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hether it’s navigating a game of Pokémon Go, communicating through Snapchat or posting Facebook or Instagram updates, students today spend lots of downtime with their noses firmly on a screen. But the idea of someday pursuing a tech-related career is often overlooked, partly because only one in four US high schools offer computer science classes. TEALS (Technology Education and Literacy in Schools), a Microsoft Philanthropies program, is on a mission to change that. TEALS helps to build sustainable computer science programs in US high schools by pairing trained computer science pros across all tech industries, with