Read original article by Annette Kingsbury at The Oakland Press.
I'm not sure if anybody listened to the State of the Union address last night by President Barack Obama. But, if you did, you would have noticed that one of the states he had mentioned was the state of Michigan.
How would you feel to be mentioned in a president's speech?
Well, this is exactly what happened for Robert Allen and his brother Gary of Oakland Twp. They own Allen Brothers Inc., a roofing company started by their father in Rochester Hills in 1950. In 2007, the brothers founded Luma Resources to market what they believe will be a breakthrough in solar roofing -- an easy-to-install kit designed for residential use.
Obama used them as an example to show how imagination and ideas like the Allen brother's are what will change America's economy.
"We should not celebrate the Super Bowl champion, but the winner of the science fair," said Obama.
To me, this showed that everyone needs to be celebrated for their imaginations. Because the youth's imagination is what our country will survive off of. Kids will praise football players and call the winner of the science fair a nerd. But that winner of the science fair could be the next Bill Gates, the next person to change the face of our economy, the next person to change the world.
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