How can schools in the United States do a better job of engaging the students who are growing up as "natives to technology"? That's a critical question that must be addressed in the National Education Technology Plan now under development, according to John Bailey, director of educational technology for the U.S. Department of Education. Bailey participated in a day of high-level brainstorming in late June with educators, researchers, and policymakers invited to the 10th annual Leadership Symposium held by the International Society for Technology in Education and sponsored by Intel® Innovation in Education. More 
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The caliber of student research projects at last year's Intel Student Research Contest (ISRC) was so impressive that it inspired this year's winner. Notre Dame University junior Dane Wheeler came to Santa Clara, California, to participate in the ISRC, and left determined to come up with a project to snare a place in the competition during his senior year.
To make the cut the first year, the electrical engineering student's project had involved fabricating silicon tunnel diodes via rapid thermal diffusion. But to return the following year and maybe even have a chance at winning, Wheeler says, "I knew I would have to come up with a really good idea." More
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