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591 Tech Leaders Launch Campaign To Make CS and AI a Graduation Requirement

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 05/04/2025 14:20 EDT

Tech Leaders Launch Campaign To Make CS and AI a Graduation Requirement

"Our future won't be handed to us," says the young narrator in a new ad from the nonprofit Code.org. "We will build it."

"But how can we when the education we need is still just an elective?" says another young voice...

The ad goes on to tout the power "to create with computer science and AI — the skills transforming every industry..." and ends by saying "This isn't radical. It's what education is supposed to do. Make computer science and AI a graduation requirement."

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