Computing for the Social Good in CS Education (CSG-Ed) is a pedagogy, growing in popularity, that reframes the assignments that students are given to develop their problem solving skills as ones that illustrate computing’s social relevance and potential for positive societal impact. However, change, such as adopting a new pedagogy, is hard. Time is limited and workloads are always seemingly increasing, making it easy to forego the investment needed to change. An approach that can help overcome this is the adoption of an entrepreneurial mindset.

A pedagogic entrepreneur is an educator who repeatedly devises and tries new ideas/approaches, learns from missteps, and iteratively improves those that show promise. These colleagues have a mindset, the entrepreneurial mindset, similar to that found in the start up community. In particular it is a perspective that drives a willingness to take calculated risks, be experimental, and know that not every experiment will be a complete success. In this Special Session we will introduce the standpoint that adopting CSG-Ed is a pedagogic entrepreneurial undertaking. Attendees will first learn about both the CSG-Ed pedagogy and the entrepreneurial stages of growth and the entrepreneurial mindset. Then attendees, in small groups, will practice, using the context of the CSG-Ed pedagogy, the activities of entrepreneurial growth with special attention given to the typical challenges encountered and techniques for overcoming them.