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Constructing on the work that we and our companions have been doing for a few years, Amazon is committing as much as $100 million in cloud expertise and technical assets to assist present, devoted studying organizations attain extra learners by creating new and revolutionary digital studying options, all as a part of the AWS Training Fairness Initiative.
The Work So Far
AWS and Amazon have a long-standing dedication to studying and schooling. Right here’s a sampling of what we’ve got already carried out:
AWS AI & ML Scholarship Program – This program has awarded $28 million in scholarships to roughly 6000 college students.
Machine Studying College – MLU affords a free program serving to group faculties and Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities (HBCUs) educate knowledge administration, synthetic intelligence, and machine studying ideas. This system is designed to deal with alternative gaps by supporting college students who’re traditionally underserved and underrepresented in expertise disciplines.
Amazon Future Engineer – Since 2021, as much as $46 million in scholarships has been awarded to 1150 college students by means of this program. Prior to now yr, greater than 2.1 million college students acquired over 17 million hours of STEM schooling, literacy, and profession exploration programs by means of this and different Amazon philanthropic teaching programs in the US. I used to be in a position to converse to 1 such session final yr and it was an incredible expertise:
Free Cloud Coaching – In late 2020 we set a objective of serving to 29 million individuals develop their tech expertise with free cloud computing coaching by 2025. We labored exhausting and met that concentrate on a yr forward of time!
There’s Extra To Do
Regardless of all of this work and progress, there’s nonetheless extra to be carried out. The longer term is certainly not evenly distributed: over half a billion college students can’t be reached by digital studying as we speak.
We consider that Generative AI can amplify the nice work that socially-minded edtech organizations, non-profits, and governments are already doing. Our objective is to empower them to construct new and revolutionary digital studying programs that may amplify their work and permit them to succeed in an even bigger viewers.
With the launch of the AWS Training Fairness Initiative, we wish to assist pave the best way for the subsequent era of expertise pioneers as they construct highly effective instruments, prepare basis fashions at scale, and create AI-powered instructing assistants.
We’re committing as much as $100 million in cloud expertise and complete technical advising over the subsequent 5 years. The awardees can have entry to the portfolio of AWS providers and technical experience in order that they will construct and scale studying administration programs, cellular apps, chatbots, and different digital studying instruments. As a part of the applying course of, candidates will likely be requested to exhibit how their proposed answer will profit college students from underserved and underrepresented communities.
As I discussed earlier, our companions are already doing quite a lot of nice work on this space. For instance:
Code.org has already used AWS to scale their free laptop science curriculum to hundreds of thousands of scholars in additional than 100 international locations. With this initiative, they are going to increase their use of Amazon Bedrock to supply an automatic evaluation of scholar initiatives, liberating up educator time that may be use for particular person instruction and tailor-made studying.
Rocket Studying focuses on early childhood schooling in India. They’ll use Amazon Q in QuickSight to boost studying outcomes for greater than three million youngsters.
I’m tremendous enthusiastic about this initiative and look ahead to seeing the way it will assist to create and educate the subsequent era of expertise pioneers!
— Jeff;