{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","contentId":"00000161-e70b-dee8-a16d-efebaef60001","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.co.uk/news/innovation/innovation-for-the-next-generation-prime-air-lab-tours","headline":"Innovation for the next generation: Prime Air lab tours","description":"We opened the doors of our Prime Air development centre in Cambridge to local school children, to help engage and inspire the next generation of innovators.","datePublished":"2017-06-20T13:12:33Z","dateModified":"2017-06-20T13:12:33Z","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Amazon staff"}],"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/c8f85ce/2147483647/strip/true/crop/5760x2880+0+480/resize/1200x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.aboutamazon.com%2F90%2Fa9%2F7ae2d55a4eeaa596e10f37a184f6%2Famazon-cambridge-6-004.JPG","width":"1200","height":"600"},"articleBody":"# Innovation for the next generation: Prime Air lab tours\n\n*Prime Air is a delivery system designed to safely get parcels to customers in 30 minutes or less using drones.*\n\nWe recently opened the doors of our Prime Air development centre in Cambridge to local school children, to help engage and inspire the next generation of innovators.\n\nPrime Air is a delivery system designed to safely get parcels to customers in 30 minutes or less using drones.\n\nOn this exclusive tour, students saw how 3D printing has helped the team iterate quickly on designs, learned about sense-and-avoid technology through a flight simulator and had the opportunity to fly mini drones in a flight cage.\n\n“The kids’ reaction was brilliant,” said Elizabeth Oxborough, Lead Engineering Teacher of 3-5 years at St. Faith’s Cambridge school. “It’s a new type of engineering and very relevant to them, which is exciting.”\n\nThe team love having schoolchildren come and visit and share what they’re working on. James Thomas, who’s a Flight Support Engineer for Amazon Prime Air and a tour leader, said: “Seeing the children inspired by the experience is always rewarding. I was inspired by technology when I was their age so it’s great to help pass that along.”\n\nThe Prime Air lab tours aim to inspire more students into STEM careers by showing various stages of drone development and robotics innovation.\n\nClick [here](https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Prime-Air/b?node=8037720011) to learn more about Prime Air.","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"]}}}