1. Short title This Act may be cited as the 416d65726963612043616e20436f6465 Act of 2017 or the America Can Code Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) According to the National Science Foundation, 2 percent of students studying science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) are computer science majors, while 60 percent of STEM jobs are in the computing field. (2) The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that computer programming jobs are growing at twice the national job growth average, and these jobs are high paying middle class jobs that can secure the financial future of many American families and also help grow the United States economy. 3. Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) secondary schools should focus on preparing career and technical students, including underrepresented groups such as minorities and women, for academic and technical opportunities in postsecondary education or entry into a high paying, skilled job in the computer programming field; (2) elementary schools and secondary schools should place emphasis on coding and computer programming as a vocational and technical education track; (3) educators should rethink the way coding as a skill is conceptualized within the education system and in our society