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Amazon To Fund Computer Science Classes at 1,000 US High Schools (geekwire.com)
Amazon said its Future Engineer program will fund computer science classes at more than 1,000 high schools in all 50 states by this fall. From a report: This is a rapid expansion for the program that launched in November. Down the road, Amazon aims to reach more than 10 million kids with the coding activities and lessons each year and provide more than 100,000 students in more than 2,000 high schools access to introductory or advanced computer science courses. As part of the program, Amazon also plans to award 100 students with four-year, $10,000 scholarships and paid internships at the company to gain work experience. Future Engineer is part of a larger $50 million investment from Amazon in computer science and STEM education.
Did they happen to indicate the quota distribution for the various groups of people that need to be catered to?
For example - of the 1000 high schools, how many of them are targeted to be primarily or majority black kids? What about hispanic kids? How many of them will be affluent schools?
Did they release how many gay children will receive scholarships or internships?
How many of the students will be female, or female-like in gender?
Lastly - what we really want to know, are they going to exclude Asian and white kids from receiving scholarships or internships, since, you know, they're already over-represented in the useful arts?