{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","contentId":"0000016e-4005-d9ac-a5ff-5abf3d830002","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/community/6-ways-to-get-involved-with-this-is-engineering-day","headline":"6 ways to get involved with This Is Engineering Day","description":"On Wednesday 6th November, Amazon is supporting This Is Engineering Day – an exciting annual campaign that brings engineering to life for young people around the country. Here’s how you can get involved.","datePublished":"2019-11-06T12:04:15.991Z","dateModified":"2019-11-06T12:04:15.991Z","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Amazon staff"}],"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/0f5999b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2700x1800+0+0/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F75%2F21%2F787592f0464ba62a7dd1663f011a%2Fjenni-falconer-and-daughter-ella-learn-to-code-robots-in-a-free-robotics-workshop-from-amazon-future-engineer-18.JPG","width":"300","height":"200"},"articleBody":"![Mother and daughter at Amazon's Future Engineer event, learning how to code with mini robots on a personalised grid. There are coloured pens on the desk.](https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/0f5999b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2700x1800+0+0/resize/300x200!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F75%2F21%2F787592f0464ba62a7dd1663f011a%2Fjenni-falconer-and-daughter-ella-learn-to-code-robots-in-a-free-robotics-workshop-from-amazon-future-engineer-18.JPG)\n\n# 6 ways to get involved with This Is Engineering Day\n\n*On Wednesday 6th November, Amazon is supporting This Is Engineering Day – an exciting annual campaign that brings engineering to life for young people around the country. Here’s how you can get involved.*\n\n[This is Engineering Day](https://www.raeng.org.uk/education/this-is-engineering/this-is-engineering-day-6-november-2019) is a campaign led by the Royal Academy of Engineering in collaboration with [EngineeringUK](https://www.engineeringuk.com/) that aims to show more young people what engineering really looks like – and why it can be a rewarding career path.\nThe day is an exciting example of industry, educators and government working hand-in-hand to ensure we’re challenging stereotypes and providing real-life examples of engineering in action.\n\nThat’s important because the UK faces a major shortfall in engineering skills. For example, [new research commissioned by Amazon](https://amazonuk.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-future-engineer-launches-uk-help-children-and-young) shows that the UK needs on average 21,000 more computer science graduates every year – or the economy could lose up to £33bn per year by 2030. In addition, EngineeringUK estimates the UK is short of [59,000 engineering graduates and technicians to fill core engineering roles each year](https://www.engineeringuk.com/media/1641/7505_infographic_leaflet_2018_web.pdf).\n\nAt Amazon, we know that careers in engineering are incredibly varied and rewarding. We want to play our part by overhauling perceptions of what engineering looks like and attracting future engineers into the profession – no matter what their background is or their start in life.\n\nThat’s why we launched [Amazon Future Engineer](https://www.amazonfutureengineer.co.uk/) in the UK this year, a comprehensive childhood-to-career programme that aims to inspire, educate and enable children and young adults to try computer science. Amazon Future Engineer includes free robotics workshops and fulfilment centre tours for primary schools, teacher training and funding for secondary schools, plus bursaries and apprenticeships for post-18 education. The programme is set to reach more than one million children and young people across the UK over the next two years.\n\nSo if you’re keen to get involved with This Is Engineering Day, here are a few ideas.\n\nAlexa users will now be able to find out more about engineering careers and This Is Engineering Day with a few simple utterances such as:\n\n“What does an engineer look like?” \n“When is This is Engineering Day?”\n“How can I get involved with This is Engineering?”\n“Tell me about This is Engineering Day.”\n\nWhether you’re a teacher, a young learner or a student in higher education, there are plenty of ways to take advantage of Amazon Future Engineer.\n\nFor [primary schools](https://www.amazonfutureengineer.co.uk/primary), free robotics workshops and fulfilment centre tours are available. In [secondary schools](https://www.amazonfutureengineer.co.uk/programmes/secondary), we’re working with [Teach First](https://www.teachfirst.org.uk/) to provide funding for specialist teacher training on careers and computer science. And in [post-18 education](https://www.amazonfutureengineer.co.uk/programmes/apprenticeships-and-bursaries), bursaries and apprenticeships are available around the UK.\n\nVisit the [Amazon Future Engineer homepage](https://www.amazonfutureengineer.co.uk/) to get started.\n\nSee the magic that happens after you click ‘buy’ on Amazon.co.uk by touring one of our Fulfilment Centres and seeing first-hand how we deliver for our customers.\n\nAmazon Fulfilment is where our employees, technology and innovation come together every day to delight customers. Fulfilment Centre tours are available at eight locations in England and Scotland.\n\n[Follow the link](https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/amazon-fulfilment/tour-an-amazon-fulfilment-centre) to find out more and to book for yourself or for groups of up to ten people.\n\nHour of Code from Code.org is a global campaign supported by over 400 partners and 200,000 educators worldwide from the 9th-15th of December. The campaign reaches tens of millions of students in 180+ countries through a one-hour introduction to computer science and programming.\n\nAs part of Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon has helped to create an interactive dance-themed online coding tutorial [Hour of Code: Dance Party](https://code.org/dance), featuring songs from leading artists. The online tutorial is expected to reach one million children in the UK by the end of 2021. And one hour of learning through Hour of Code is [shown](https://code.org/about/evaluation/hourofcode) to have a positive impact on students, with a significant increase in the number of students saying they like computer science and perform better in computer science tasks.\n\nGet involved with [Hour of Code: Dance Party](https://code.org/dance) today.\n\nIn support of This Is Engineering, experts at The Royal Academy have curated a list of engineering-themed books to raise awareness of the breadth of engineering careers available to young people.\n\nWhether you’re looking for guidance on your own career, supporting a young person as they plan their career path or just looking for inspiration – this list will help to spark that passion.\n\nThe list includes classic texts from Isaac Asimov and H.G. Wells, plus exciting new books from authors like Chris Hadfield and Satya Nadella.\n\nTo find out more, [visit our curated books list.](https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/browse.html?node=19901953031)\n\nThere’s a whole host of ways for you to support This Is Engineering Day on 6th November.\n\nDiscover what engineers and engineering really looks like by following [@thisisengineering on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/thisisengineering/).\n\nYou can also [check out their website](https://www.thisisengineering.org.uk/) to see how young engineers are shaping the modern world – from bath bombs to robotics, music and sustainable farming. Watch the stories to understand how those engineers built exciting careers around their interests.\n\nTo help change the way engineers are represented, visit the [This Is Engineering image library](https://www.flickr.com/photos/thisisengineering/) for a selection of free-to-use images that reflect the reality of engineering – it’s not just about white coats and hard hats!\n\nVisit the [This Is Engineering homepage](https://www.thisisengineering.org.uk/)to find out more.","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"About Amazon","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com","sameAs":["https://x.com/amazonnews","https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon","https://www.instagram.com/amazonnews"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/bd/8f/88e7b0314cc2bd05b9de3155a0fe/amazon-news.svg"},"parentOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon","url":"https://www.amazon.com","sameAs":["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3884","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)","https://x.com/Amazon"]}}}