AWS Educate announces its inaugural Student Ambassador cohort

Today, AWS Educate announced the first cohort for the AWS Educate Student Ambassador Program. The AWS Educate Student Ambassador Program provides student leaders from around the world the opportunity to gain real-life experience while helping their peers gain valuable Amazon Web Services (AWS) technical skills to develop successful cloud careers.

AWS Educate Student Ambassadors will receive a host of benefits that will help them gain the professional skills needed for today’s competitive job market. They will have access to AWS experts through regular webinars and guest talks. They will influence AWS products and marketing, receive mentorship and career advice from AWS employees, and hone their professional skills by participating in speaking and training opportunities.

Throughout the academic year, AWS Educate Student Ambassadors also support AWS-related activities on campus, such as delivering presentations, identifying student-led startups, and participating in hackathons.

AWS Educate Student Ambassadors are selected annually and represent a diverse group of students. Through a competitive process that showcased member academic and extracurricular accomplishments, the selected inaugural cohort contains 326 members from over 50 countries and more than 250 higher education institutions. Read the full list of the 2020 AWS Educate Student Ambassadors.

Thank you to all AWS Educate student members who applied and congratulations to the inaugural AWS Educate Student Ambassador Program cohort. Learn more about AWS Educate and the AWS Educate Student Ambassador Program.