Currently, while many Clinic projects have societal impacts, few teams actually take the time to examine them. In the future, students should be required to assess the societal effect their project will have. Furthermore, prospective Clinic projects should be evaluated on the basis of the positive societal impact they could have.

As CS becomes more prevalent in K-12 education we should consider adding CS as a subject supported by Harvey Mudd's Homework Hotline, which currently provides free math and science tutoring by phone from Harvey Mudd students to 4th through 12th graders.

Upward Bound is a school year and summer program devoted to preparing underrepresented high school students for college. CS faculty and students should consider assisting the Upward Bound program in order to expose students to computer science before they encounter it in higher education.  Such an activity might become a project of the ACM student chapter. We should meet with coordinators of the Upward Bound program in order to assess future possibilities of collaborating.

We should develop one or more CS presentations for parents of K-12 students, especially for schools with underrepresented demographics of computer science. With the growth of computer science as a field, job opportunities in CS that parents have not heard of will be available to these students. Informing parents about the future of computer science and how their children might be involved will encourage awareness of computer science for parents and, indirectly, their children.

Faculty members of the Computer Science Department with NSF funded projects should consider seeking supplemental funding to hire high school students to spend part of their summer involved with an HMC research project. This could allow underrepresented minorities to have an opportunity to observe and participate in real-world computer science research before entering higher education or the job market.