Clinton Global Initiative America: Cognizant Announces Commitment to Maker Corps at Clinton Global Initiative America Meeting

Cognizant recently announced its commitment to Maker Corps at the Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America) meeting. Maker Corps, a new program developed by the Maker Education Initiative, will hire college students to serve as mentors and educators to children in summer and after school programs inspired by the Maker Movement, a broad-based community that celebrates the art of designing and building things, either doing-it-yourself (DIY) or with others (DIWO).

Makers are driven by the challenge of the projects they tackle, while also engaging in design- and project-based learning that can nurture creativity and develop proficiency in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Maker Corps members will be trained to engage children in creative projects that develop problem-solving skills in ways that make science and technology fun.

Cognizant was represented by Mark Greenlaw, Vice President of Sustainability and Educational Affairs at the Company, when President Bill Clinton announced the impact of the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative America (CGI America), a meeting dedicated to forging collaborative solutions to the United States’ most pressing economic challenges (Accompanying video: 11:00 to 13:50 minutes).