Scholarships & Internships:
Pathways to Your Career Toolkit

On the tour, students will meet current and former Amazon Interns who will talk about their experience as an intern. Students will learn what it’s like to intern at a tech company, debunk myths about internships, learn about office culture, get tips for the application process, and more!

To learn more, visit the Internship Tour Toolkit and download the student learnings document.

Scholarships & Internships: Pathways to Your Career is aligned to the following CSTA standard:

• 2-CS-02 Design projects that combine hardware and software components to collect and exchange data.
  
  Concepts: Computing Systems
  Subconcept: Hardware & Software
  Practices: Creating
  

The tour is aligned to the following International Society for Technology in Education standards:

• Empowered Learner: - 1.1a Learning Goals - Students set learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process to improve learning outcomes.
• Empowered Learner - 1.1b Customized Learning Environments - Students build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
• Digital Citizen - 1.2.b Online Interactions - Students demonstrate empathetic, inclusive interactions online and use technology to responsibly contribute to their communities.
• Global Collaborator - 1.7.a Global Connections - Students use digital tools to connect with peers from a variety of backgrounds recognizing diverse viewpoints and broadening mutual understanding.
• Global Collaborator - 1.7.b Multiple Viewpoints- Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts and community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.
• Global Collaborator - 1.7.c Project Teams - Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.
• Knowledge Constructor - 3a.Students use effective research strategies to find resources that support their learning needs, personal interests and creative pursuits.
• Knowledge Constructor: 1.3.a Effective Research Strategies - Students use effective research strategies to find resources that support their learning needs, personal interests and creative pursuits.
• Creative Communicator: 1.6.a Choose Platforms or Tools - Students choose the appropriate platforms and digital tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The tour, and all materials included in the accompanying Teacher Toolkit, are provided to teachers at no cost. You do not need a paid Kahoot! account to take the tour - sign up for a free teacher account on Kahoot! or utilize the solo play links on our website to play completely free.

The Scholarships & Internships: Pathway to Your Career tour is designed to take 40 minutes (~1 class period).

We recommend the tour for students in grade 8 and above. The tour includes content accessible to each grade and teachers can use the Teacher Toolkit to adjust learning how they see fit.

Teachers of students below grade 8 may preview the tour using solo play to determine if it is appropriate for their students.

Yes. For Kahoot!, you can either share your screen and students play on their own devices, share your screen and students play together as a class, or assign the Kahoot! to your students to complete individually.

We do not collect personal student information on the tour. If a teacher does have a Kahoot! accounts, they can assign the tour to their students to track their students’ progress, but individuals’ information is not shared with Amazon. During the tour, students will answer poll questions about their intent to persist in careers in STEM and their overall satisfaction with the tour. These questions are multiple choice and do not collect any PII from students.

Yes, absolutely. Individuals can access the tour through the Solo Play or Tour Independently links. Teachers may also assign the tour to students to play through Kahoot! and track their students’ data.

We apologize for the inconvenience. Videos are embedded from YouTube, and if blocked by a firewall, will appear as black screens or not play. If your school has YouTube blocked, please have them whitelist the links to each video in the tour.

Please reach out to afe-contact@amazon.com for any questions.