Amazon Future Engineer is a comprehensive childhood-to-career programme that inspires, educates and enables young people from lower-income backgrounds to realise their potential in computer science.
Since its launch in 2019, Amazon Future Engineer has forged relationships with organisations such as Teach First and the Royal Academy of Engineering to address issues identified as barriers for entry in STEM fields for children and young adults from underserved backgrounds. The programme is estimated to have reached over 190,000 students from lower-income backgrounds through its wider engagement and initiatives by the close of 2021.
Women are still significantly underrepresented in engineering and technology. Last year, Amazon, the Royal Academy of Engineering and BecomingX launched a film series called
‘Engineering Heroes’ which profiled pioneering women engineers Dame Stephanie Shirley CH DBE FREng, Ursula Burns FREng, and Professor Sue Black OBE to challenge public perception of engineering as well as inspire the next generation of young people, from all genders, ethnicities and parts of society.
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