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3 Carrots to Steer Kids to Tech Fields?

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Updated: January 10, 2013 | 2:56 p.m.
December 14, 2012 | 9:20 a.m.

If you tell kids they could earn 65 grand as an intern, work at the happiest company on Earth, and get a free Surface and Win8 phone, might more gravitate toward a tech career?

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