STEM Education

Topic: Resources (Careers & Technology)

Age: Students (6+)

Description:
From our online store to your doorstep, discover how computer science, state-of-the-art engineering, and incredible people deliver customer orders at Amazon through Kahoot!

Explore Turinglab’s fun, engaging Python fundamentals course which includes programming a farmbot, setting up smart cities, and creating a chatbot. Or, get started creating amazing posters and graphics in a short course! Fun, engaging tools to learn—and teach—Python coding.

Topic:
Careers & Personal Development

Ages:
Secondary (11-18)

Description:
Class Chats are virtual career talks available to teachers and students across the UK. For our live events (30 minutes), students meet an Amazon professional, learn about their job & career journey with a Q&A afterwards. For the on-demand experience (1 hour), students can access these resources at any time. They are interactive, pre-recorded sessions, which include a student activity and model answer.

Topic:
Bursaries & Teacher Training

Age:
Students looking to study computer science or related engineering courses at UK universities

Description:
In partnership with the Royal Academy, Amazon Future Engineer provides bursaries to Women students looking to study computer science or a related engineering course at university. These bursaries provide up to £20,000 worth of financial support to successful recipients.

Topic:
Challenge (Alexa Skills, Computing)

Age:
Secondary (13-18)

Description:
Alexa Skills Inventor is a programme on MIT App Inventor that enables students (aged 13+) to code their own skill suitable for Alexa. No Amazon device is required. All skills are built with block code, making it easy for anyone to learn the basics of voice AI!

Topic:
Challenges (Music remixing, coding)

Age:
Secondary (11-18)

Description:
Pharrell Williams, Georgia Tech, Computing at School and Amazon invite students to engage in an inspiring new learning experience that explores the ways music, computer science, and entrepreneurship can be tools to advance racial equity.

Topic: STEM Career Inspiration/Data Centre Exploration

Age: 9-14

Description:
AWS CloudRoom is an educational initiative for teachers and their students aged 9-14. We provide workshops to help students learn about cloud technologies and its potential, aiming to inspire curiosity for an innovative and inspiring future for all communities.

Topic:
Bursaries & Teacher Training

Age:
University graduates and career changers

Description:
Through the partnership of Teach First and Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon supports the recruitment of 25 computing teachers every year into some of the most disadvantaged schools across the country.

AWS re/Start is a cohort-based workforce development training programme that prepares individuals for careers in the cloud and connects them to potential employers. The programme is free to the learner and focused on helping unemployed or underemployed individuals launching a new career. AWS re/Start’s collaborating organisations support underrepresented groups, minorities, displaced individuals, young people, and more.

Topic:
Resources (Maths and Science)

Ages:
Open to anyone

Description:
Build your cloud skills at your own pace, on your own time, and completely for free.