Access Your Potential engages 10k students for science festival

Setting the scene

Technology is changing the face of learning and the jobs of the future. By 2020, 77% of US jobs will require some degree of technological skills, and there will be one million more computing jobs than applicants who can fill them. This gap gives business a distinct opportunity to take the skills they are teaching to their people and bring them to their communities to equip the future workforce.

Enter Access Your Potential, PwC US’s $320 million commitment to teach underserved students the tech and money skills they need to equip themselves for a successful future.

Impact

More than 10,000 students completed the full experience of the exhibit, and a small army of more than 70 PwC volunteers guided students through the activities.

US Advisory Leader Mohamed Kande spoke to hundreds of students about how technology has played a transformative role in his life, and about PwC’s commitment to helping them prepare for the future through Access Your Potential.

As Mohamed shared after his remarks: “Access Your Potential is a two-way street. The first way is about being able to give back through financial literacy and, now, with technology skills. We’re going to learn a lot -- we’re going to learn what the needs of the students are, and what technology makes sense for them. It’s a great initiative that certainly gives back to society, and one that we can get a lot out of in return.”