NASA Chief Bolden: STEM Interest Needed to Reach Mars By 2030s

"Your space agency is on a journey to Mars. We need kids to create new tech that we are missing," Bolden said. "We can't get to Mars based on what we have today. We can go back to the moon and we will, but we have to go to Mars." Interactive projects like working on robots or partnering with NASA to send projects to the International Space Station will be particularly useful to show female and minority students "that science and math and technology is not only is fun but that it is available to them," he said. "Quit telling girls they can't learn math and science," he said.