Champion S&T in California. Create a legacy as the state's champion for excellence in science and technology education, research, and innovation.

Position California as the national leader in S&T.

• Create various state, national and international forums to position California at the vanguard of S&T research, discovery and innovation and improving K-12 science and mathematics education, with a focus on maintaining the state's leadership in an increasingly competitive world. Develop messages about S&T as a way to address critical issues in the state, such as energy, healthcare, transportation, advanced manufacturing, and infrastructure.

Raise the stature of S&T careers to make them more attractive.

• Use the Governor's unique blend of experience as an actor, producer and political leader to exploit California's central, unique roles in both the entertainment and sports industries and in science and technology.
• Establish a small working group of leaders from the entertainment industry and S&T to raise the visibility and stature of research and technical careers. Integrate S&T and artistic creative processes to make S&T careers "cool" and highly visible.
• Advocate the use of storytelling skills to engage culturally and ethnically diverse students and capture their imagination in S&T. Illustrate how S&T enables the visualization of creative storytelling in Hollywood, and empower educators to inspire the next generation of S&T leaders by using state-of-the art pedagogy and information technologies.

Recognize California's leadership in S&T.

• Establish an annual "California Innovation Awards" to publicly celebrate and honor Californians in STEM fields of importance to the state - Nobel laureates, honored teachers, innovation leaders - who have made major impacts in their fields. The competition shall be open to nominees from both the public and private sectors. Hold an "academy awards" like event seeded with well-known public figures, actors, artists and sports stars as participants/co-hosts.
• Work with the entertainment industry and involve well-known Hollywood role models and star athletes to develop a public information campaign that communicates key messages about STEM education, teaching, research and innovation and how they impact the state's economy.

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