Panel 4: New Pathways for a Data Science Workforce

Panel 4 Guiding Question: ​
How might EDC’s expertise in developing and implementing ​HS and CC data science initiatives form a key element of ​a sustained, multi-year effort to grow, in collaboration with others, the size and diversity of the state’s future data science workforce?​

Panelist
Moderator, Sarita Pillai, EDC
Michael Harris, Bunker Hill Community College
Randy Kochevar, EDC
Rebecca Lewis, EDC
Joyce Malyn-Smith, EDC

Expanding Access to Data Science Careers
Each discussion in the panel series will address a key component critical to the development of a strategic plan to extend and expand the early-stage Data Science pipeline:

• To understand the need for a career pathway that begins with high school and community college students.
• To review existing policies in Massachusetts that support efforts to prepare more students for Data Science careers, and discuss what additional policy support might be needed.
• To learn from programs that broaden participation in other disciplines and apply those best practices in developing outreach and support programs for a more diverse community of students.
• To discover current initiatives for high school and community college students and discuss how they may form the basis of the early-stage Data Science pipeline.