The buzz about American education is about to get a lot louder.
The education documentary, Two Million Minutes, will be screened at the landmark Aquarius Theater in Palo Alto, California next Wednesday, December 5th at 7:30 pm.
Present at the screening will be Bob Compton, the film’s executive producer, along with Tim Draper, managing director of Silicon Valley venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Tim is an expert featured in the film. In fact, he starts the film with this quote: “America is the one country in the world that doesn’t seem to recognize that it’s in competition for the great minds and the capital of the world.”
Exactly.
Since the film features six high school students–two in the US, two in China and two in India–the high-tech center is a great place to stir up discussion on the status of education in this country and how it will affect employment opportunities in the future. There will be some Silicon Valley heavy hitters there for the screening and the sure-to-be-lively roundtable discussion following.
Want to be there? Readers of this blog can get a free invitation to the Palo Alto screening by contacting Meg Charlebois at Dittoe Public Relations. Email Meg at meg@dittoepr.com or give her a call at 317-202-2280. Seating is limited to 300. Spouses/guests are welcome.
I’ve written about this thought-provoking movie already. Read my posts on the early responses to the film from Harvard grad students here , Bob’s response to their response here, and a bit of correspondence with Neil Ahrendt, an American student featured in the film here.
For a real treat, visit Neil’s blog, in which he shares stories of the responses he’s getting from friends and family and how freaky it is that Barack Obama knows who he is. Honestly, I am so glad that Neil is in this movie. He is a very smart and thoughtful guy, and if we are going to have a poster boy for American education (how can you pick???), I think he is a great choice. It will be fun to read his blog and see how things progress once the film is really out there.
And it WILL be out there in a big way. Watch for news on that here soon.
