Get 'em while they're young!

Speaking of how to get education preparing our kids for bioscience, here's local entrepreneur Phil Alexander of BrandMuscle talking as a guest columnist for NEOSA about what we have to do to prepare the next generation of IT workers.

His main points are good ones:

• Youth advisory boards -- invite kids to the corporate discussion table (I love this one)
• Make technology cool -- get companies to sponsor clubs in schools (about games, web design, graphic design, etc.)
• Talk to kids about Cleveland as a great place -- instead of waiting until they're in college, get them excited about their hometown now. Phil says he's talked to kids who interned here and were much more positive about Northeast Ohio. Sure, they lived an opportunity here.

This is creative thinking for the long term. Thanks, Phil, for speaking out in favor of getting to our kids long before they start picking out colleges somewhere else. Read it all here.