Dear Gene, You wrote: On 2011/02/14, at 09:44 , <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Today's News=Gazette announced a meeting (scheduled for Feb 16) on the STEM > Initiative as it is to be applied in a local "magnet" school this Fall. > > An NSF grant of five million dollars over five years supports this local > initiative between the University of Illinois and a local elementary magnet > school. > > I'm trying to determine the emphasis (if any) on SI-only in this program. > > Gene. As a reminder, it is possible for highly learned, highly intelligent, and highly qualified scientists, and engineers not to notice that they are using the metric system -- or to use the occasion to pretend that the metric system does not exist in the USA. Recall that I wrote about this at the time of the 2008 election in the USA. The article was called "The metrication elephant" and you can find it at http://www.metricationmatters.com/docs/AMetricationElephant.pdf Cheers, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, see http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html Hear Pat speak at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lshRAPvPZY PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
