 My board of science and technology they mentioned something about a school of math and science And I just jumped all over it. It was my cup of tea, you know something popped in my head Boy, that could be great. The first thing I did was to write to 200 letters to To all the former Nobel Prize winners in America in the science and mathematics fields Asking what they thought of the idea. Is this a good idea should North Carolina do it? Almost all of them wrote back and were enthusiastic about it So I knew we were on to something. It was always hard to get new things through the legislature But we pushed very hard on this On one occasion I remember this item in the budget was up for a vote in the state House of Representatives When they had the committee vote, although I had my lobbyist there to work on it We came up one vote short But it turned out that one of the votes I was counting on one of the state representatives was not in the building They were up in Western North Carolina And so the vote was tied and we asked to have it voted on again the next day Between then that evening and the next day I sent the state airplane to find that Legislator and bring him back to Raleigh to vote and the next morning it passed by one vote. I Have students as I'm getting around the state and around the country by the way They come up to me and say governor. I went to the school of science and mathematics They're so proud of it and they've done so well with it And now we want to expand to a new campus and we want to get new students more students coming And and we want it to affect all the public schools in North Carolina and help them be the best they can be and Obviously through the the technical opportunities that we have now we can do that and we are doing it That's the way you get economic growth That's why if you want to have a strong economy and better jobs the best thing you do is support education But you got to support it in smart ways and the school of science and mathematics was one of the best one that ever came along