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TCS expands student technology awareness program to Columbus, Ohio

Date: 27-06-2012

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has completed its inaugural goIT summer camp in Columbus, Ohio - an expansion of the company’s annual goIT program for students in the greater Cincinnati region. The Columbus camp, run out of The Ohio Union at The Ohio State University,  it is designed to foster high school students’ interest in pursuing a career in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Since its inception, the goIT program has reached over 2,000 students across 20 Ohio school districts through in-school workshops.    

The TCS goIT program, which is free for all students, provides in-school IT career and awareness workshops, and hands-on technology education. Throughout the school year, over 40 TCS volunteers conducted workshops and other training targeted toward introducing students to new technologies and providing IT career awareness. The technology workshop topics have included basic programming lessons and technology hot-topics such as Web 2.0, social media and mobile technology.

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT, BPO, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services.