WHY IN THE NEWS?

• E-commerce major Amazon India has announced the launch of Amazon Future Engineer, its global computer science education programme in India.
• The programme will enable access to quality computer science education and career opportunities for students from underrepresented and underserved communities.
• In the first year of its launch, Amazon aims to enable and deliver learning opportunities to more than 1 lakh students from 900 government and aided schools across seven states in India.
• Amazon Future Engineer programme in India will focus on the students of 6-12 class and it will also provide training to teachers for teaching computer science in a more engaging way.
• Amazon is running this kind of programme in the US, the UK, Canada, and France.