About Amazon Future Engineer
Amazon Future Engineer is a computer science and STEM education program that seeks to afford all young people the opportunity to explore their potential.
Mission
We harness Amazon’s scale and innovative spirit to inspire and prepare young people for the careers of the future through computer science. We don’t believe everyone needs to be an engineer, yet we do believe that even a basic exposure to computer science can help young people on their educational and career journey.
Vision
We seek a world where young people can realize their potential as creators, thinkers, and builders.
STEM Opportunities From Childhood To Career
We provide students with increased access to computer science and career exploration across grade levels.
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Real World Exploration: Career Connections
Career Tours
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Career Tours are free virtual field trips that inspire students to pursue careers of the future by exploring Amazon’s technologies. Tour whenever, wherever on Kahoot!
Robotics Fulfillment Center Tours
From our online store to your doorstep, discover how computer science, state-of-the-art engineering, and incredible people deliver customer orders at Amazon. Available in both a K-5 and Grades 6+ version.
Callisto: Space Innovation Tour
Join Amazon Future Engineer, Lockheed Martin, and Cisco from Johnson Space Center to learn about the amazing technology on board the Orion spacecraft in NASA’s Artemis I flight test and the careers that made this technology possible.
Robotics Fulfillment Center Tours
From our online store to your doorstep, discover how computer science, state-of-the-art engineering, and incredible people deliver customer orders at Amazon. Available in both a K-5 and Grades 6+ version.
Callisto: Space Innovation Tour
Join Amazon Future Engineer, Lockheed Martin, and Cisco from Johnson Space Center to learn about the amazing technology on board the Orion spacecraft in NASA’s Artemis I flight test and the careers that made this technology possible.
Real World Exploration: Career Connections
Class Chats
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Virtual Career Talks for Your Classroom!
Exposing students to in-demand careers and diverse career role models can bring them new possibilities, inspiration, and motivation. Amazon employees work across a broad range of technical and nontechnical roles - Class Chats can help students envision future careers that they may not have even heard of!
Show your students all the career possibilities their future can offer by bringing an Amazon professional to your classroom. Our Class Chat volunteers will share their personal career stories and insight about working at a large tech company, as well as answer your students’ career questions.
Class Chats are free, live, interactive, and available to classrooms across the US.
Exposing students to in-demand careers and diverse career role models can bring them new possibilities, inspiration, and motivation. Amazon employees work across a broad range of technical and nontechnical roles - Class Chats can help students envision future careers that they may not have even heard of!
Show your students all the career possibilities their future can offer by bringing an Amazon professional to your classroom. Our Class Chat volunteers will share their personal career stories and insight about working at a large tech company, as well as answer your students’ career questions.
Class Chats are free, live, interactive, and available to classrooms across the US.
Real World Exploration: Computer Science Challenges
Cyber Robotics Challenge
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Discover how Amazon uses computer science and robotics daily to deliver customer goods.
What is the challenge?
Can you code an Amazon Hercules robot to deliver your friend’s birthday present on time? Join this free, 3-hour virtual challenge to learn programming basics and discover how Amazon uses computer science to help fulfill customer orders.
What is the challenge?
Can you code an Amazon Hercules robot to deliver your friend’s birthday present on time? Join this free, 3-hour virtual challenge to learn programming basics and discover how Amazon uses computer science to help fulfill customer orders.
Real World Exploration: Computer Science Challenges
Your Voice is Power
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Make beats. Learn code. Promote equity.
Your Voice is Power is a project-based curriculum and national remix competition that introduces the fundamentals of computer science to students through an exploration of music and social change.
Built in collaboration with Pharrell Williams’ education nonprofit YELLOW, this one-week program challenges students to express their own voice, write code using Georgia Tech’s EarSketch platform, and create an original song remix that promotes equity.
Your Voice is Power is a project-based curriculum and national remix competition that introduces the fundamentals of computer science to students through an exploration of music and social change.
Built in collaboration with Pharrell Williams’ education nonprofit YELLOW, this one-week program challenges students to express their own voice, write code using Georgia Tech’s EarSketch platform, and create an original song remix that promotes equity.
Real World Exploration: Computer Science Challenges
Hour of AI with Alexa
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Create out-of-this-world Alexa Skills with students in an hour!
We’re inviting all US high school teachers to teach an Hour of AI with Amazon’s Alexa! To support this, we’ve built three lessons designed to blow your students away!
Any student (ages 14+) can learn to code their own space-themed Alexa skills on MIT App Inventor - no Amazon device required. As they code, students meet Amazon experts and uncover the basic mechanics of voice artificial intelligence systems.
We’re inviting all US high school teachers to teach an Hour of AI with Amazon’s Alexa! To support this, we’ve built three lessons designed to blow your students away!
Any student (ages 14+) can learn to code their own space-themed Alexa skills on MIT App Inventor - no Amazon device required. As they code, students meet Amazon experts and uncover the basic mechanics of voice artificial intelligence systems.
Computer Science Courses and Educator Benefits
Teacher of the Year Award
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The Amazon Future Engineer Teacher of the Year Awards celebrate all-star teachers who are working diligently to help students in underserved and underrepresented communities discover all the possibilities computer science and robotics bring for the future.
Award recipients will be formally recognized by Amazon and will receive $25,000 to expand computer science and/or robotics education at their school, plus an additional $5,000 cash award.
Award recipients will be formally recognized by Amazon and will receive $25,000 to expand computer science and/or robotics education at their school, plus an additional $5,000 cash award.
Computer Science Courses and Educator Benefits
Computer Science Courses - Training and Curriculum
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Computer Science Learning Childhood to Career
We provide free computer science curriculum and teacher training to schools. Each offering is standards-aligned, culturally responsive, and requires no prior coding experience. Anyone can teach these courses. Sign up today to help broaden access to careers in technology!
We provide free computer science curriculum and teacher training to schools. Each offering is standards-aligned, culturally responsive, and requires no prior coding experience. Anyone can teach these courses. Sign up today to help broaden access to careers in technology!
Scholarships & Internships
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Amazon Future Engineer students can boost their future for themselves and their community with the support of college funding worth $40,000 ($10,000/year) towards an undergraduate degree in engineering or computer science.
Scholarships & Internships
Paid Internship
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In addition to a $40,000 scholarship, Amazon Future Engineer students also receive an offer to complete a summer internship at Amazon!
While working at Amazon, AFE interns work embedded on a software or hardware engineering team and pair up with a co-intern, manager, and mentors to build projects that have a real impact on Amazon customers. Interns get to work on some of Amazon’s groundbreaking technologies and core platforms, like Alexa voice technology, Amazon Web Services, and the Amazon retail platform. At the end of the summer, most interns ship production-level code to Amazon.
While working at Amazon, AFE interns work embedded on a software or hardware engineering team and pair up with a co-intern, manager, and mentors to build projects that have a real impact on Amazon customers. Interns get to work on some of Amazon’s groundbreaking technologies and core platforms, like Alexa voice technology, Amazon Web Services, and the Amazon retail platform. At the end of the summer, most interns ship production-level code to Amazon.
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What makes our program unique?
We lead efforts to improve computer science education on two fronts. First, we invest in the education system to make computer science and STEM careers more accessible to students from underserved communities and those with underrepresented identities in the tech industry. Next, we hold our role as a large tech company to support students with $10 million in annual scholarships — a 4-year, $40,000 scholarship paired with a guaranteed internship after freshman year in college for 250 students each year.
Why are we doing this?
Anyone deserves access to a high paying job, and the education required to get there. Too many young people are denied access by virtue of educational barriers experienced early in life persisting to career. We seek to address these barriers in cases where we can do the most good. We bring Amazon’s unique assets to bear if it will help young people, and we also lift up the nonprofits they, their parents, and their teachers in their community trust. At the end of the day, we seek to help young people thrive in their community—both now and in future generations.
What do we want to change?
Most public elementary and high schools, particularly in underserved and underrepresented communities, do not offer computer science classes. Despite this, trends show that computer science job openings are on the rise and unfortunately there are not enough graduates with the skills to apply for those jobs.
But with a quality computer science education linked to real-world career exposure and job opportunity, we can help young people unleash their potential and their creativity to become the future engineers that will change the world.
But with a quality computer science education linked to real-world career exposure and job opportunity, we can help young people unleash their potential and their creativity to become the future engineers that will change the world.
Who can sign up for Amazon Future Engineer programs?
Students, teachers, school administrators, and parents/guardians who believe in the power of computer science and are hungry to learn new tools to make a real change in their community. Join our mailing list below or sign up on this website.
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Contact Us
Public Relations
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Questions about AFE
If you don’t find the answer you were looking for, write to afe-contact@amazon.com and we will gladly clarify any questions regarding our programs.