The document discusses effective strategies for supporting computer science (CS) education. It summarizes key points from an executive panel discussion on the topic featuring representatives from Tata Consultancy Services, the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, and Dassault Systèmes Americas. The panelists call for injecting real-world problems into STEM curriculum to inspire students, exposing teachers to CS careers, enabling educators to deliver work-ready students, engaging minority populations, lifting caps on CS majors in college, requiring basic coding knowledge for all jobs, scaling up winning CS programs, and incentivizing universities to support STEM and CS.

1. Future of Computer Science
Effective Strategies for Supporting CS
Education
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December 12, 2013
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2. Future of Computer Science
Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
Executive Panel Discussion
Moderator: Brian Kelly, Chief Content Officer, US
News & World Report.
Panelists:
 Surya Kant, President, TCS North America, UK &
Europe,
 Robert Atkinson, President, Information
Technology & Innovation Foundation
 Al Bunshaft, President and CEO, Dassault
Systèmes Americas
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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
Real-world problems should be
injected into STEM school
curriculum to inspire students
toward STEM careers.
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world
 To succeed on tomorrow’sSTEM stage, students must
have a solid foundation in
and be fluent in the
technologies that will power the global economy of the
21st century. TCS is proud to bring not only our
technological expertise to this national effort, but also
the passion and commitment that our employees have
in lending their talents to positively impact their
communities, across the country and around the
world.
Surya Kant
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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
Teachers should be exposed to
careers in computer science
through training.
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jobs
Every
The fact is IThas ITare pervasive.embedded
organization
people. IT is
in all systems and production. Computer
science jobs are growing 92 percent faster
than all jobs. So the message must go out
to all to jump on the computer science
bandwagon to get computer science jobs in
any sector you choose.
Rob Atkinson
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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
Educators should be enabled to
deliver work-ready students at
the high school and collegiate
level.
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limited exposure to
 Many of our teachers havesimply not ready to
computer science and are
implement technology into their curriculum.
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Al Bunshaft
 We need to support and examine the critical role
of community colleges as feeder-schools to
industry and university.
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Rob Atkinson

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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
We need to engage minority
populations.
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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
Computer science courses
should qualify as math credits in
high school; caps should be
lifted in college.
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many universities cap
 At the college level, who currently major in the
number of students
computer science. Colleges need to be
encouraged to either expand or eliminate caps
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Rob Atkinson
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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
A basic knowledge of coding
should be required for even the
simplest of jobs.
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U.S., this
 In thethings workbasic knowledge of coding and
how
should be required of all workers.
To help educators deliver these skills, we need a
broader and more balanced ecosystem for STEM
education in the U.S.
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Surya Kant

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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
We should take action in every
community and scale up winning
CS programs.
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been too fragmented.
 Our efforts have scale up programs thatWe must
consolidate and
are
successful.
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Al Bunshaft
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Effective Strategies for Supporting CS Education
Universities must be incentivized
to support STEM and computer
science
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11. Thank You