It's also very possible that you might want to choose a third party to be the broker to bring everybody together. Let's Talk Science works with 36 universities and colleges from coast to coast, with many industries, and with the federal government scientists who want to get involved. We mobilize 3,000 people who themselves are in the science workforce or are going to be in the science workforce. We do go into schools and community centres all the time and work with kids. You have to have a different kind of program for each of the different ages and ranges.
In addition to doing the focus things—you parachute in and then you leave—we've begun to work more on how to have programs that can be implemented and have a life of their own in the classroom. You do have to get the teachers involved. You do have to get the voluntary sector involved.
Job fairs and all that are great, but you have to think strategically on how to systematize it. That's really where we're at right now, systematizing the work that began 10 or 20 years ago with role models in the classroom. How do you make that a permanent feature of every child's experience in the summer, in school, after school? It's a cultural piece.
It's definitely doable, and there is a role for the federal government.