NASA Administrator Bolden, President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness Launch 'Stay With It' Campaign on Facebook

March 13, 2012

David Weaver
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1600
david.s.weaver@nasa.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-043

NASA ADMINISTRATOR BOLDEN, PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL ON JOBS AND COMPETITIVENESS LAUNCH 'STAY WITH IT' CAMPAIGN ON FACEBOOK

WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will join leaders of
the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness to launch the
STAY WITH IT campaign with a Facebook Live discussion on Wednesday,
March 14, at 3 p.m. EDT at the Georgia Institute of Technology
(Georgia Tech) in Atlanta.

STAY WITH IT is the first student outreach campaign connecting
engineering students with experienced engineers, role models and
peers to motivate them to stay in their field of study and graduate
with an engineering degree.

Bolden will be joined by Paul Otellini, president and CEO of the Intel
Corporation and member of the President's Council on Jobs and
Competitiveness; Gary May, dean of engineering at Georgia Tech; Guy
Primus, chief operating officer of Overbrook Entertainment; Sherita
Ceasar, vice president NETO P&I National Video Deployment Engineering
at Comcast; Serkan Piantino, Engineering manager at Facebook; and
Maggie Johnson, director of education and university relations for
Google.

Colleges and universities around the country will host viewing
parties, including California State University at Sacramento, Cornell
University, Duke University, New York Institute of Technology -
Manhattan Campus, North Carolina State University, Santa Clara
University, University of California at Berkeley, University of
Florida, University of Hawaii, University of Kentucky, University of
Maryland, University of Nevada, Reno and Virginia Tech.

This event is open to pre-credentialed news media. Reporters
interested in covering the event should RVSP at:

http://go.nasa.gov/xNC6yw

Those unable to attend the event can watch the live stream at:

http://www.facebook.com/Engineering

For more information about the President's Council on Jobs and
Competitiveness, visit:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/advisory-boards/jobs-council

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