How Melinda Gates Got Her Daughters Excited About Science (geekwire.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday January 25, 2016 @10:34PM from the getting-started dept.

theodp writes: GeekWire reports that Melinda Gates concluded a Davos panel discussion about gender parity with a personal story about her own family, explaining how she originally became interested in computer science, and how she later played Lab Manager to Bill's Mr. Wizard to help pass along their passion for science and math to their kids. "On Saturday mornings," Gates explained, "I wanted to sleep late. So you know what I did? I made sure there were science projects available, and that's what he did with our two daughters and our son. And guess what my two daughters are interested in? Science and math."

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Re:Melinda Gates? What did she accomplish? by Xest · 2016-01-25 23:48 · Score: 3, Informative

I'd have thought that pointing out that computer science made daddy the richest man in the world would be sufficient to get them interested in science quite frankly.