Families & K-8 Students Invited To Roosevelt Island Community Night Stem Activities Fair Thursday Night June 7 - Ignite My Future Program Presented By Tata Consultancy, Discovery Education & Cornell Tech

The Cornell Tech Tata Innovation Center is hosting a Roosevelt Island Community Night STEM Activities Fair on Thursday June 7 from 6 - 8 PM. Families and K-8 students are invited. Please RSVP here to attend.

Please join Tata Consultancy Services, Discovery Education, and Cornell Tech for Community Night STEM Activities Fair Drones, Games and More!

All Roosevelt Island families and K-8 students are invited.

Register here.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Cornell Tech – Tata Innovation Center 11 East Loop Road New York, NY 10044

According to this September 2017 press release announcing the start of Ignite My Future program:

Tata Consultancy Services, a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, and Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital education content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, today announced the launch of Ignite My Future in School. This a first-of-its-kind, multi-million dollar initiative leverages computational thinking and new teaching resources as a catalyst to transform the way K-12 students learn across America.

Recognizing the importance of computational thinking as a foundational skill, Ignite My Future in School has a goal of engaging 20,000 teachers and one million U.S. students by 2021. As a first step towards this goal, TCS and Discovery Education also announced that 10 U.S. school systems – with more than 6,700 teachers and 194,000 students – joined the effort as early adopters of this transdisciplinary approach....

More info on Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education Ignite My Future program in videos below.





and on the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech's Roosevelt Island campus.

"The Tata Innovation Center is the physical embodiment of what Cornell Tech is all about” says @cornell_tech’s Dean Dan Huttenlocher. The Tata Innovation Center will bring different industries under one roof, and will spark new ideas that will create a better digital future. pic.twitter.com/563Vm8ybsm

— The Bridge (@BridgeAtCornell) March 7, 2018

RSVP here to the Roosevelt Island Community Night STEM Activities Fair on Thursday June 7 from 6 - 8 PM at the Tata Innovation Center.