Ms Gusterson's 15-year-old son is studying vocational courses in science, construction, sports and ICT, as well as GCSE maths and English.
The county has magnets for International Baccalaureate IBB), math and science, construction, ROTC, the arts, and more.
The college offers nine degrees including engineering, computer science, construction management, design, distribution and logistics, industrial engineering technology, information and computer technology, and industrial technology.
But few sites have proved as challenging as his latest, at Broadway and West 120th Street, for which he has designed a $200 million interdisciplinary science building, now under construction, for Columbia University.
7. The others, in order, are: understanding and expression; thinking the possible; and finally, in science, the construction of symbols or measuring devices.
In some discussions, philosophers also envisaged an ultimate aim for the systematic and explanatory work of the sciences: the construction of a unified science in which nature was understood in maximum depth.
New recruiting efforts to diversify the Park Service's employee base — also largely white — are working with urban youth who might scoff at the idea of being a ranger in the wild, but could gravitate toward history, science or construction jobs.
She raised the possibility of Harvard's teaming up with private industry, hospitals or philanthropic foundations to continue the science center construction and other Allston projects — an idea that Mr. Mattison found encouraging.
And, you know, there just may be some: last week — and this is 2008, mind you — the Wall Street Journal ran an article titled "Ways Women Can Hold Their Own in a Male World," which began, "Joining a male-dominated industry, like engineering, computer science or construction trades, can be intimidating".
Last June Lib Dem MP Jenny Willott, then women's minister, confronted toy shop owners and manufacturers at an industry summit, telling them that toys should be in categories such as science and construction rather than placed in gender-specific departments.
She also points to recent community workshops to help map out how NEON would do science once construction is completed.
