Educate to Innovate hopes to pique interest in STEM learning in young children. For instance, Sesame Street will focus two years of its programing on helping children become science and math literate. And an annual science fair will be held at the White House for top science fair winners from across the country. (One more local plug: check out the Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair on your way to the top.)

The MacArthur Foundation is helping to develop the Digital Media and Learning Competition, a national contest to recognize changes in the ways children learn. The open competition, which starts Dec. 14, is searching for digital media ideas that will help children develop their math and science skills. The competition has all sorts of partners we've tweeted our love for in the past, including National Lab Day and HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). So, genuises, get those proposals ready.

Digital plant from Daniel Brown's series, "Flowers."

"The Network," dissects traces of information we leave behind after using social networks. Programers developed a section that visualizes information, such as how bloggers are feeling based upon what they say in their blogs. "Code," looks at the digital coding we use to program. Artist Daniel Brown uses mathematics to generate a fluid growth of digital images that mimics plants found in nature. Much like "Ghost Interruptions," the "Interactivity" exhibit allows visitors to interact with different works. One of the featured exhibits is the Opto-Isolator, developed by Golan Levin, which is a robotic eye that follows the viewer's eye motions.