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.
Career Tours are free, interactive virtual field trips that inspire students to pursue careers of the future by exploring Amazon’s technologies and real people in these careers today. Tour whenever, wherever on Kahoot!
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 resources.
Amazon Future Engineer students can boost their future for themselves and their community with the support of college funding, paid internships, and industry mentors.
We invest in research to uncover gaps and identify solutions to help students in their education or career journey.
Why Amazon Future Engineer?
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!
Amazon Web Services: Uncovering Cloud Computing Tour
How did we go from renting movies in a box to streaming from anywhere at anytime? Discover how computer science and people work together to bring you your favorite content through AWS Data Centers.
Amazon Web Services: Keeping Data Safe and Sustainable Tour
You run out of space on your phone, so you want to backup your data to the cloud. But is it safe? Is it sustainable? Learn about how A protects your data from various threats, while minimizing impact on the environment, and the people that make this technology happen.
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.
Amazon Web Services: Uncovering Cloud Computing Tour
How did we go from renting movies in a box to streaming from anywhere at anytime? Discover how computer science and people work together to bring you your favorite content through AWS Data Centers.
Amazon Web Services: Keeping Data Safe and Sustainable Tour
You run out of space on your phone, so you want to backup your data to the cloud. But is it safe? Is it sustainable? Learn about how A protects your data from various threats, while minimizing impact on the environment, and the people that make this technology happen.
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: 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
Alexa Skills Inventor
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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
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!
Computer Science Curriculum and Training
Teacher Ambassador Program - Teacher Fellowship
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Teacher Ambassador Program
Teachers from across the country are selected and recognized annually for a two-year cohort experience with curated professional development and industry access to Amazon to advance equity in computer science.
Teachers from across the country are selected and recognized annually for a two-year cohort experience with curated professional development and industry access to Amazon to advance equity in computer science.
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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Amazon Future Engineer Around The World
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.