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 programming a farmbot, setting up smart cities, 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:
The AWS CloudRoom program offers schools a series of workshops and activities focused on all things Cloud, Data Centers and the technologies that depend on it. Workshops feature an engaging cast of animated characters that help bring the Cloud to life through a wealth of both virtual and classroom-based activities. Students will join characters on their adventures, as they explore the ways in which cloud technologies are changing the world.

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.

Topic:
Challenge (Introduction to Cloud Computing, STEM Career Inspiration, Design thinking)

Age:
Students (12-14)

Description:
AWS GetIT is a fully-funded, flexible educational programme that helps students consider a future career in tech. With AWS GetIT, you will help your students learn human and digital skills as they learn what it takes to design an app, work together to create an app idea, and meet professionals in tech.

Topic:
Resources (Maths and Science)

Ages:
Primary and Secondary (5-18)

Description:
Accessible technical training desired for young people to learn and explore various technical subjects, provided for free.