For the United States to maintain and expand its leadership in the field of nanotechnology. we must train and educate more scientists and engineers who are capable of conducting research and development in this emerging technology. To reach this objective. students need to be taught the necessary skills beginning at the high school and college levels. According to the National Science Foundation. foreign students on temporary visas earned approximately onethird of all science and engineering doctorates awarded in the United States. By providing high school and college students with the tools to learn nanotechnology. a higher number of American students will enter this crucial field. The Nanotechnology in the Schools Act provides grants to American colleges and highperforming high schools to purchase the tools that will enable their students to learn nanotechnology.