Amazon is planning to extend its childhood-to-career computer science program Future Engineer to India. With Amazon Future Engineer program, Amazon is aiming to bring more than 10 million kids to computer science per year, and fund computer science courses for over 100,000 underprivileged kids in 2,000 low-income high schools in the U.S. It also awards 100 students per year with four-year $10,000 scholarships and offers internships at Amazon.
Amazon Future Engineer is a big part of Amazon’s $50 million investment in computer science over the next five years. Amazon Future Engineer has also donated more than $20 million to organizations that promote computer science/STEM education across the US.
In its job post, Amazon said that it plans to launch the program in India by the end of 2021. The
childhood-to-career program is currently operational in the United
States, where the company serves more than 5,000 schools and 550,000
students with computer science coursework, it said in a press release earlier this week.
"Amazon India has a specific focus on equipping children and young adults from underserved and underprivileged communities to build better futures for themselves," Amazon said in the description.
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