Amazon and Discovery Education Partner To Help Students Explore Cutting-Edge Careers and Technology

CHARLOTTE, NC / ACCESSWIRE / February 21, 2024 / Amazon and Discovery Education today announced a new partnership bringing Amazon Career Tours to classrooms nationwide. Amazon Career Tours offers free and interactive resources aligned to learning standards exploring the cutting-edge careers of the future by showcasing the innovative people and technology behind Amazon's innovations.

Designed for students in grades K-12, Amazon Career Tours features comprehensive educator resources and ready-to-use (RTU) activities. Current RTUs include:

• Space Innovation Tour: Students explore NASA's Orion spacecraft used in the Artemis I test flight and learn about the many careers necessary to advance the space program. In this RTU, students meet with professionals from Amazon Future Engineer, Lockheed Martin, and Cisco as they develop the next phase in human space exploration.
• Robotics Fulfillment Center Tour: Educators take students on a virtual tour of the Amazon Fulfillment Center and discover how humans and robots are working together to ensure that the products purchased online reach their final destinations efficiently and without damage. The interactive tour offers a standards-aligned look at the careers available in robotics and fulfillment.
• AWS Data Center Tour - Uncovering Cloud Computing: Students tour an AWS data center to learn from the ground up how the cloud is built, maintained, and connected to billions of devices and people every single day.
• AWS Data Center Tour - Keeping Data Safe: Students learn from cybersecurity experts, engineers, and other STEM experts to discover how big data keeps people and the planet safe.

Amazon Career Tours features additional resources to ensure lasting learning, including a key student learning guide that aids educators in navigating the career tours and explains key terms and ideas, and a student note catcher that captures the essential learnings of each activity. Accompanying educator guides feature materials such as background information, activities, and check-ins to make it simple for educators to incorporate the content into any lesson plan or learning environment.

"This current generation of K-12 students will soon enter a fast-changing workforce in need of innovative thinkers. Now is the time to help young people explore and prepare for how next-gen technologies will create new and enhance existing roles in the workplace of tomorrow," said Victor Reinoso, Global Director of Education Philanthropy at Amazon.