want to do." (San Jose Mercury News 12 Mar 2002)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/2847753.htm

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A Yale engineering degree, embedded in a rich, socially aware, liberal
arts setting, ought to be something we can make attractive to those
teens.  --PJK