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CSpathshala: Who are we?

ACM is the world’s largest educational and scientific society

ACM’s Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has been promoting teaching of computing in schools for 10+ years in US

CSpathshala is ACM India Led initiative to teach computing as science to every child by 2030!

Seed funding from Google

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Why Study Computer Science

We are into the Digital Age

Trains students to be creators & inventors

Problem solving and computational thinking are basic skills

Focuses on foundations & principles

CS skills required to be socially responsible citizens

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CSpathshala: CS Curriculum Topics

Digital Literacy

Problem solving and algorithms

Computational thinking

Programming

Networking

Ethical uses, privacy, security issues

A lot of pen and paper based activities

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CSpathshala: Partnership model

Partner with school

Train teachers and support them

Feedback from teachers

School children will have competitive advantage and will be better prepared for digital society

And there will be no charges!