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Highlights
- TCS Empowers flagship program—goIT is celebrating its 15th anniversary. The program is trusted for helping youth all over the world develop digital innovation and career-readiness skills for the future.
- Since 2009, goIT has introduced more than 300,000 students in 48 countries to design thinking as a problem-solving framework, emerging technologies, entrepreneurial skills, and global citizenship as a life-long value.
- In the program, students create innovative technology-based solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems, around the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs), while developing STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and computer science skills and confidence.
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go IT Simplified
TCS’ flagship program—goIT, creates a platform for students to express their creativity by designing unique and relevant solutions to global problems.
It offers student participants an experiential look at possibilities for their future and provides resources that make program delivery easy and enjoyable.
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Celebrating 15 years of innovation with go Innovate Together (goIT)
Careers in STEM
Around the world, there are more jobs in STEM and computer science than there are qualified candidates to fill those positions.
There is also a lack of understanding of what goes into becoming a STEM or computer science professional. TCS’ flagship digital innovation and career readiness program, go Innovate Together (goIT), prepares students with the skills and capabilities required to pursue careers of the future.
Through engaging design workshops and custom mentorship experiences, this program helps students by challenging stereotypes and inspiring future leaders to pursue the careers of tomorrow. It helps students develop core skills in partnerships using a four-pronged model, which includes in-person or virtual volunteer-driven engagements, round-the-year goIT online connects, monthly challenges centered around the UNSDGs, and mentorship by industry professionals from TCS.
Young thinkers, big ideas
Revolutionizing Classrooms
As goIT’s oldest and most widely adopted program offering, goIT Live is used in thousands of schools around the world to bring digital innovation directly into the classroom.
Students dive deep into the industry-designed and teacher-tested program modules to explore concepts like the STEM skills gap, design thinking, problem solving, rapid prototyping, and creating an entrepreneurial pitch, all alongside the support of TCS industry experts.
The program allows students to explore problems in their community related to the UNSDGs while working in teams to create digital solutions to solve them. At the end of the program, students get an opportunity to share their ideas.
The Monthly Challenge
The goIT Monthly Challenge is a monthly design competition where students have the opportunity to develop innovative tech-based solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems as identified by the UNSDGs.
The challenge gives students confidence by helping them nurture the 21st century skills necessary to create technology for social good, exposing them to a diverse range of STEM careers.
Blending design thinking and technology
goIT online is an immersive program that blends design thinking and technology to help students self-direct their learning as they tackle real-world problems.
The program follows the steps used by industry experts and provides students with 21st century skills and confidence to pursue a career in STEM-related industries by exposing them to a diverse range of STEM careers and guidance from real-life computer scientists. Students discover the importance of design thinking, wireframing, storyboarding, and basic programming concepts through tasks and challenges in creating their mobile app.
Young innovators interacting with industry experts
go IT Work Experience
The goIT work experience offers students the opportunity to work with industry leaders to hone their technology skills and further develop their innovative digital solutions.
Students participate in extended mentorship, where they spend time learning alongside STEM professionals who can help bring their innovations to life. This program allows students to continue fortifying the skills acquired during the standard goIT experience while being mentored.
A global innovation contest
The TCS goIT Global Innovator of the Year competition is part of TCS’ commitment to engage youth with meaningful computer science projects that encourage them to pursue STEM careers.
The program is designed to inspire them to become global citizens, aware of their role in their community. It positions them as future leaders committed to driving sustainable and inclusive solutions. Each year, The Global Innovator of the Year recognizes top goIT innovations around the world. Check out the winners of the 2023-24 competition here.
