Exposing kids to technology and possibility is the stuff that helps them set their direction and inspire them to start taking the steps to achieve.

Participating in an event like this with the Girl Scouts when I was in high school helped me decide that I liked technology, but did NOT want to be an engineer. And today -- a few, err, years later -- I'm right in the middle of the technology industry. I just happen to be marketing it insetad of creating it.

The more kids see beyond their day-to-day lives opens them to imagining greater options for the future.