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Amazon To Fund CS Classes in Over 130 NYC High Schools (techcrunch.com)
Amazon announced today a plan to fund computer science classes in more than 130 New York City area high schools. Specifically, Amazon will fund both introductory and Advanced Placement (AP) classes across all five NYC boroughs, including more than 30 schools in Queens, near its new headquarters. From a report: The courses will be supported by the Amazon Future Engineer program, whose stated goal is 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.
The funding for the New York area schools will cover preparatory lessons, tutorials and professional development for teachers, says Amazon, as well as offer sequenced and paced digital curriculum for students, and live online support for both teachers and students. All participating students will also receive a free membership to AWS Educate, which offers free computing power in the AWS Cloud for coding projects.
The funding for the New York area schools will cover preparatory lessons, tutorials and professional development for teachers, says Amazon, as well as offer sequenced and paced digital curriculum for students, and live online support for both teachers and students. All participating students will also receive a free membership to AWS Educate, which offers free computing power in the AWS Cloud for coding projects.
No thanks, there are plenty of resources for learning to code that don't have the taint of Amazons grinding on it.
Amazon, we don't want you to run a non profit, we don't want you to involve yourself in our schools. we want you to pay taxes so that we the people can decide what to do with the tax revenue.
Yes because I'm sure the kid that was going to be an "autobody specialist" otherwise will make a FABULOUS developer.
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Teachers paid through theft are not sufficiently accountable.
Education and computers - keep it consistent slashdot!
When IGW makes shit up and presents no numbers to back it up, you can safely disregard the apologist faggot for the hoarding of the 0.001%, like all Republican traitors he sees no danger in concentrations like that. Pity the fool.
He thinks Donald Trump is a blue collar friend of his, lol. He thinks Mnuchin has his best interests at heart. Pity this fucking moron.
They won't hire anyone from these schools, unless they also get University degrees. But they will be happy that this will drive down the average salaries across the country. The lowest payers, will get to pay even less for software.
Journalists might want to acctually attend some of these clas&÷×[*$,squwaaasrk!!$&$&/;
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
What's your position on the link between pizzagate and chemtrails?
Having former high-school football stars drive around in a giant red truck is a dumb solution for fire safety.
The only way you'd get me to pay for such a stupid idea is by stealing the money from me to pay for it.
Public education (at least in terms of CS) controlled by and/or beholden to private entities. Pretty dumb and pretty sure that was never the intention for public education.
It's an Op-ed discussing one theory. Get a grip, you're almost as bad as IGW pretending this was a real fact.
Get them hooked when they're young and they'll never look somewhere else. For an example, see all the crazy Target people and the people addicted to the smell of Tide.
If they were doing this out of the goodness of their hearts it wouldn't be based on a bunch of Amazon services.
...that they are wasting it in NYC schools...could have offered it to many more area where it would do more good.