Awards recognize teachers and their schools
inspiring students in underserved and underrepresented communities
to build skills and careers in computer science and teachers with a
focus on promoting diversity and inclusion in computer science
All 2,400 Amazon Future Engineer high school
and robotics teachers can be nominated and apply at
AmazonFutureEngineer.com from February 13th to March 12th
Seven award recipients will be chosen from
across the country – two high school teachers from the Eastern
U.S., two in the West, two in the Central region, and one Amazon
Future Engineer Robotics Grant teacher
Amazon Future Engineer is a four-part
childhood-to-career program intended to inspire, educate, and
prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and
underserved communities to try computer science
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced the first-ever Amazon
Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards to honor and recognize
seven all-star teachers and their schools working diligently to
help students in underserved and underrepresented communities build
life-changing skills to propel their futures in computer
science–with prize packages valued at more than $25,000. The more
than 2,400 teachers participating in the Amazon Future Engineer
Program at over 2,100 schools nationwide can be nominated or apply
at AmazonFutureEngineer.com from February 13th to March 12th.
Amazon Future Engineer inspires, educates, and prepares hundreds of
thousands of students from underserved and underrepresented
communities each year in the field of computer science. Amazon
Future Engineer teachers are the champions of the program –
focusing especially on promoting diversity and inclusion in their
computer science classrooms and beyond.
Award recipients will be chosen based on a variety of criteria
which includes their commitment to promoting diversity and
inclusion within computer science education, a recommendation from
a school administrator, and compelling, personal anecdotes about
their school and students. Seven award recipients will be chosen
from across the country – two high school teachers in the Eastern
U.S., two in the West, two in the Central region, and one Amazon
Future Engineer Robotics Grant teacher. Scholarship America will
judge applications and select the award recipients.
“The more than 2,400 Amazon Future Engineer teachers go the
extra mile to bring exciting and life-changing computer science
education to their students. We are proud to be able to support the
teachers’ mission and the hundreds of thousands of hard-working
students across the country who benefit,” said Jeff Wilke, CEO
Worldwide Consumer, Amazon. “With this first round of awards, we
are thrilled to recognize and celebrate these teachers as they make
it possible for more students from a wide variety of backgrounds to
have access to this increasingly important field.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that by 2020 there will
be 1.4 million computer-science-related jobs available and only
400,000 computer science graduates with the skills to apply for
those jobs. Computer science is the fastest-growing profession
within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) field,
but only 8% of STEM graduates earn a computer science degree, with
a small percentage from underserved backgrounds. Students from
underserved backgrounds are 8 to 10 times more likely to pursue
college degrees in computer science if they have taken AP computer
science in high school.
Amazon Future Engineer funds Introductory and Advanced Placement
computer science courses in more than 2,000 high schools serving
more than 100,000 students in underserved and underrepresented
communities. Amazon’s funding also provides preparatory lessons,
tutorials, professional development for teachers, fully sequenced
and paced digital curriculum for students, and live online support
every day of the week for both teachers and students. All educators
and students participating in this program have access to a no-cost
membership with AWS Educate, Amazon’s global initiative to provide
students comprehensive resources for building skills in cloud
technology. Students will receive content to learn about cloud
computing and access to the AWS cloud for their coding
projects.
The Amazon Future Engineer Robotics Grant is currently in more
than 150 schools, supporting thousands of students. This program
provides a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools with
robotics programming, which includes
funding to launch FIRST robotics clubs along with teacher
professional development, an additional $10,000 to expand access to
computer science education at each school, which could include
field trips, hardware, and technology upgrades, and access to a
tour of an Amazon robotics fulfillment center.
All Amazon Future Engineer teachers can apply to the Amazon
Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards starting on February
13th through March 12th at AmazonFutureEngineer.com. School
principals, administrators, peers, and students can also nominate
Amazon Future Engineer teachers, encouraging them to apply. Amazon
will notify award recipients later this year. The schools of award
recipients will each receive a prize package valued at over
$25,000, which may include a variety of needed donations to their
classrooms, STEM toys and activities, school upgrades and
enhancements and more. They will also receive an all-expenses paid
trip to re:MARS, Amazon’s AI event covering a diverse array of
topics and themes related to Machine Learning, Automation,
Robotics, and Space. Teachers with questions about the Awards can
visit AmazonFutureEngineer.com.
Launched in November 2018, Amazon Future Engineer is a four-part
childhood-to-career program intended to inspire, educate, and
prepare children and young adults from underrepresented and
underserved communities to pursue careers in the fast-growing field
of computer science. Each year, Amazon Future Engineer aims to
inspire hundreds of thousands of young people to explore computer
science; awards dozens of schools Amazon Future Engineer Robotics
Grants, provides over 100,000 young people in over 2,000 high
schools access to Intro or AP Computer Science courses; awards 100
students with four-year $10,000 scholarships, as well as offers
guaranteed and paid Amazon internships to gain work experience, and
forms unique partnerships with trusted institutions to bring new
coding experiences to students – for example, in 2019, Amazon
Future Engineer sponsored a music-based coding remix competition
with Georgia Tech on their EarSketch platform. Amazon Future
Engineer is part of Amazon’s $50 million investment in computer
science/STEM education. In addition, Amazon Future Engineer has
donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote
computer science/STEM education across the country.
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About Amazon in the Community
Amazon is committed to helping more children and young adults,
especially those from underrepresented and underserved communities,
have the resources and skills they need to build their best future.
Amazon focuses on building long-term, innovative, and high impact
programs that leverage Amazon’s unique assets and culture.
Initiatives include Amazon Future Engineer, designed to inspire and
excite tens of thousands of children and young adults from
underserved and underrepresented communities each year to pursue
computer science, as well as programs that support immediate needs,
including addressing family homelessness through donations and
housing a homeless shelter in its Seattle headquarters, as well as
global relief efforts for people in need following natural
disasters.
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