TI senior vice president Melendy Lovett spoke at this morning first of a serious of breakfast events organized by Texas Instruments. The topic was "The Future of Education and Keeping Our Country Competitive." We need to keep the kids interested in math and science. And the drop off of interest happen somewhere in middle school, starting with 5th through 8th grade. Most of the engineers in the world by the year 2025 will be in Asia. If we are to keep the pace of technological invention in the US, we need to keep the pipeline filled with kids interested in math and science throughout middle school, taking advance placement (AP) math and science classes in high school, majoring in math and science in college, and go on to graduate school and post graduate research.