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<div style="font-family:arial;color:black;font-size:10pt;"> Friends:<br>
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 Ohio’s high school students will compete for more than $1.6 million in awards and scholarships in the 2014-2015 school year from a STEM commercialization and entrepreneurship plan competition through a new program of the Ohio Board of Regents (OBR) and The Ohio Academy of Science (OAS). The balance of the $5 million project funding will underwrite related grassroots programs that include regional STEM commercialization and entrepreneurship forums, a real-world student mentor program and online courses that feature an extensive array of STEM research and development initiatives.<br>
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 Entitled “<b>Believe in Ohio–A STEM Bridge to Ohio’s Innovation Economy of the Future</b>”, the program will develop a statewide youth entrepreneurial STEM ecosystem to support the developing innovation economy of the State of Ohio.<br>
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 <b>Please see the attached 4-page Word document for complete details.</b><br>
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 Thanks to<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> Dr. Lynn E. Elfner, CEO EMERITUS,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> Acting Editor, The Ohio Journal of Science,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> The Ohio Academy of Science,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">1500 W. 3rd Ave., Suite 228,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> Columbus, OH 43212-2817 (</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">office - 614-488-2228;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> fax - 614-488-7629;</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"> email - </span><a href="mailto:oas@iwaynet.net" title="mailto:oas@iwaynet.net"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">oas@iwaynet.net</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"></span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ohiosci.org/" title="http://www.ohiosci.org/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:">www.ohiosci.org</span></a>) for this announcement.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
Art Snyder<br>
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