By most accounts, if we’re going to fill all those empty tech jobs around Philly we have to get to work right now.

And at Microsoft’s School of the Future last Friday, a group of Accenture employees spent their “Day of Service” — in partnership with United Way — spreading the good word of working in tech.

Accenture, a consulting and professional services company that employs about 2,100 people in Philadelphia, threw a coding pep rally and helped deploy an “Hour of Code” session at the West Philly School, a joint venture between the School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft.

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