Gentlemen, these are nerds. They are back. They're back. Don't panic.

And they're back who really reach the wall for that one. That's the clip from the 1980s movie ' Revenge of the nerds II' . And today's job market is all about the nerds. Growing up, your parents may have wanted you to be a doctor, a lawyer, a banker, maybe airline pilot. Those were the rock stars, right?

But the rock stars of today:science, technology, engineering and math. Software engineer ranks as the best job of 2012. This is, according to Careercast, paying around $90,000 a year. Petroleum engineers even average 6 figures, a 114,000-dollars a year. Call them nerds, but it's cool to have a career that pays.

They don't come any cooler than Ainiss Ramirez, Scientist and former professor of mechanical engineering at Yale University. Welcome to the program.

Heheh..Thank you for having me.

Ainiss, you call yourself a "science's evangelist". The point here is engaging kids, from kindergarten to college, in STEM field. How do we do that?

Well, we've gotta get them excited about the science. As you know, some science classes, math classes just don't capture children's imaginations. So, we have to figure out how to do that. So, instead of telling children to be a software engineer, ask them 'Hey, would you like to be the next Zukberger' You have to put them in contexts and get them excited about these careers. That's what I did.

The 2012 Teacher of The Year was so interesting. She gets her kids to design an app in first, or second grade. Write apps, I mean, this is you gotta do it right away, doing something that they understand. But when we, you know, talk about the top jobs in this fields, engineering, in particular, still boys' club. Look at these 88,000 degrees were handed out in 2010, just 15,000 of those went to women. Um, Why aren't women getting more excited about STEM: science, technology, engineering and Math. Is that, Is that also happening in the schools?

Uh, it's a sad fact, but it's definitely true. Women are about 20% of the bachelor's degrees, that are, you know, coming out the engineering. And it's, there's no gender bias in terms of how people perform in math, that means girls and boys do math just equally as well.

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