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href="/web/20120316101458/http://www.bgca.org/Pages/index.aspx">BGCA.org</a></span><span> :: </span><span><a class="ms-sitemapdirectional" href="/web/20120316101458/http://www.bgca.org/newsevents/Pages/NewsEvents.aspx">News & Events</a></span><span> :: </span><span class="BCcurrent">The Scoop</span><a id="ctl00_dotORGBreadcrumbs_siteMapPath_SkipLink"></a></span></div></td></tr>   <tr> <td class="WhiteBackgroundImage"> <div id="ORGColumns"> <div id="OrgCol1"> <div id="ORGMainHeadline"> Wouldn't It Be Cool If ...</div> <div id="ORGMainSubhead"> BGCA joins Time Warner Cable and singer/songwriter will.i.am to promote STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects to our nation's young people. </div> <div id="ORGPageContent"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" id="ORGPageImage"> <tr><td></td></tr> <tr><td> <img alt="Wouldn't It Be Cool If ..." border="0" src="/web/20120316101458im_/http://www.bgca.org/PublishingImages/WIBCI_Article_logo_2012.jpg" style="BORDER: 0px solid; "> </td></tr> <tr><td id="ORGPageImageCaption"> </td></tr> </table> <font color="#666666">BGCA Joins Time Warner Cable and Black Eyed Peas frontman will</font>.i.am to promote <em>Wouldn’t It Be Cool If…, </em>a national campaign to get more youth thinking about science and math in a fun, innovative way through an ideation competition. <p></p> <p><i>Wouldn’t It Be Cool If… </i>challenges youth ages 10-15 to dream up the coolest thing to make their life, community or even the world more awesome, and then to think about how science and math could help bring those ideas to life. Now through March 28, 2012, eligible youth can submit their ideas at <a title="Wouldn't it be cool if ..." href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120316101458/http://www.wouldntitbecoolif.com/" target="_blank">www.wouldntitbecoolif.com</a>.</p> <p>80 percent of jobs created in the next decade will require some form of math and science skills<a title="" href="/web/20120316101458/http://www.bgca.org/newsevents/TheScoop/Pages/WIBCI.aspx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1"><sup>[1]</sup></a>, and yet 61 percent of middle school students would rather take out the garbage than do their math homework<a title="" href="/web/20120316101458/http://www.bgca.org/newsevents/TheScoop/Pages/WIBCI.aspx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2"><sup>[2]</sup></a>. A key goal of <i>Wouldn’t It Be Cool If…</i> is to ensure students are engaged and interested in STEM subjects.</p> <p>The campaign is jointly presented by Time Warner Cable’s philanthropic STEM initiative, <i>Connect a Million Minds</i>, and i.am FIRST, founded by artist, entertainer and entrepreneur will.i.am. Artist will.i.am will appear in a national public service announcement that encourages kids to submit their cool ideas online.</p> <p align="center"> <table style="width:400px" summary=""> <tbody> <tr> <td><img style="border-bottom:0px solid;border-left:0px solid;border-top:0px solid;border-right:0px solid" border="0" alt="Wouldn't It Be Cool If ..." src="/web/20120316101458im_/http://www.bgca.org/PublishingImages/WIBCI_NYC_2012.jpg"> </td></tr> <tr> <td> <div align="left">Time Warner Cable representatives help youth come up with invention ideas during a brainstorming event for the <em>Wouldn't It Be Cool If... </em>contest at The Children's Aid Society's Dunlevy Milbank Center in New York. 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