Tata Consultancy Services has pioneered school outreach programs for nearly two decades. After supporting several schools and associations individually the company decided to create a few properties that are annual and caters to not just the children but involves the other stake holders as well, such as the teacher and the school.
These initiatives underline the commitment of TCS towards grooming the future generations of this nation to be ready to harness the demand that India will face as we progress towards being the knowledge capital of the world.
Rural IT Quiz
Started in 2000, exclusively for rural schools across Karnataka Tata Consultancy Services in association with the Department of Information Technology, Govt. of Karnataka, came together to plan, what would be India's first Rural IT quiz and a fantastic rural education initiative.
This school initiative is an effort to spread awareness, and create comfort levels about IT at the grassroots level. From 32,000 participants in the year of introduction the quiz has been growing in popularity every year and reached over 1.2 million children in 2007.
TCS IT Wiz
TCS IT Wiz is India's biggest IT quiz for schools, started in 1999, celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2008. The quiz has become a premier quiz property in India for school children. The TCS IT Quiz was launched in Bangalore in 1999 and today reaches 12 Indian cities and over a 1000 schools across the country.
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