The software giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)(BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) has made an official statement regarding its Student Awareness program. According to the latest update, TCS has completed its annual goIT summer camp in Midland, Michigan. The two-day camp, which is now in its second year in the Greater Midland region, aims to inspire local middle school students to pursue a career and education in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. The program concluded with a robotics competition hosted at Jefferson Middle School in Midland, Michigan.
TCS’ goIT program is a STEM education initiative that is offered to students free of charge. The program delivers hands-on technology education to students and provides in-school IT career and awareness workshops. Led by TCS employees, the program offers students the opportunity to engage with advanced technology in an enjoyable, relaxed environment. The culmination of the program, held on August 9th, is a robotics competition in which student teams compete under the guidance of TCS mentors to overcome a series of challenges and obstacles using programming skills and technologies. This year, challenges included a robotic chariot race and castle storming.
“We are very excited to host our second goIT summer camp in the Midland, Michigan area. As an IT services company, we understand the critical importance of inspiring students to pursue a career in STEM and we are invested in our mission to address the growing skills gap in technology fields by reaching out to the youths in our community. Through programs such as goIT, we have the potential to inspire students to pursue a career that they never thought possible,” said Surya Kant, President, North America, UK and Europe, TCS.
The goIT program is just one of several ambitious initiatives that TCS is actively involved in to improve the accessibility and quality of STEM education across the United States. For example, at the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative in Chicago, Illinois, TCS announced that it had joined US2020 as a Founding Leadership Partner. Â US2020 is a national STEM Education initiative that aims to engage one million science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals in mentorship opportunities by the year 2020.
