Re: Making Science Interesting?
When I did engineering at Uni, engineers were viewed as people in grubby overalls with spanners in their pockets. They seemed to be looked down on by the arty-farty types who couldn't change a lightbulb is they had to.
Things have progressed in those 40 odd years, one thing being the widening gap between the engineers and designers who develop products and the consumers who use them. Most technology seems to be disposable and you don't need to know how it works. If it doesn't work, throw it away and get a new one - if it's more than a week old, it's probably obosolete anyway.
So, the scientists and engineers have to be well educated in maths, physics, chemistry, computing etc.. It would be great to get kids interested in engineering etc.., but you have to back this up with good education and opportunities and I'm not convinced that these exists.